NEWS OF THE FAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2503, 29 March 1881, Page 2

NEWS OF THE FAY.

About. £30.000 is said to have been -subscribed towards the construction of the Wellhlgton-Manawatu Railway, ' Dan O’Brien, the well-known jockey, fell off the express train last night about a mile to the north of Winchester station, and was severely injured, the wheel cutting all tae toes oif the right foot.

During, the cruise of the Alert, which returned to the Bluff on Sunday, a man named David McKenzie was washed overboard and drowned.

The truthfulness of the following is' vouched for by the Dunedin “ Star ”:—Two females from “ the coast ” went to a city recently to enquire after a barmaid’s situation that had been advertised. The landlord had not long, before entered the~ihatrimonial bonds, and ho decided tp take the advice of His better half as te the suitability ef the applicants.. The females were well scanned, and Boniface, fortified by the opinion of the wife of his bosom, had made up his mind to engage one of them, and asked if she had a reference. His astonishment can, however, be better imagined than 'described, when the all but successful' applicant rep Ted, “Reference be blamed; let’s have . two brandies,” her patience having become exhausted by the endearing manner of the loving pair. It is unnecessary to add that neither applicant obtained employment. The question re the expediency of throwing open the Christchurch Public Library on Sundaysfwas yesterday settled, when the authorities, decided by a majority of nine to three to open the library on Sunday afternoons, from three to five, and in the evenings from seven to nine. One can readily believe after this excerpt from the ‘ Colonist’ of the -22nd- inst.-,- -that- 1 the workmen atGood’s sawmill, Nelson, had a terrible fright the other day. One of the hands, who was attending ,tp tfte jbpjlpr furnace,Having shovelled some wood, etc., into the furnace, noticed on top of the rubbish what he tdok,to be'a , ‘ > packet of brads or something sort, and he at once drew the package from, the furnace. On examining it he was horrified to discover that the parcel consisted of a* dozen packages of dynamite, Sltfd on his telling the workmen of the fact the feel’tig becaiiies general that they had all had a miraculous escape from a terrible death. , The package alluded to Was evidently dropped whilst iremoving goods from one store to another by the local agents for the lithofracteur;

A boy ri a tired' Richard Campbell bad his skull fractured at Mount Albert, in the Auckland district, by being thrown from his horse, ' -. '

The Tradesmen's Quadrille Assembly; recommence on March 31, at the Oddfellows Hall, Barnaird street. Mr John Griffiths, Pleasant Point Forge, announces that he is prepared to undertake shoeing at very reduced rates ; also, that he has opened a coal yard at the Forge where the best coal may be obtained at lowest market fates. -

.['Special Announcement.-r~New. Drapery—Wood and Smith beg to announce that they have opened a splendid assortment of Autumn and Winter Drapery, comprising ap immense lot of M a iA? ), »; I ja^e ?'> and Children’s Jackets and Ulsters, 'at exceptionally .Iqw, prices. New Millinery. gildings, Main South Road, Tiraaru.— [Advt.]