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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1440, 27 September 1872, Page 2

The Otago Government has promised J to subscribe J£so, and ihe Canterbury' J Government c£lo(>, towards the expeiises of the proposed exhibition of flax machines. The Auckland Government has promised to bring the matter before the Provincial Council next session. Martin Hauley Carey, a well-known Fenian leader, on the 6th July, jumped of! Essex Bridge into the Litfey, aud 1 was tirowned. Carey had suffered im-1 prisonnient as a Fenien, but had served | as an officer with Bourbaki's Irish coflH| pany, and was a great organiser of Fe*« nian processions and similar demousfcm-1 tions in Dubliu. It is said tli:»fc tbejH man had suffered in his intellect offi"! to injuries received in the Phoenix Pa ,:K H affray with the police; m

On attempting to place the steamer gaxonia on the siip at Newcastle on the 27th ult., the chains broke, and the managing clerk was killed, and several others injured. A terrible story of child passion and its results comes from Shropshire. The children of a woman in humble life, living at Coalport Bridge, quarrelled while at play. One of them, four years old, threw a knife at the other, which penetrated the head, and stuck fast, and on its subsequent removal by a surgeon the child died. The elder brother, seven years old, seized an opportunity .of striking the young murderer on the head with stones with such violence that the life of the little sufferer is despaired of.