ORMONDVILLE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3514, 12 October 1882, Page 3

ORMONDVILLE.

(from our own correspondent.) October 11, 1882. A very narrow escape from death by drowning occurred here last week to a child of Mr Grootne. A person going to Mr Groome's well to draw water discovered the body of the child, apparently lifeless, lying at the bottom. Assistance •was at once procured, and the child (a little one of only three years old) was brought to the surface, but life then appeared to be extinct. The remedies of the Royal Humane Society were tried perseveringly for some time, witb the result that the parents had the pleasure of having their child restored to them alive. Another accident caused by furious riding occurred last Sunday. Two young men were riding furiously from Norsewood towards Ormondville, 'and coming in the opposite direction was a trap, in which were seated the driver and two ladie?. The driver motioned to the horsemen to rein up, but they took no heed, and consequently they ran into the trap, upset the driver, and frightened the horse. The latter bolted along the road some distance, when it suddenly shied, capsizing the trap and injuring the two ladies very much. The two " jockeys " were summoned to appear before our E.M. to-day, and were severely reprimanded and fined 10s and costs, in each case amounting to 21s 6d. They had also £4 to pay for damage to the trap. The temperance people had a gala day y- yesterday. It appears that it was in honor of a visit of some grand officer with the bulk of the alphabet following his name. The proceedings commenced with a tea meeting in the Friendly Societies Hall, at which about eighty members sat down. After tea the company adjourned to the United Methodist Free Church, where an able address was delivered to a crowded house by Mr J. T. Smith, the head of the templar order in New Zealand. After the address one of the grand degrees of the order was conferred on twenty-five brothers and sisters. The company then sat down to a good supper, and dispersed at a late hour. During the meeting it was announced that one Eli Johnston, the greatest temperance orator of the day, would visit New Zealand next month to give a course of lectures on temperance.