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The Montreal papers of Wednesday furnish the following intelligence of the progress of this traveller on his errand of humanity— ‘` On Monday last two canoes, manned by voyageurs of the Honourable Hudson's Bay Company, arrived at Lachine from the interior. By these letters have been received from Captain Back, dated the 19th of June, from Jack River, a small depot and trading post of the Company, at the north-west extremity of Lake Dumioique, in which Captain Back reports himself and party in excellent health. He also expresses himself much satisfied with the arrangements made and zeal manifested in the interior to facilitate the object of the expedition. ‘The following is verbatim :—* As the season is fast advancing I purpose to pro ceed immediately in a light canoe to find out the Thileuciche, and also to select a wintering station, which may be effected before or by the time my heavy barges reach the Athabasca, and by this means they will be enabled to come on direct to the end of their journey.’ —New York Papers, Aug. 20. A fearful accident happened near the Ret Bull public-house, between Dudley and Oldbury, on Saturday last, by the explosion of gas in a coal pit. It is melancholy to relate that no fewer than 13 men have thus met with an untimely death. . The pit, although very deep, sent up the flames through the shaft as from the mouth of a chimney on fre.—Wolver hampton Chronicle.
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Albion and the Star
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Sep 13, 1833
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