A Man Killed, by an Old Shell Exploding.—

Taranaki Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 971, 30 March 1870, Page 6 (Supplement)

A Man Killed, by an Old Shell Exploding.—

The Tauranga correspondent of the Southern Cross writes on 22nd February, as follows :: — > " Just as I am retiring to rest, I am informed of the melancholy tidings, which will bring sorrow to the door of his friends, of a sad catastrophe which has just happened at the Gate pah to a man named John Burrows, who formerly belonged to the Armed Constabulary, hut who has recently joined the Thames Volunteer Corps, and who, by his own aot, and against the entreaties of friends, sot fire Lo an old Armstrong 111 b. loaded shell by laying a train of powder, the bursting of which took away a portion of his temple and skull, causing instantaneous death. As an in, quiry will be made into the cause of his death, I shall forbear commenting upon it until it is over, A gloom has again overoast the small community to which the deceased John Burrows belonged, and who would appear to be well and favourably known amongst the Armed Constabulary as a brave and daring character, who on one occasion scaled — when no other person would look at ifc — • the parapet at one of the fortifications of Tito Kowaru."

Auckland Harbour. — The Southern Cross saya — " In the Council, Mr. Buokland made a rather startling statement, which, however, we are afraid is only too true. The hon. member stated that Mr. Robert Graham, when Superintendent, spoilt the harbour of Auokland, and took £20,000 to do it. Mr. Buokland proceeded to point out how the making of the breakwater, filling in with stone, &c, had caused the ' silting up ;' and whether it be Mr. Graham's fault or anybody else's, the fact remains the same — that the harbour and wharf will require vigilant looking to, or they will eventually become next to useless. Day by day the harbour is filling up, and day by day the wharf is rotting away." Webley's Cloth Manufactory, Nelson. — An order has at length been definitely given to Webley's cloth manufactory, at Nelson, for 2,000 yards of grey tweed for the Armed Constabulary j the cloth to be supplied in quantities of not less than 500 yards a month. — Nelson Colonist. Death of an Old Settler in Wellington.— One of the oldest settlers of Wellington, Mr, Isaac Lovelock, died on the 6th February. H» came out in the ' Bolton' in 1840.