MOTUEKA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 217, 4 September 1876, Page 2

MOTUEKA.

[Fbom oub own Cob RESPONDENT.] More accidents ! Mr John Kambold, of Motueka, broke the small bone of his leg last j i eek wbile over at Dovedale, and a child at Riwaka had its arm broken. The doctor himself in his energetic attempts to mend the wharf had a finger jammed by his "mate," and waa obliged to give up work of that kind for a week, so that tbe wharf remains very

~- \ \j-'- J " i'--- - H -- much id. the same st^te it W>hen I last w r. ote - r^ 8 P^vioci*! JS[overnraent ought to take Qaeen': Elizaytli's : >« Semper eadem.'Vwhich some wifcked jestet'tranalatei «« worse^nd worse." l[fo rgoe to medtion that Mr Spencer Pesl was tfi/rown violently from a corse i which he waa rfiling barebacked and . jeceivei Severe lnjurYes 'ami contusions, and was muoh shaken. ---■«-'- I don't know tbat there ia anything else to tell you about. Life flows on like a atream of molaaaes, placidly and gently, disturbed by no storms, movel by no tempests. If I : were to tell you that Mrs Quiverful presented . her, J delighted spouie; wjth, a'flfteeath little Quiverful and that mother an!! child are both doing woU, I should tell you the atiple news of the district. The Motuekans have, to do them justice, always been opposed to -the Im fijf ration Policy, of which they don't sea the necessity: ; And' considering tfiertf arfe. ab)ut 79 births to 15 deaths annually in 'toie' district, nobody would think it needful here at any rate " " " When Itellyou that thera are excellent people here who think Nelson city a place of wild dissipation, culpable luxury, and bic'hinaliaa orgies, you may form some idea of the tranquil innocence of our life. If you hear of anything ra "the shape, of an eacthquike wandering about in searohof a mission, pray;; send it here to stir us up. Personally your Co-respondent feels like the Irishman, * 4 blue moulded for want of a batin." Moftfefe^ AngUstfSQ; v •-•7— -r r--r- .--