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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2369, 20 October 1880, Page 4

In the libel action Mackay v. Connor contractors, heard at Dunedin yesterday, the jury awarded one farthing damages on each of two counts. The Southland News says . —“ The rumour that Captain Owen, of the cutter Ariel, had been drowned on the West Coast, has been confirmed by the arrival at Biverton of the cutter Cygnet, whose master, Captain Hoderique, reports that on the 2nd instant a boat belonging to the cutter Ariel, from the Bluff, was capsized near Gulche’s Head. When first sighted the boat was bottom up, with a man hanging on to her, beckoning for assistance. Two men were also seen on the rocks, one of whom was washed off by the sea, but managed to swim to the Cygnet’s boat. They succeeded in getting the other man off the rocks, and then started for the capsized boat, and rescued the man who had been clinging to her. The master of the craft—a half-caste, well known as Jack Owen, and much respected—was seen to come up to the surface and throw up his arms, but the man on the boat could render him no assistance, and he was drowned. But for Captain Eoderique’s timely arrival it is probable that the loss of four lives had to be recorded instead of one” The ‘ Lancet,’ the leading organ of the medical profession thus refers to Mr Gladstone’s illness, after describing the progress of the attack : —“ We cannot, speaking medically, acquit Mr Gladstone altogether of the charge of having recently neglected to remember that even his powers have a limit; but this is to be said, to the credit of his judgment, that he has been a most submissive patient, and, to the credit of his splendid and well preserved constitution, that he has passed through a testing illness without the slightest sign of failure in the great vital organs, and in a way to justify the hopes of his countrymen that he will, with a little more consideration for his physical needs, be long spared to play his conspicuous part in the councils of the nation. No illness since that of the Prince of Wales has produced such profound and universal anxiety. Mr Gladstone will have the most refined sense of this interest, and cannot better recognise it than by taking a little more ( care of himself.