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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 177, 24 July 1878, Page 2

A little girl named Laura Keele, about three years of age, had a narrow escape from being burnt to death this afternoon. It appears that she was playing ia front of the fire in Mrs Hurley's house ia Bridge-street, when her dress caught fire. She ran outside and was seen by Mr Bartlett, a shoemaker Hying on the opposite side of the street, and he ran across, and with great presence of mind tore off his leather apron and wrapped her tightly in it, thus extinguishing the flames. The whole of her dress and pinafore were burnt, but strange to say she escaped without any injury whatever. A report of Mr Hursthouse's meeting at Motueka on Monday eight will be found on the fourth page. , A beport of a presentation to the Rev. Father Garin by the pupils of St. Mary's schools, on the occasion of his entering upon his 69th year, reached us too late for publication to-day. Wje see by the Southland Times that Mr A. D. Austin, who was Resident Engineer here for the Eoxhiil railway, and who since then has been superintending the construction of railways in Southland, ha 3 been promoted to the more important office of Superintendent of Kailways for the Provincial District of Canterbury, We congratulate Him on his promotion. A Delicate Membrane. The lining of the intestines is a most delicate membrane and when it becomes so unnaturally sensitive that a slight change of air or a variation in diet hurtfully affects it, the tone and regularity of those organs can only be restored by the action of some wholesome invigorant. Active purgation weakens the bowels and abdominal muscles and aggravates rather than

lessons the evil. Brace and stimulant them with Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Akomatio Schnapps.— Advt. l ' n i i. i j.; minium