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Evening Star, Issue 2941, 23 July 1872, Page 4

As Mr Allen, dentist, was crossing Cashel stVeet, Christchurch, he was knocked down by the Lceston coach. He fell between the leaders, but he immediately folded his arms and lay still, and, although the coach passed over him, he was untouched by the wheels, and rose from the .ground apparently ininjured. A Victorian paper says :—“A lady resident in the neighborhood of Strathalbyu, having no children of her own, and being desirous of adopting one, recently visited the Destitute Asylum for the purpose of selecting one. Upon being shown into a room where the orphans were ranged in rows, a little girl, evidently mistaking the lady for her lost mother, to whom possibly she may have borne some resemblance, immediately she saw her, rushed up to her, exclaiming. ‘ Oh, mother ! why haven’t you come for me before ?’ The act was natural ; a reciprocity of feeling was engendered, and the child is now happy in her adopted mother’s home.”