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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2321, 25 August 1880, Page 3

wwwa/snmß' jbji. v j . wu. cmjrgsarjana At the R.AI. Com I this morning James Mums was lined 10s for being drunk and disorderly, and 10s for using obscene language. Both tines were paid. The “ Post” gives the particulars of a shockingly sudden death which occurcd at Porirna on Friday. Mr Edw. J. King, a butcher, residing near the ferry, was in the neighborhood of Stephens’ sawmills shortly after -I o’clock, when he heard a cry for help. On proceeding to ascertain the cause he perceived a youth named Bowles lying underneath a log of timber, which had accidently fallen on him. King was in the act of running towauls the body, for the purpose of extricating him from his perilous position, when be suddenly fell dead to the ground. It is supposed that death was due to heart disease. The deceased was a married man, and leaves a wife and eight children. Bowles was subsequently rescued from.underneath the log, but is now reported to bo in a very precarious condition. John Pound arrived by the express train from Christchurch to day. lie will resume his acquaintanceship with Air Bcetlmm tomorrow, but the police will probably ask bar a remand. Over a hundred laborers are still employed on the Albury railway extension. Tire new section, as far asFairlie Creek, Iras been formed, and is now ready for ballast ing. Through some unfortunate oversight however, nothing lias yet been done towards bridging the Tcngawai, although this is a work that must be completed before anything practical in the way of railway extension can be effected.

Those who intend joining the Protestant Alliance Society in Timam will observe that the fortnightly meeting to be held at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Sophia street, this evening, is the last at which candidates will be admitted by paying half the usual initiation fee. Attention is called to the programme of a concert to be held to-morrow evening in the AYesleyan schoolroom. The contributors comprise some of our best local vocalists, and the entertainment will no doubt be one worthy of the most liberal patronage.

A writer in the “ Boston Transcript” thus relates a talc of woe ; —“ The young lady came and tried to sell me a manuscript story. ‘ Aly teacher likes it,’ she said, when 1 repeated our usual formula of no space, no money, and no anything', to her. ‘Teacher an editor?’ I inquired mildly. ‘ No, indeed,’ was thu answer, ‘she’s a person of refinement and education.’”