Twenty-two Italian cities now have crematory furnaces. A very deep well is being sunk at White Plains, Nevada, on what they call the forty-mile desert, in the neighbourhood ot the sink of the Humboldt. A record of the progress of this well will be of interest to many persons. They have found salt water, . hot water, and finally, at a depth of 1650 ft, - they came across wood. Some labourers while engaged in pulling down a stack of straw at Lymne discovered • a sack of tea, tobacco, and other articles » The articles were the proceeds of a robbery .-. committed eight months ago. .'Although, the missing property could' not- then be found, the men charged with the" robbery were convicted and - sentenced to penal servitude for fifteen years.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 7484, 25 February 1885, Page 3
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