Untitled

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1310, 17 April 1883, Page 2

i The New York Herald of 10th February I published an account of an interview with ■ tho prophetic Wiggins at Ottawa, when he ! thus accounted for ids failure in regard to a i storm which he had predicted for that date i in America, but which did not take place : “The astronomical day begins at noon on the ■ merldan of London and our day begins at ; 12 o’clock at night, I overlooked this fact, so that the aide of the earth presented to the : plunetry force was opposite to that which I j gave. I did not notice my mistake until this ' evening, so the storm fell ou the Pacific instead of the Atlantic. This is the first storm prediction that I ever made that did not tuke place ; wc will get the tail end of the storm yet. It will strike heavily on the east coast of Africa. However, the failure of this storm removes a world of reeponsiflility from my mind, for the storm I predicted for March has hung over me like a nightmare, on account of the horror it has struck on the public mind throughout the world as evidenced by the pile of letters daily received, and if this storm had happened, hundreds, iu anticipating the March storm, would have become insane through fear of the result.” The reporter then asked—“ Will you now retire from the field as a weather prophet ?” to which the abashed Wiggins replied—- “ Yes, so far as publishing letters in newspapers goes.” An unkroken bay filly was beign landed from the Wallabi at Wanganui the other day A sling was placed round its body, and it was violently hoisted up by the derrick almost to the boom. The sudden and Incautious way of handling tho animal caused the hook to come out of the sling, and the unfortunate horse came down with a crash on to a heap of railway iron tying on the deck, The cries of the terrified and wounded creature were piteous in the extreme, and when it was removed from the steamer up to Mr Tmiley’s paddock in Maria Place its spine was founa to be fatally broken. For some reason or other, a bullet was not put through the horses brain, snd it died a lingering death during the afternoon. Fortunately for the credit of Wanganui (adds the Chronicle) as a humane community accidents of this kind are rare. In reference to Mr Bryce’s proposed trip through the King country, the prevailing opinion at Alexandra, gleaned from a variety of sources, ia that unless he obtains a large party of natives as a guard, he will undoubtedly be turned back, or possibly some greater catastrophe might happen. It entirely depends upon the force at his disposal: if his party is strong enough, well, but if not, determined opposition will be offered.—Wai- j kato Times.