Some excitement was caused in the neighborhood of the City Hotel on Saturday night through the blinds in the window of the Indian Tea Depot catching fire from the gas jet?. The assistants in the shop speedily tore them down, and very little damage was done, though the manager got severely bun.ed about the hands and arms.
The Victorian Government have accepted the tender of Mr Pain, an English pyrotechnist, for tho supply of 10,000 sounding rockets required by the lighthouse service of that Colony. In the first contract (says the ‘ Telegraph’) Mr Pain will bo permitted to import the rockets, as ho would not have time to send Home for machinery and erect a factory so as to supply the immediate demand for rockets for the supply of the lighthouses. In future contracts, however, it will be a stipulation that the rockets be made in the Colony. The acceptance of this contract will enable the Department to effect a largo saving in the purchase of rockets, and it is confidently expected that when Mr Pain’s factory is in full swing in tho Colony the cost will ho still further reduced.
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Evening Star, Issue 7166, 21 March 1887, Page 3
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