gas explosiont: AT AUCKLAND POST OFFICE. SERIOUS DAMAGE DONE. If&USS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, September 7. An escape of gas in <the basement of the Post Office led to an explosion, which considerably damaged the .building and sldgMly injured lour employees. The troom in which, ihe explosion occurred! was wrecked, and the floor <ibove shaken &<$ violently that many employees were shaken off their seats. Many windows weiie smashed and doors twisted off tbeiT ihinges by the force of the "explosion. A small staircase was smashed, and a porJ tion of a brick wall in thie basement was I shaken down, while fhe main, wall was cracked. Fortunately the wreckage did not take fire. The damage was confined to that by explosion. The telegraph) and telephone circuits remained ximinjuried. DALGETY & CO., LTD.J WANGANUI. Head Oflßce— 96, Bishopsgate St. Within, London, E.C. Capital fully subscribed £4,000,000. Capital paid up £1,000,000. Reserve fund £140,000. Branches throughout Australia New Zealand. THE company is prepared to ADVANCE on approved pastoral properties and stock, the ensuing clip of wool, frozen meat, and other colonial produce, and to uidertake stock and station business generally, giving special attention to sales of farm properties, store and fat stock, etc. DAIRY PRODUCE. Consignments receive special attention and liberal advances made. We have first-class facilities for handling butter and cheese in London, charges on the lowest scale. WOOL. Received either for local sale or shipment to Lo- don. Complete stocks on band of all farmer's requisites. ■Grain, oats, wheat, etc., feed & seed. Agricultural seeds of all descriptions, quality and purity guaranteed. Woolpacks, cornsacks, and all kinds of merchandise. H. A FOYSTER, Representative, Taranaki. P.O. Box 93, Hawera. CHEAP - DAIRY FAKMS. — 270 ACRES, ELTHAM ROAD. £18 PER ACRE. ' £800 DOWN. Good 7 roomed house and outbuildings, 6 paddocks, on metalled road, i£ miles to town and factory. 160 ACRES, COAST LAND. £4 7s 6d PER ACRE. £150 DOWN. Native Lease, 9 j'ears at gd, 4 roomed house, e(c , on tre tailed road, J mile from school and factory. 100 ACRES, ELTHAM. £35 PER ACRE. £700 DOWN Good 8 roomed house, cowshed and outbuildings, well subdivided and highly improved, on metalled road, close to factory, within two miles of town. TWO WOOD SHEEP PROPERTIES. 600 'ACRES, .EAST ROAD. £5 PER ACRE. EASY TERMS. 500 acres in grass, two good 4 roomed houses, yards, etc., 3 miles froal'i railway -route,' 20 miles from Stratford, catty 2$ sheep per acre, or make good dairy farmsi ■ , 3300 ACRES, " ELTHAM. £2 15s PER ACRE. EASY TERMS. First-class partly improved sheep run, 700 acres in grass, 300 being felled, will carry 2$ sheep per acre, rapidly growing into money. Agent for Ccmme*cial Union Accident and Fire Assurance Co. Sole New Zealand Agent for the "Acme"' .Pulverising Harrows. Pi ices and particulars on application. , ■ . FRED. W. FRETHEY, " LAND AGBNT, c: ELTHAM. BLEIsNERMASSjETT AND '•vSONS,'; A TJCTIOtfEERF, LAND & FTNANJ\. CIAL AGEKTS, ELTHAM. ' J 33i, acres, good dairying land, house and sheds complete ; handy to good factory. Price reasonable. Terms, £250 cash. an acres, good dairy farm, all in grass, well fenced, good position, house and sheds. Lease for 4 years, at 25/ per acre. £350 cash will secure the good will of a small grazing farm of 140 acres, which is all in grass fenced, and sub divided, with very low purchasing cliuse. 350 acres, good dairying land, withn 1 mile town, railway, and factory, good house and sheds, orchard, e;c< Lease with right of purchase, got 5 or 7 years, at 17/6 per acre 200 acres of model dairy farm, every possible convenience, within 1 I mile from town, now carrying 80 cows and other stock. Price, /30. Terms arranged. 51 acres, nice suburban property, good 7 roomed house and sheds Complete, now grazing 25 cows. Price low. Terms exceptionally easy. Also, sheep farms of all sizes for sale and lease, town properties, etc. PREMIER ANTISEPTIC DENTIFRICE. White Pearly Teeth. Get it from EDWARDS
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9436, 7 September 1907, Page 8
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