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[pKR FSBBS ASSOCIATION, ] Fatal Accident. Auckland, To-day. - A tailor named McMastera was killed by falling from the rigging of the barque Himalaya in the harbor. Harbor Board Appointment. . A proposal will be made at the Harbor Board to-morrow to alter the constitution to enable k salary to be paid to a librarian. Tfce New Zealand Footballers. The Auckland .Rugby Union has telegraphed to Sydney inviting the representative team to return this way and play a match egtmiat Auckland. Discovered. The young man named Ferry, supposed to have,been devoured at Wairoa South by wild pigs, was found on the road in an apparently dying condition. It is believed that he was thrown from his horse. A Slander Action. It is understood that Mrs Patterson, landlady of the Fitzroy Hotel, intends to.proceed against Mr Newman, Chairman of the City East Licensing Committee, for slander in having skid that young girls were harbored in her house. Supreme Court. Napibb, To-day. - The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court opened to-day before Mr Justice Gillies. The calendar comprises two esses of housebreaking, two forgeries, two larcenies, one horsestealing, and one murder, the latter being the Ormondville tragedy care. William Emery for forgery . pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two yean. Edward Jones for forgery was found not guilty. A Steeplechase Meeting. ' Wellington, To day. Arrangements have been made between the Wellington Racing Club and the Island Bay Park Company to hold a steeplechase meeting ,at Island Bay immediately after the Napier meeting, which , cornea off on the 28th inst. The Victory. The steamer Victory sailed for London direct at nine this morning. The Wellington Divorce Case. Messrs Buckley, Stafford and Fitzher. bert have been retained for the defence in the Grey marriage suit. All the material allegations are domed. The Tranco Mail Service. The Government have received infor- ■ matron that it is probable the American Congress will grant a subsidy for the continuation of the San Francisco mail service.. Wahanni. Wahanni and his party arrived in town ibis morning. Fatal Fire. Chbistchuboh, To-day. The bouse of William Chesterfield, bootmaker, of -Springfield, was burnt down about six o'clock yesterday evening, and two children aged three and fi*«» ■ years were- burnt to death. ' Two ut luv elder children had been left in charge of the house while the parents went for a walk. ‘ The neighbors made every effort to rescue the deceased, but thy fire had obtained too a hold before they arrived. The origin of the fire is not yet known. « ' Vessels for New Zealand. ' The Now Zealand Shipping Company are aduised by cable message of the following vessels having sail 3d from and now ' loading at London for the different New Zealand ports: —For Lyttelton : Loading, Cingalese and Parepra. For Port Chalmers: Sailed, Hurunui; loadin, Ada Melmore. For Wellington : Sailed, Ganymede; leading; Orari. For Timaru: Loading, W. H. Watson and Asteria. the Dunedin, from the Bluff, has arrived in Londofi. A Reprimand. Dunedin, To-day. At the inquest on the child Stirling the evidence of the mother was tbat she gave ‘ the child to her six-year-old daughter to nurse while she went out and tidied np the shed in the back yard. On her return after an absence of ten,minutes she found the baby’s clothes on fire, and nearly all burnt. She dressed the child’s burns, but medical advice was not obtained. The jury returned irf-open verdict, and acting on their recommendation, the Coroner cautioned the mother for her inhumane and unmotherly conduct, informing her that bad there been much more evidence there would probably have been a verdict of inanelaughter against her.
T’ie following is a story of old Maori life ;—Returning once from Waimate to Kaitaia, when we got as far as MaungaTauiwhs—the great peak that towers over our western chain of hills—and encamped for the right, the natives put up a long shed of nikau for their own accommodation, and E had my tent. Later on in the evening I joined them at the fire. I found one of their number was suffering from colic, for which he was undergoing Maori treatment. They had laid him at the foot of a tree, which slanted upward, his legs on each aide of the trunk, somewhat in the form of the letter Y, or resembling a man’s first attempt at standing on his head. The middle of his stomach for a centre, and a radius of four inches round, they had described with a piece of charcoal The circle was supposed to enclose within it the seat of the malady, v.ith its surround iug influence; and within this magic circle the sympathising operators plied their truly unsparing eflorts, each one dealing a masterly blov> - ; followed by a lusty roar from the patient. But the colic appeared to be peculiarly obstinate, and, like a strong man armed, refused to capitulate, notwithstanding the redoubled efforts on the part of the medicals, who merited a better success for their unremitting zeal and perseverance in applying the remedy. It soon appeared that counter irritation was no match for violent colic. My skill was thereupon called to the rescue. My design was quickly formed to oust the enemy from within his fleehy battlements by administering a.good dose of rhubarb, which soon put the man to rights.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1275, 9 June 1884, Page 3
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879TELEGRAMS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1275, 9 June 1884, Page 3
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