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Patea Mail, 4 August 1882, Page 4

It is stated that the total loss Mr Wason sustained by not being elected member for Wakanui was £683, Timber for the new bank is not delayed, nor likely to be, by the second collapse of the Rangitikei bridge. We learn there is timber enough on the ground to complete the job. • Most of the timber used in the building trade in the African towns is imported from America or Norway. Shippers of timber from New Zealand, could get a cargo of fruit in. return. Dr A. Corre, a gentleman who has lived in Senegal and other inter-tropical regions in Africa, says he believes the African blacks are dying out, in consequence of the advance of European settlement. It will, however, take the whites a long time to get used to the yellow fever and malaria. The means of exit from Princess’s Theatre, Dunedin, were practically tried last week. The audience numbered close on 1700 persons, of whom 1,106 were in the pit, and 350 in the stalls, and from the time the'curtain fell until the last straggler left the building, the whole time occupied was three minutes. A sad death oenrred at Little River, near Christchurch, the other day. Sitting by the fireside playing with a marble, a child put it into his mouth. The mother heard a choking noise, and putting her finger down the boy’s throat could touch the marble but not remove. The child died in about 15 or 20 minutes. I