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Evening Star, Issue 4252, 12 October 1876, Page 4

The usually quiet township of Waimate was, a couple of days ago, the scene of an unsuccessful elopement. The " happy pair" left the conjugal roof in an express en route for the south, and had proceeded as far as the Union Bank when they were arrested by the husband, who, climbing on the conveyance, took possession of his runaway spouse and baggage, together with the swag of the man of her choice, and drove back in triumph to his residence, holding up a white calico bag to the sight of sundry amused spectators.

The progress which is being made by the contractor, from Waitaki north to the junction with the Hook section of the South Canterbury railway, is (reports the 'Tribune') very satisfactory. The rails and sleepers are being laid at the rate of fully a quarter of a mile per day, and, should the weather continue favorable, at this rate of progress, the junction with the Waimate branch will soon be reached, which will allow Messrs Pratt and Martin to get on with their contract for the Waimate branch line. The engine has commenced ballasting, and now about a mile of the line is ballasted, while there is fully three miles of platelaying in hand.

A newspaper, in describing the burning of a dwelling, mentions the rescue, "by way of a window, of the servant girl, 15ft. in height " It is said that a human being has seven millions of pores through which pcispiratir.n and exhausted particles of the system escape. >Ve aie all creatures.