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Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 378, 29 July 1884, Page 5

Mr Bracken will shortly leave Dunedin to take up his residence in Wellington. * ' " " A Salvation Navy " is about to be inaugurated by " General," Booth, of the Salvation Army. At a meeting held in Exeter Hall the other evening, he stated that a steamer was being prepared, and --.; would soon start to " bombard " the sailors on the sea. The latest idea in the way of block voting was the combination of bookmakers add betting men in the JSforth, in order to return' ' candidates pledged to strive to abolish the totalisator. . • J. . .. It is stated, says the ■ Wanganui Chronicle' »' ' that Sir Julius Yogel has given a private ' pledge to certain ex-members ahd candidates that, if returned to Parliament .and entrusted with the leadership, he will introduce a Bill fixing the annual pay**'".'/ ment of Ms.H.li. at L3OO. - * * •• The Wakatipu correspondent of the '** Otam. Daily limes' writes:- "While s*avir,™ oithe Frankton Hospital, Lake WnStin?. £ which Mr Fergus remold iao^rft by Dr J. Douglas' unremitting tUtiS K t?on£; nbr ?i ke ' * ■■ tion from the patients at the Hospita -10 • " tSeT Vr~l™ bDg tSaddtes^ them Mr lingua graciously consented." It . might be mentioned that the deputation was " a poor fellow whose hand had iust been fi^lb t ?■ Z^^™"* who sui^eid from Whites in hands and feet, was chosen as "* chairman because he couldn't applaud; the rest of the audience were cither in bed, or less or more tied up and bandaged ; and the candidate was on crutches, with his leg in a sluig. It is questionable whether any candi- • date under similar circumstances ever addressed a more 'suffering and natient l meeting. Mr Fergus was atfeuti^Sd to -though it may be supposed there, wen, some groans, but not from disapprobation of his sp_ech,-and at the conclukcThe re- ' ceived a unanimous vote of thanks.' 1 - * Our contemporary, • L<_ Permim. ' +.'i story which sIU Sat polZZaT^t* aide nave no. so completely pa -sed out of - existence iv Fr ,noo J the Vthoc of "John misi who h i k yrar ag ° a undor, who had tue reputation of beiue what m England we a*.ll'« a character,'' "S ' Siting oui ot a railway carriage at Eslv, - near Pans, when vis f oon trippßd on rf ' tootboard and he was hurled forward into the air, iUs prom-oss was arrested by a young railway porter, who saved him from ■ what might have* proved a fatal accident, and who .puluttly W him to hia own carriago. ihe miller thanked his pre erver ami was careful, whenever he was at the the station to press his hand with all the warmth that a Frenchman can put into into that salute, but the porter received m more substantial mark of gratitude uutft he learnt by a recent telegr.-m that tbe* stranger whom he had saved from an awkward stumble one year Viefara j lad died on the previous day, and bad left him a fortune of more than sixteen thousand pounds,