The first sale of sections in the new township of Brighton, took place on Thursday last, at Messrs. Morse and Orbell's office, and was highly satisfactory, some of the sections realizing as high as £28 to £30, and averaging all round about £1(5. As a sample of the strange idea some correspondents entertain of the uses to which they should put newspaper editors, we may mention the receipt by last mail from Victoria, of a note enclosing a Victorian post stamp, and requesting us to advise the writer "of the scale of salaries ol National Teachers, and also of the Police force ot New Zealand." A party of miners had a most remarkable escape from death by lightning at Waipori on Friday last. Five or six men were together in a tent when the place was struck by lightning, and two dogs which were lying in the entrance were killed on the spot. Tinl, men were much shaken, and we understand that some of them were partially paralysed for the time, but none of them sustained any permanent injury. By way of Melbourne we have dates from the Mauritius to the 4th Dec. Cholera had broken out, and was causing some anxiety. Five cases had already been reported. In Western Australia they have offered £3000 for the discovery of a payable gold field. By the City of Hobart, which arrived on Saturday morning, we have files of Melbourne papers to January 20. The capital farce of the Loan of a Lover, and the laughable extravaganza of " Coiin, the youth who never saw a woman," have had a most successful run at the Music Hall during last week, and they continue to draw crowded houses. The extension of the Pelichet Bay Jetty is now being rapidly proceeded with. A large number of the piles for the new Stuart street jetty have also been laid down ready for driving, and the cutting away of the Octagon and formation of Stuart street still drag their slow length along under the hands oi'tlie hard-labor-men.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 68, 3 February 1862, Page 2
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