North and South.

Manawatu Herald, 17 January 1895, Page 3

North and South.

A waterspout at l&rawa, near Kingston, In veroargill, bored a great hole hicthei fa^ of a* mountain,; carrying';ta^,^r^krll!aad clay in its train;4^ :^eiiit; reached the flat countr^lt^pread otrt and covered a portidnw^hbsdn^s'farni with "debris, also (^verra 'the railway line and fiHeJ^the creeks leading intp~4he, MjfttiittrA \ "Rivw. , A. ■ ' rabbiwjr 'e^m cowr^'W^ red clay. " J '■'"\ s " : ' ' tne son waff -shining brightly W few miti ut^^ ; before the occuti-ence.

„'At the Dunedin Police Court Robert Wilson* a young man, charged with serious larrikinism at Morgan's J^aths, Frederick street, was sen-; tenced to two months' imprisonment. Aopus^l, whe»; intoxicated, jßefcfldr a boy aged 'five and >threw him into the water a depth of . 4ft, and left him there. Bat for the timely asrfstance of some bystanders the boy wpuld probably have been drowned. Joseph Kennedy and Andrew Kenned/, for obstructing-, the. Constable Hogah - "while- he -mi ' -afreißtiag" Wilson, were eacbV' setitSneed to a rilonth's imprisonment. ' ■■

I* A ,«ftd drowning fatality occurred at Ngaire on Monday. 1 A young girl of 19 years of age, Majbe| Messer, : a- resident of NqrmStiby, who was on a visit to Mrs Greeny at Ngaire, went to bathe at B*,&op.iih in a dam 9ft deep in the; river. Mrs Green sat watching her, and the girl dived, but never rose to the surface. I

A search for the body was without success till the water was let out of the: dam at 8,30, when the body was recovered.

The poor girl had been suffocated in the mud at the bottom of the dam.

The Melrose Borough Council has passed a resolution in favour of Wednesday being the statutory halfholiday.

.•■A conference of delegates from the pity and suburban councils have fixed Wednesday for the half-holi-day in Dunedin.