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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1632, 11 February 1886, Page 2

; The 'WViiin'gtW Benevblfcnt' Society'' jare m sore straits tordiuuds. *~ Tliey had arranged fqrVn* £ 200 on tba strength of the rate to be levied by jthe Charitable Aid "Board. The Hult jOounty. Qquncji have given np|ice;of an; appeal against thm rate v and it is probable that other country bodies may do the same... In thiscontingency.m.emhers. bf/the" committee, are afraid to undertake the responsibility of tht> overdraft, ' ana to day' they (determined to a'slc the ' Qo- . yernmetrt if or an advance to k*ep them going. | 4 similar advance w,as refused last week to the, District Board, ,but unless the Government come .to ilie Vesoue it'is feared : tliat the' J Behevoleut Society-iuust' cease operations. ■ ; -.-. ; • . ; The Star' gives the following fuller' of the accident at the ; Gorge [Bridge works:— An exceedingly painful ;acc«iien.t(bie£el >Mr H. Bilderback, on Saturday after { qoqp last, wlien working s at the Ashurst Qftrge . Bridge. Wliile adjusting one pf, the chains attached r l,o tho f j?Win ; c ; of'tne "mbnltty he lost Ilia balance- and mi orddr: to- save hima'elf/ from falling he seized— hold of another 'chain .with his lejft hand. .;' E^aforo tyue|ly warning coiil^ ■be j .give n , and the . •machinery stopped^ ' Rfr ' Bitcierbeck'^' 'hand wasdraw^ri in 1 ' net weeß ' thfe 1 chaifn and the pully_, and'foiir of his fingers iwere crusbed m aishocking manner. He iwas immediately driven into town by |Mr,) l y.., I - I Bray, .(attended^ by /Mr \y >v D. Nicholas on horsepack) }; J and' taken .to iDrJohrison's residence, wlierej a'fte^ tne' jaHministra'tibp Of chloroform,' the second jguger of the left hand was amputated land the wounds : dressed. The . sufferer js, now progressing as favourably as can be expected. :3 [ ..;_.. i;> . } .. „._... „, ■ We are now getting almost sick of jiayjngf iwsere $h e /N-.?-^T A > mepting will be beid. To-day" we" heard from" Captain Purnell that he did not think ih ere was time to clear the range at j iAramoho, and Captain Sommerville m- < forniß-ÜB,that'the,more he thjnks-^of-dt the less', likely ■ dbesV it seem^tiiats tfie shooting wilf be Held tfiere. Th"c "expenses seem too great, and he cannot see that the other advantages' are sufficient fecompense. — Herald. \ The Auckland Bricklayers' Union have voted £50 towards paying passages of bricklayers? out of the colony ,» bwiugl to tne' depressed state or that branch of trade. I An exchange! 1 lfa% *tUe MlbVing : — '* One of the Wellington papers reports that Mr Wardell, R.M.; said on 1 a recent occasion " I must and will- have llsl noise and confusion: here. I 'have already disposed of three important cases without hearing, a, wordof' the evidence.'^ j The excess of arrival^ by sea at Melbourne from Adelaide over departures, for the last four months of 1885, totalled four thousand persons. Such a gain and loss between two colonies is almost unprecedented.