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Temuka Leader, Issue 328, 11 December 1880, Page 2

A, nian commonly known as “Billy ’’ Cooper, of the town of Van Etten, was walking on the railroad track at ,a point not far distant from his lioine. In crossing the railroad bridge. he made a misstep* and, slipping, fell between the ties in such a manner that he was fastened too firmly to extricate himself. Only his head remained above the ties, but his position was so cramped that he was unable to get that out of the way of danger. There suspended in that awful manner, with hia, body dangling below the bridge/.he heard a train thundering along in a distance* approaching every moment nearer and nearer. No one will ever know the struggles for life which the poor fellow majle* but they were futile, and with arms pinioned to his side he was unable to. signal to the engineer. The train came sweeping on upon its helpless victim until within a few feet of the spot, when thai, engineer saw the man’s head, and endeavoured to stop his heavy train. But ton late, the moving mass passed over, cutting the head from the shoulders as clean M it could have been done by the guillotine itself, Lightening: travels nearly a million, times faster than thunder. The speed of lightening is so great that it would o-o four hundred and eighty tunes round the earth m : a minute,— whereas the sound of thunder would go scarcely thirteen miles in the same space time. During the Banco sitting recently. (savs the “ N-Z. Times his Honor the Chief Justice remarked that it was i a jurious fact that the working ot the. bankruptcy laws depended upon a Wprivate individuals. If the newspaper proprietors should choose . 0 r - m advertisement announcing insolvency the whole process of bankruptcy won , some to a stop. It may be added if a ash should tel use to stay m the water its life would come to a stop. newspaper proprietors refuse aaver ise ~ incuts, the world will cease to revolve on. its axis, and the milleninm will begin aext year, “ Tarson, said the deceased’s second vifp, “ how soon can friends find ,ther iu the next world ? Douhtlej* it once, said the good man. laid she, sarcastically', ‘his first wife jot him by this time,” ’’V? •=•,=