The New Zealand Herald says :— : Our readers will not have forgotten tha late news from Fiji containing the intelligence of the massacre, by a number of Solomon Islanders, of the master, crew, and passengers of a cutter of the Fiji Group We learn that the master of the cutter, the Neva, was named William Owen, better known as "Ruggy Bill," an old settler in Auckland of twenty years' standing, and at different times in charge of several vessels in the New Zealand coasting trade. Owen has left a wjdow and live children in Auckland. It had been arranged that-the family were to proceed to Levuka in the Sea Gull, but of course the terrible tragedy to which we refer has completely changed the aspect of aifairs, and the fanrily are left destitute.
The Wanganui Weekly Herald says i —A very obsequious supporter of the Government, on being taunted that the withdrawal of the billet-providing clauses for the Public Works Bill was a sign of weakness in the Government, replied " Not at- all. The clauses in question were kept dangling before the eyes of members during the session, and so effected their purpose. Government never intended to pass them, and their, withdrawal now, when those we wanted to secure have committed themselves irrevocably, w T as part of the original intention."
A valuable bullock, belonging to. Hay Brothers, Pigeon Bay, Canterbury, was being brought off the ground, when the animal took to the water; after swimming several hundred yards, the beast seemed to repent of his rash proceeding, and turned Is is head to. shore. The crew of the schooner Randolph "went after it in their boat, on seeing which the animal again made, for sea. Boat and bullock dodged each other lor some time, till the head of the latter again turned shoreward. On gaining footing, the strong swimmer gave three "convulsive splashes," and after a "bubbling cry" rolled on his side.. The carcase was towed on shore by the boat's crew. The Saturday half-holdiay movement in Christ church having been found im r practicable, that day has been abandoned and Thursday substituted. The Warrnambool Examiner reports that a Mrs Wilson, of Koroit, was suffering from thcnmatism, and whilst a young girl was rubbing the back of the patient with kerosene, a blaze of fire exhibited itself on the patient, who suffered severely for a short time. Medical aid was obtained, and she was soon out of danger. What word of five letters can lose two, and have ten left I—Often,
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1194, 11 December 1871, Page 2
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