The mail for the Grey, liokitika, and Melbourne, per G-ofchenburg, closes at 5 p.m. tomorrow. The only mail for England this month will be that via Suez, which will leave Nelson on Wednesday, the 15th instant ; no steamer for Panama will leave before the Bth of September. A siugular phenomenon is noticed as follows by the Lachlan , Reporter of the 9th inst.:— There was a shower of mud in Forbes oh the afternoon of Sunday, the Ist inst., at about 4 o'clock. .It was immediately after a slight shower of rain, and. while the wind was blowing very fresh. The splashes that fell upon the ground y/ere of a brown : color, and they came down in drops about the size of large rain-drops. It was not continuous, but seemed more like the bursting of "a mud ball m the air. I was about 200, yards from the lagoon, and it was impossible to have .; been taken there by human agency.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 134, 9 August 1866, Page 2
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160Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 134, 9 August 1866, Page 2
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