Untitled

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2927, 12 August 1882, Page 3

Pign of the Times I—W. Bislop, Grocer, corner of North and Cross Streets, is in want of a good second-hand trap, suitable for delivering goods in town and suburbs, —Advt.

The Rangoon cable has been repaired. Petty larcenies from shop doors, at Waimate, appear to be of very common occurrence.

The sum of £93 13s has been collected aid of two Waihao families left destitute by the recent trolly accident, whereby two men lost their lives. *

The schooner Edith Reid arrived to-day, from Stewart’s Island, with a full cargo of timber for Mr A . Hayes, “ A Canal Boat Girl ” is the heading found in a recent English newspaper. She was found driving a horse on the tow-path. Hardly ten years old, she was one of four children born down the dark, unwholesome hatchway of the boat, which was then occupied by her father, mother, and the children who remained alive. A brother was drowned last year in the Cut”; a sister had lately died of fever in the boat’s cabin. The dead girl, an hour or two.. after her decease, was carried by her mother through the public streets to the house of a relative. The story is simple, but suggestive.—“ Catholic Review.”