THE KAIKOURA STAR. KAIKOURA, MAY 11, 1894.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 737, 11 May 1894, Page 4

THE KAIKOURA STAR. KAIKOURA, MAY 11, 1894.

Matter crowded out. Australian News on 3rd page. Report of the wedding, on Wednesday, on 6th page.

Racing, Football, Aquatics, Cable Items and General News on 6th page. The Wakatu landed 30 passengers at Cheviot on her way here from Lyttelton last Wednesday.

The members of the North Star Lodge of Good Templars hold an Open Meeting ou Monday evening. The Mutual Improvement Society's session is to be opened on Tuesday evening, when a ‘ Social ’ is to be held in St Paul’s Sunday School Rooms. A general invitation is given to the friends of members, and to any who arc desirous of joining the Society.

Nominations for Birthday Handicap and Hack Flying Handicap—two of the events on the 24th of May programme—close with Mr Burland, Secretary, at 8 p.m. tomorrow.

A correspondent writes asking why five sections in the Conway village have been reserved. The Minister of Lands can, doubtless, give a satisfactory reason. The Gazette of the Bth of March contains a list of lands permanently reserved. The proclamation of the Governor has it that in the village of Conway, sections I, 9, 10, 19 and 20, the first in Block I, the others in Block 11, all five sections being one acre in extent, are reserved for purposes of ‘ public utility.’

Just after 5 o'clock cn Tuesday evening Capt Davidson's son Robert met with a mishap, resulting in fracture of his right leg. diagonally, midway between the hip and knee. He was riding the erstwhile racer, bliss Clyde, a short distance above bis father’s residence. Through some cause, or other several reasons are assigned—the mare shied and attempted to jump on to a ledge about eighteen to twenty-four inches above the level of the water channel. She missed her footing and fell heavily on her side, with little Bobby underneath. The mare broke away and on reaching the stable Master Dave Scott saw that the saddle-girth was broken. He wernt he see if anything untoward had occurred, and found his young companioa wriggling, for he could not fairly crawl, homeward, and in much pain. Messrs B. Gilling and Sutherland were called and carried Bobby home. Dr Gunn was speedily in attendance, and, after administering chloroform, set the broken limb. Bobby is now doing as well as can be expected. He has had more than his share of trouble for one so young, having previously lost a finger in a chaff-cutter, and been operated upon for an aural complaint by a Wellington specialist. —Lost, greenstone pendant.