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Patea Mail, 26 April 1882, Page 3

A Fatal Accident happened to a youth named Vine, while riding on Saturday between Hawera and Manaia. He carried the Patea Mails to Manaia, and the horse seems to have fallen and rolled over him, causing injuries which ended fatally yesterday. When a clerical editor says he has seen no Anglo-Saxon poetry .during the' last 25 years that is worth, “ a tinker’s curse,” that editor aiust have overlooked the following idyllic gem : What to him was love or hope ? . : What to him was. joy or care ? He trod on a plug of washing soap The girl had left on top of the.stair ; And his feet flew out like wild fierce things, And he bumped each stair with a sound .. like a drum ; And the girl below with the scrubbing things Laughed like a fiend to. see him come! As a condition for forming an Alpine Club in this colony, the Rev. W. S. Green, who lately 1 scaled Mount Cook, suggests that each member, before election, should have stood on some glacier in the colony, or explored smile 'previously unexplored mountain or glacial valley. The subscriptions could bo spent in building shelter huts in mountain regions for use of explorers.

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