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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18455, 17 January 1922, Page 6

At 20 minutes past 2 this mornins; the City T"ire Brigade received a call to No. 20 Forbes street, Mornington, whore a fourroomed wooden house, owned by Mr Schofield, of Chain Hills, and occupied by Mr iScouHar and his family, was on fire. The fire spread rapidly, and the building was practically a total loss. The furniture was irWured for £2OO in the Yorkshire offico, but it is not known what the insurances ■wore on the house. Texas there is an abandoned well'about 60ft . deep, and overgrown with vegetation, / ■which is noted for its musical powers, m fine weather; it is said, particularly with.a westerly wind, it Rives forth a sound like ,that of an aeolian harp, swelling find dying ' away by trim's. When a heavy northerly ■wind 18 blowing the water rises within a few feet of the top, and strange noises, which some persons think resemble moans. ' iesne from the old well. An attempt to fill up r the well a few years ago failed, apparently because of the existence of a subterranean oavfty, which swallowed up the dirt aa fast as it was dumped in. Bound the world in ' 408 hours, at a cost of £6BO, will soon be poeaible by connecting up different aerial routes. The twual time for the trip 7 by land and water a rectoaed a* M