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Dunstan Times, Issue 887, 18 April 1879, Page 3

I A mother’s love! How lightly do we often value and how little do we appreciate a kind lovin’mother! What a fountain of pure unselfish love rises un from her generous loving heart! Who will love us as a mother does? And who will snflfe , work, and toil for us, depriving themS'dves of every comfort, in Order that we mav be well cared for." and spared all anxieties and cares of life? No one hut ", mother." We - may have a kind father,, gentle and loving brothers and sisters, and, when we grow older, and leave the patemjl roof, jvemay he fortunate in shearing a kind husband or gentle wife, and may be blessed with dutiful and happy children; hut po one wil] ever exercise toward us the same kind, patient love and gentle forhearancfrja* a mother. How kind we should he to hej 1 ? We should share her anxieties, lighten the burden of her cares, and strive to make her declining years happy. It fi a debt, as well as a duty, wo owe her. and it is happily in the power of all to pay it. Think of the many days of weary toil and the years of unselfish love and patient devotion «he has given W ns, and then let us ask oursglves if Wo can do too much ■for" mother. " - .■c-vi, .v

An accident happened to a party of workmen on the Kai Iwi railway line, near Wanganui, on Saturday last. Twenty-six of th n ra, together with a little girl, were returning homewards after work to Aromoho station in a railway truck, went down a steep incline. The brake did not act," and the truck became uncontrollable. Thespeed increased up to express train rate. The men kept jumping out all along the line, and getting thcii heals cat, their teeth knocked ont, and ribs broken; but not dangerously injured. In their panic all but one forgot the little girl, and he gently dropped her over the side of the truck, and she fell unhurt. ■ ' ' - •