Another Drowning.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 38, 10 January 1883, Page 2

Another Drowning.

(BY TELKUUAPHJ (TJNITJBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.) iNyaitCAßeiLi,, This Day. A. scjiool-boy named Alex. Vaughan, and Thomas Lynes, a ploughman, were drowned \yhile bathing m a creek at Dora station, Hokunni, where Vaughao bad gone to see his mother daring the holidijß,

v Ve ioani that the men sent to prison m default of their payment of the fine's for assault on Mr Walkley, anp resisting the police, have paid the amounts and bean released from custody. One of them got the money for hia fine remmitted from Christchurch. The lesson should not be forgotten. Mr J. B. Hamilton's new and very attractive advertisement will appear tomorrow. It is just possible that the Manawatu portion of the English mail via o'Frisco | will reach Wellington m time to be despatched to Ptilineraton to-morrow morning. Mr J.Gomez' new advertisement, which is by the way quite a novelty, will appear so soon as we can make room for it. The notification m question can claim to be original, and will catch the eye of a good many readers. A letter is to be read at the Borough Council to-night from Mr H. Graff, m reference to his duties as custodian of the Public Hall, having some connection with the charge preferred by Cr Walker against Cr Ferguson, which has been postponed till to«night's meeting.

Captain Barry accepts Mr Walker's challenge to run a match for £100. We will back Captain Barry to run Mr Walker, or s any body else if chased for advertising account, In such an emergency the old veteran can travel at the rate of knots, and can give anybody we know points. In fact he is as good at that as at blatherskiting, which is saying a good deal. Elsewhere will b» fouud an announce* ment from M.essra Summers and Co., of Feilding, aerated-water manufacturers, whose reputation m this line is established on the West Coat, and more particularly m the Manchester Block. The preparations by this firm are acknowledged to be second to none for purity and perfection of make. .Numerous complaints reach ua of the very unsatisfactory way m which the nightman performs his duties, m some cases not performing it at all, causing very groat inconvienence. If neglect of this kind is permitted duriug a hut season like the present the results will not be far to seelr. • ! The 'Victorian Law Institute is'endeavouriee; to purge its rolls of solicitors who have been guilty of criminal offences. The ladies of Perth, Western Australia, have recently had conferred upon them the privilege of voting at municipal elections. The Bishop of Melbourne aaya : — "At home I was an English Badical, but (m Engiish Radical here becomes a Victorian Tory." A schoolmaster of 17 years' experience m Victoria is convinced that the children lof that country are second to none m ! mental endowment.

Ib|is expected that] the north railway line will be ready for opening about ihree months hence as far as Manutahi. This will leave only about ten miles to complete " that fearful gap "which has long been the trouble of travellers, and we shall soon have an unbroken line of rail from New Plymouth to Foxton. Mr Greenwood surgeon dentist may be consulted at Roe's Private Hotel next Thursday week. There appeared to be quite a commotion at Feilding last night among those interested m the case to be heard to-morrow at Palmorston. The legal element was m grreat demand, and caucuses were the order of the day." Sir Juliu9 Togel is of opinion that m the encouragement of immigration the colonies will find a better mine of wealth than any gold or diamond mineHyat discovered. The advertisement notifying the dissoa lutiou oi partnership of the firm of Foster, i Hounslow, and Voigt, ha 9 been altered by he addition of a sentence to include private accounts, which are also payable by the new firm.

A bullock on the line, on the Halcombe incline, nearly caused an accident to the train last night. We hear that Mr H. Death,of Marton, haa purchased Mr Hitchinga' property, Earere, the price paid being Ll s an acre. We (Herald) understaad that declarations of insolvency have been filed by Esteven Belize, of Feilding, and Henry Hurley of Wanganui. Rumours are also current of the expected failure of a wellkßown commercial firm there. Murdoch, the captain of the Australian Eleven, will, it ia stated, at the finish of the tour, resume his practice aa a solio* itor m Coo tarn uaclra.