LOSS OF LIFE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1735, 9 January 1888, Page 2

LOSS OF LIFE.

[Per Press Association.] V Invbroargill, Jnnoary 8, The floods have done a considerable amount of damage throaghoat thU district, and unfortunately they have been accompanied by lots of human life. ' Frank Oaasldy, a aottler at Wray'a Bush", wag drowned on Thursday night m a oreek near the Aparlma. Oasitdjr bad been attending the funeral of a friend at Wiafou and «raa returning home, and just • few minutes before his own death, was the means of saving a man from drowning (a the Aparlma. It is supposed that he walked his horae into the oreek Instead of over a onlvert. He leaves a widow and fonr children. The golloe have been Informed that a man named Matthewaaa has been drowned m the Waikaisi district. A suspension bridge, which was ereoted over the Apatlma by the County Ooanoil about a year ago, and which was a great publlo convenience, has been swept away. | together with 30ft of embankment. The Nightcaps line, which cost a large sum to repair after a flood two years ago, is again badly damaged. Settlers of many years' residence say the flood In the Aparlma la the most extensive they have known. At Dlpton the township is submerged and gardens destroyed, and the residents have removed their farnltare. Large quantities of grass for seed were carried away. The weather ha* now oleared ap. Hollowat's Pitta.— Teachings of expert* enoe. — The united testimony of thousands, extending over more than forty years'; most strongly recommends these Pills as the boot purifiers, the mildest aperients, and the Barest restoratives. They never prove delusive, or give merely temporary relief, bat attaok all ailments of the stomaoh, lungs, heart, bead, and bowels m the only safe and legitimate way, by depurating' tha blood, and to eradicating 1 those imparities which are the souroe and constituent of almost every disease; Their meaioinal tiffioaoj is wonderful m renovating enfeebled ooastitions. Their aotion embraces all that is desirable m a household medioine. They expel every noxiouß and effete matter; and thus the strength ii nurtured and (be entrgutt Itimultitft . . ? "