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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 36, 11 February 1879, Page 2

A young lady, while bathing at Auckland, had a narrow escape. While jumping off the spring board the wind blew her bathing gown over her head. She struggled in the water, but could not free her hands. Eventually two men were called, and the poor girl was brought on shore apparently dead. After rubbing for nearly half an hour signs of life appeared, and a doctor was sent for. Her recovery is very doubtful. The Inangahua Times is rather surprised to learn that the Mongolian population of the Antonio's and Blackwater districts far exceeds that of the European members, the figures being given— Chinese, 60; Europeans, 35. A Chinese store has recently been opened at the Blackwater, and many of the Chinese are reported to be earning good wages in the neighborhood of Mossy Creek and elsewhere. We wonder (asks the Times) if this " yellow agony" contributes anything to the county revenue in the way of taxes ? Apropos of the report in London to the effect that the New Zealand natives had killed and eaten five Wesleyan Missionaries, and Sir Julius Vogel's denial, the Sydney Mail says : — " This reminds us of a similar incident in earlier days. A statement was published that the Maoris had murdered, cooked, and eaten two Baptist missionaries; and in due course came an indignant official deuial of the authenticity of the report. The Maoris, their apologist declared, were not capable of the iniquity charged against them. It was true that .they had killed, two missionaries and eaten them, but that the reverend gentlemen had been cooked was a malicious mistatement. Besides, nothing save a bitter animus against an oppressed but noble race could have actuated any one in stating that the deceased were Baptist missionaries. It was only justice to the aspersed natives to state that the sufferers were of the Presbyterian denomination."