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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 36, 8 October 1886, Page 4

It is rumored that negotiations have been made for the construction of the Gorge line by the Wellington-Manawatu Company, but without result, the Premier being strongly opposed to it. The violent gales on Saturday was fob lowed by heavy rains on Sunday night, Monday, and today. Several parts of the town and district are flooded, and unless the weather breaks very soon, very great damage will be done.—Examiner. Macara's coach was caught in a whirlwind, it is, said, on Saturday, just after h aving the I amaki Hotel for tho station. Iho horses eould’nt stand such a “ sneezer, " and turned round. During tits- turning the nndergeanug became detached, and the four horses gallotied off to Oringi with tho |>ole and the two front w heels. There were no passengers in tho coach.—Examiner.

PAWNING A PA 111 OF TROUSERS FOR MEDICINE. TAMES FRANCIS THOMAS lives f J in Pontnewnydd, iu*ar Politypool. Monmouthshire, lie i s „ ow 23 ymrs of ape. living with hi* mother, a widow. Some 11 years of age, then a mere boy. he went to work in the coalpit as a miner, in order to assist his mother in rearing her family of little children. Soon, however, the little fellow broke down in health, but the necessities of the family seemed to require it, and lie continued to toil in the milieu, suffering all the time from the effects of iniligeslion, an agonising symptom being asthma, in such a troublesome form that the boy was unable to lie in bed. Working through the day, and reeling as best he could ui an armchair during the night at orally luidcruuiicd his coustliuiou