(Per Press Association. Wellington, Last Night.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 42, 22 March 1884, Page 2

(Per P ress Association. Wellington, Last Night .

Mr Allen MclJon.ild, M II.H. for East Coast, intcmls to leave for England by the »io.\t San Francisco mail, and to resign his seat prior to his dcp;irtiu\. Mr W. W. Levin, M.11.R. for Thornrlon, "Wellington, has resigned his seat. Dunkdi.v, L.ibt Night. Mr Oliver Wakcdolrl, Qndor-Secretiiry for the Gold fields, who was on his way i'rmi Wellington to Melbourne by tl.c Wiiiiiora, was very seriously injured by ;\ stean) tram motor in Princess street yesterday, lie was cro.ssim;- the street, and in tryiiift" to avoid an express wn^'on wa> struck by the tram engine and knocked down. The front wheels ran over him, but the eng.no was stopped before the back wheols could touch him. Later. Mr Wakofield lias since died in the hospital. The doctors amputated both legs, and be lived a very hhort time aftei.

' Oh, m.iinm;i, that's C.ipl. Jones's knock — I know ho hus come to ask mo to bo his wife.' ' Well, my ilunr, yon must iiccopt him.' ' But I thought you hated him so ?' ' Iliito him ; I do— so much that T moan to ho his mother-in-law,'' (Reven&e in sweet especially to a woman. ) ' My dear, look down below,' said Grandiose, as ho stood on Waterloo Miid^c wilh his wife, and at a piiitin^ til" hauling a lony lino of b trgos, "such is lii'e — the tui>- is liko a man working and toiling, while the barges, like woman, are ' 'I know,' intoiT'iptod Mm (}., a -ridly, ' tho tn«- does all the blowing and the barges boar all tho burdon.'