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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 435, 5 November 1866, Page 3

MajobToh Tempske.—The Wellington Independent, Ist November, says Thia gallant officer leaves for Auckland to-day. We had hoped that hia valuable services, might have been secured to the colony at the present juncture in some position demanding the exercise of that courage and skill which has so often before evinced 5 but timfes are bad, finances straitened, and the Government are limiting the expenditure on Colonial Defence as much as possible, so the Major, like many another gallant fellow, ha?, perforce, to be for- the time shelved. Should any danger, however, arise ia the North, the Government will be ready to employ Major Yon Tempsky again in the field. A better officer to command colonial troops ia bush warfare it would be hard to find. i Pboyidentiaii Escape of Mss Fox eeosc Death.—Tidings have reached this city (says a Durham paper) of an accident that befel Mrs William Fox, whilst travelling through Switzerland, which-might have been attended with fatal results, and her escape from whicli seems to have been truly marvelous. She was travelling on a mule s back, along, a narrow passage, about a mile beyond the well-known Tete Noire, on their way to Chamouix; the road skirted a nearly perpendicular precipice of eighty feet, with a mountain torrent at the bottom. Meeting a baggage mule at this point, the mule on which Mrs Fox was riding began to jib, and contrived to get its hind legs over the precipice. Having thus lost foothold, it slid down some twenty-five foefc tail formost amongst tbo rocks ; when half-way down she was rolled off, but being entangled by the stirrup was dragged further down till she became disentangled, and then rolled down to the bottom of the precipice. Her husband, who had witnessed the fearful crash with which they had gone down the precipice, never expected to sp' either her or the mule alive again ; and was his surprise as well as joy, on hask° n, S to the spot, to find that she was uninjured except a sprained ancle, caused by entanglemet in the stirrup. It is only a few weeks since three ladies lost their lives by a very sim' lar accident in Switzerland, anrt mo many hairbreidth esr , or — .. xiicu have been experienced at different times in that land of hazardous travels, there are probably few on record more marvellous than mai t>i.ioK it la our pleasure to be able to report on this occasion.

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