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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 207, 28 October 1873, Page 7

The Bruce Herald reports that larks are now to be heard all over the Tokom&iriro Plain on sunny mornings. Miss Fanny Carandini had a narrow escape from being burned to death at Christchuroh on Friday evening last. The Press states that while she "was playing the accompaniment to one of the songs, the train of her dress was by some means swept into the gas of the footlights, and was in a blaze in an instant. A gentleman sitting in the front seats, on the alarm being given, with great presence of mind, sprang on the stage and extinguished the flames, Miss Fanny fortunately sustaining no injury beyond a fright." It will be seen by our Municipal Council report, that the subject of larrikinism in Queenstown, upon which we, have more than once commented, has significantly attracted the attention of the. authorities. We earnestly hope steps will be taken to put down a growing evil. On Sunday evenings it is positively disagreeable to pass through the main streets, owing to the crowd of boys and youths indulging in horseplay, and coarse expressions. The police might, we think, take etsps to put an end to this Mall.