NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2683, 13 November 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[pep. press association.] AITCKLAND, November 13. A lad, aged twelve, named Ernest Travers Chalk, was thrown from his horse on Saturday. His foot caught in the stirrup, and he was dragged a considerable distance. He died in a few minutes. A sad case of drowning occurred at Queen street Wharf on Saturday night. A woman named Lotitia Bryant, while waiting for the arrival of her husband - from Biverhead, fell into the water. Capt. Tye, of the Alexandra, a ferry steamer, jumped after her. The woman, after struggling for a minute or two, sank, and ‘ _ a t the same time it was noticed that Captain Tye was apparently in a drowning state. A steamer's boat had now been lowered, and Captain Smith and his mate put off to the assistance of those in the water. The first reached was Captain Tye, who when caught was sinking for the last time, and had already sank some two or three feet under the water when caught hold of. By.this time a man named Koso took off his clothing and jumped into the water from off the wharf.

He swam to where the woman was iast seen, and not being able to see anything of he ha dived under the water, but was unsue cessful in finding her. He then dived again and brought the body to the surface. M Bryant moved her arms once or twice and expired. While Rose was in the wato b clothing and JBS or J!6 in his po Jet was stolen. The bystanders subscribed to a new suit of clothing. It l ias . pired that Capt. Tye could not swim, a d jumped into the water on the luipuiseot the moment. Mrs Bryant is the wife of a carpenter, and leaves five children. Mr Bryce leaves for Rotorua in a week. The Wairarapa has arrived, twenty-o e hours from Gisborne, making the fastest time on record. ’ Q WELLINGTON, November 13. In the Divorce Court to-day, a decree absolute was granted in the case of Lovca v Levoi, but no order was made as to the custody of the children. . • The Appeal Court opened this w : th a case of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency against Patersoß ana McLeod, Dunedin. The case will last all d ' y ' DUNEDIN, November 13. On dit, that Mr Arnold Momraith, soft goods salesman, has failed with lia of .£IO,OOO. - Mr Daniel Stephenson, manager tor Messrs Royse, Stead and Company, Saturday from exhaustion caused by shock to his system sustained by the tati railway accident. He was in one o the hinder carriages which did not e. the line. He loaves a wife and three children. He was for a long time a resident in Auckland.