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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1143, 11 October 1871, Page 2

Tho Avoca met with rough weatheron the voyage to India. One of tlia sailors, after wounding another, jumped overboard and was lost. Mr Shafto Robertston fell backward through theengine room .skylight on to the top of the cylinder; he was picked up insensible, and lingered a week, and was, buried at sea. The Thames Advertiser- says :--Br the schooner Fortune, which arrived yesterday from Cape Runaway, with a, cargo of pigs, we hare intelligence of $ painful character. The master informs us that Captain Bristowe, a well know? old settler of thac district, was found dead near a cicek at Te Kaha, on the 15th instant, with bruises about the head, caused, it appears, by_ being thrown off his horse while crossing W creek. The horse is believed to have lost its footing whilst passing the pl« c ? a little below the u-ual crossing, when the unfortunate man's foot must hav? caught the stirrup, and so have clragjp him a considerable distance. No askance being at hand he died before to? was found on the following day. Bj 8 remains v ere interred on Sunday las, in the presence of one of the largos gatherings of natives known for §P!»? time past. Deceased was forratfJ-j master of the Zillah, m other vessels of Captain Salmon** i Auckland, and has been resident on W-j 1 East for upwards of 14 year*