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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 984, 4 April 1871, Page 2

Three lives have been lost recently by accidental drowing in Canterbury. Edmund Charles Oakes Bridge, youngest son of C. J. Bridge, Esq., Homebrook, Southbridge, was drowned in a creek on his father's property. —The body of a woman was found in the River Heathcote, in the neighborhood of Christchurch Quay. The body was recognised as that of Airs Berg, wife of Captain Berg, of the schooner Ann. Several severe contusions were found about the face, but it is supposed that her death may have happened by her fall into the river when suffering from a fit, to which she was subject.—The pther death was that of Walter James Newman, a boy twelve years of age, who was drowned while crossing a flooded creek at Port Levy, on horseback. " Efforts are still making," states the European Mail, "to obtain a reduction in the newspaper post between England, China, Australia, and India. It is thought that it would be better to abandon the Southampton route altogether, on the ground that it ought not to cost very much more to convey the whole via Brindisi that it now does to convey the partial mail by the former route to Alexandria. The entire outJay, it is argued, on the Southampton route would thin be saved; and the Government should thereby be enabled to effect a considerable reduction in the postage by Brindisi. As has been (utterly remarked, the present rate is, almost a prohibitory rate; and, in this view of the case, it is absolutely imperative that some concession should be made in the interest of thou sands of our fellow subjects in Austia~ Jja and the east/"