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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2387, 10 November 1880, Page 4

A man named Maurice Jones who went to the Leeston Cattle Show in his buggy about a week ago, has since been missing. His mind is supposed to have become effected and is believed to have taken to the hills in the vicinity of Lyttelton. On Tuesday evening Mr Frank Butler was drowned at Kawarau Falls. The ‘ Wakatip Mail’ says that Butler aud H. M‘Heil left o‘Kane’s Antrim Arms Hotel, Frankton, perfectly sober about ten o’clock on the night in question, aud about an hour subsequent, after walking together half a mile in conversation, parted—the latter for Mr F. M‘Bride’s farm, Frankton Flat, and the former for the private ferry (just above the Kawarau Falls) of Mr C. C. Boyes, in whose employ Butler was engaged as general farm servant. It is probable, however, that the ferryman who lived at the opposite side had retired to rest, aud Butler not wishing to be kept out all night, had attempted to swim across this dangerous outlet of the lake, and in doing so had either succumbed to the effects of cramp or else got too near the Falls, aud had been carried down by the rapids into the Kawarau Fiver. The fact of all his clothes (except his hat) havingbeen found in a stable close by points to the probability of the missing man having met with a watery grave. Butler was a first-class swimmer, and it is said not long since swam across that arm of the lake opposite Battery Hill — a distance of a mile. The police at Home appear to be actively engaged in the suppression of spurious clubs. From the last Home papers we observe that Henry Braun, proprietor of the Athanieum Club, Yale of Health, Hampstead, was summoned to the Hampstead PolicelCourt for selling intoxicated liquors without a license. The case was proved by two constables who visited the premises on the occasion of a concert and ball, ■when they were supplied with ale. The Bench said the Club was a “ colorable one, and, as defendant had been lined before for a similar offence, he would have to now pay £25, besides being disqualified to hold a license for Jive years. The engine which fell into the water at the Tay Bridge disaster has been fished up from the bottom of the deep estuary, and is now running on the railway “ as if nothing had happened.” Its first run after resurrection was made on August 23, between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Crowds gathered to see it arrive at the station during the first few days. The wreckage of the bridge is nearly all recovered. About 6,000 tons of iron, portions of the bridge, were fished up during five months, including 510 pillars ; aud the work cost £12,000.