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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2211, 19 April 1880, Page 2

The following which we clip from an English paper just received by the mail is calculated to excite some uneasiness, among tho present custodians of the valuable but much disputed property at Wai-iti, which a certain Edward JamesJ who is believed to have perished on the West Coast, left behind hjip npipy ye;jrs ago :—“ A butcher, named Ambrose, left the master he was serving in July, 1809, on Clarence River, New South Wales, to meet at Rocky Head a friend named Griffiths, with whom jjo contemplated entering jnto ship. Griffiths kept tile i'endczyops, hpj, Ambrose did not, and lias not since beep seen. The Judge of the Probate Court was asked on Tuesday to assume that ho was dead, and said lie had no difficulty in beleiving, from the dangers of the Australian hush, that the man was murdered or met with a fatal accident in July, 1809. He therefore granted administration of the deceased’s estate to the next-of-kin.”

An cxcj.tipg scene ip which a buljopk chasing two men and a woman, ahjl tpp men bravely leaving the latter to her fate arc life main incidents, is recorded by tpe Mapawptu “ Herald-” It pears that a mob of pattle wej?e pressing the Mauawatu ferry when a wild beast got away aud rushed down the street. A couple of men, seeing the beast coming towards them, ran through a gap in tho fence into a yard connected with the house adjoining Mr M’Eadyen’s, followed by Mrs Sullivan, who happened to be driving her cows along the street at the time. The bullock gave chase, and the men and Mrs Sullivan ran as fast as their legs could cairy them, tho boast following tbi’ough the broken part of the fence. Away they went along (ho fence insjde, the bullock af£er them, pntil they reached the front fopce, oyeji which the mep jumped with the agility of steeplechasers, leaving the woman fo her fate. Being unable to get over, Mrs Sullivan ran into a corner earned by the conjunction of a saddkr’a shop and tho adjacent house, aud faced the infuriated beast, which she tried to wave off with a stick. This effort did not succeed, and the animal made straight for her. However, she crouched close into the corner, and luckily the horns of the bullock were so long that they supply struck the woodwork on each side of'her, anil‘she escaped unhurt beynrij receiving a dreadful fright, the animal at once making off in a different direction.