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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 39, 3 March 1877, Page 2

" Foul Play's " letter was crowded out of our present issue, but shall appear m our next. Mr E. S. Thynne will sell by auction on Tuesday next at Foxton, 20,000 feet of first-class timber. The Napier leaves Wellington for Foxton to-day, returning again on Monday, after arrival of midday train. We draw attention to the performances by the Globe Combination Troupe at the Foresters' Hall, on Monday and Tuesday next. Tendei's are called m our present issue for the erection of a lock-up at Foxton, also an office for the Railway Manager and an addition to the engine-shed. The English Mail, via San Francisco, will close at Palmerston North, on Monday, the sth inst., at 9 p.m. ; and, via Suez, on Thursday, the Bth, at 9 p.m. Mr G. M. Snelson's sale of milch cows and good hack horses will take place this day, at his sale yards adjoining the Peoples' Auction Mart. Sale commences at 2. o'clock p.m. Our attention has been directed to the encroachment of the Oroua river upon the foundations of the bridge leading from this township to Awahuri. We are informed that the river some time ago took a sweep towards the Awahuri side, but during the last flood the current set m towards the Palmerston side of the river, and as a consequence the foundations of the bridge on this side, if not actually laid bare, have been left m a dangerous state. We suppose this is now a matter for our County Council to see to, and therefore would commend the fact stated to their notice. We are extremely sorry to have to record an accident which befel a little daughter of Mr Carl Anderson on Thursday afternoon last. During the absence of the father from home and whilst the mother was engaged m milking cows at some distance from the house, the child managed to light a fire at the root of a cabbage tree. In playing around this its dress became ignited, and by the time assistance arrived the poor little thing was so badly burnt that death ensued at an early hour yesterday morning. Mr Gundersen a neighbor of Mr Anderson's, ■who was the first to discover the child m flames, got his hands severely burnt m trying to extinguish them. It is with regret that we record the death of Bethia Jane, eldest daughter of the late Dr Featherston. Miss Featherston died on the night of the 24th inst., at Wellington, at the residence of her brother-in-law, C. Johnston, Esq. She only returned from England a few months ago, and we learn from a Wellington paper that she never recovered from the shock of her father's death. By warrant m the "New Zealand Gazette " His Excellency the Governor annuls the definition of the limits of the port of Manawatu made by warrant under the hand of the Governor, dated the 20th day of November, 1868, and orders that for the purposes of the Marine Act, 1867, the said port shall be called the port of Foxton, and that the seaward limits of the said port shall be an arc of a circle of two nautic miles radius from the signal station. A Napier paper states that a Dane named S. T. Beck was, on Sunday morning last, at Makaretu Reserve, found hanging from a beam m one of the rooms of his house. The deceased had been m low spirits for some time previously on account of not being able to procure work. An inquest was held, at which a verdict of "temporary insanity " was returned. The other day, a son of Mr Perston, the manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Wanganui, met a bad accident from a horse falling with him. On Saturday night his little sister, who it appears has been suffering extreme pain of mind on account of her brother's accident, causing her sleep to be restless and disturbed, rose from bed while m her sleep, and walked out of the upstairs window, falling to the ground a considerable distance. She was much bruised, but is recovering. — " Post." At a meeting of the Committae of the Wellington Teachers' Association held recently, the Treasurer reported that the amount subscribed for the benefit of the family of Mr Dixon, a schoolmaster at Marton, who had been obliged to discontinue teaching owing to ill-health, was £125.

It was further stated that a house had been purchased for the family at Marton, and the Rev. Mr Stewart and Mr J. M 'Beth were appointed trustees to hold the property on behalf of the family. — "Post." „ ..An analytical .Index of Authors and Snbjeets of Papers read before the various affiliated societies under the New Zealand Institute, and published m the first 8 vols. of the Transactions of that body, is m course of preparation under the auspices of the Board of Governors. It will form a beautifullyprinted volume of about fifty pages, bound m cloth, and will be issued to subscribers at 2s 6d. A curious boat accident happened m the harbor this afternoon. A hulk was moored a little distance off the end of the wharf, and having a good deal of chain out, a boat attempted to pass between the hulk and the buoy she was moored to. When the boat was fairly m the middle of the chain the wind blew the hulk astern, and the chain tightening up the boat was caught fairly m the middle and tossed up into the air. The occupants, five or six m number, were all thrown into the water, but were promptly rescued by boats which put off from the wharf and the gridiron : — "Argus." People should be very careful of their actions when they are m the neighbourhood of a camera obscura (says " Atticus," m the Melbourne "Leader.") There is one of those pretty little shows on the Sandridge Railway Pier, to which, during the holidays, a large party paid a visit. The room was too small to hold them all, so a gentleman and a young lady remained outside, and went for a short stroll along the beach. After a minute or two they both looked cautiously around, and, seeing nobody about, naturally concluded that they were themselves unseen. In this belief they kissed, not once or twice, but at least fifty-times, and m the most pronounced manner, and the whole of that performance, innocent enough, no doubt, m itself, but which people like to go through m private, was faithfully represented with the most startling accuracy on the white table round which their friends and relatives were grouped ! For the sake of human nature, I regret to say that none of the witnesses to this shocking scene shut their eyes, or turned away their faces, for the five or ten minutes that the kissing was kept up. The San Francisco mail, which arrived yesterday m the Taranaki m advance of contract time, consisted of 3419 letters, 780 book packets, and 10,400 newspapers. The Auckland " Herald " hears that Mr Peebles, the great Spiritualist preacher, is expected by the next San Francisco steamer, on his way to Australia. The Rakaia, which arrived m harbor yesterday morning, brought ten iin migrants for the Feilding Special Settlement. They comprise two families, who were sent out as third-class passengers, thei*e being no immigrant ship by which to send them here at the time.—" N. Z. Times." A friend of ours has taken to the combined pursuits of account collecting and newspaper reporting m a country district of this province. He says that "it would take a pure genius — a man with the sagacity of a St. Bernard's dog and the endurance and thick-Bkinnedness of a mule — to get through his work." The capacity of absorb- . ing an unlimited amount of alcoholic and fermented liquors without becoming affected thereby is also, he asserts, an indispensible qualification for the office. — " Post." A Triumph of Chemistry. Among the chemical triumphs of the nineteenth century none has been fraught with more important results than the discovery, twenty five years ago, that by combining with a certain stimulant of absolute purity and agreeable flavour special medicinal ingredients of vegetable origin, a remedy was obtained for local or general debility, kidney disease, gravel, dyspepsia, constipation, and many other ailments. The name of this remedial wonder is Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps. — Advt.