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Temuka Leader, Issue 2000, 28 January 1890, Page 3

Thus the Manawatu Times ;—We have no desire to sea Wanganui retrograde, but in these_ times standing still means the same thing, and the sooner Wanganui arouses itself, establishes industries, cuts up the large holdings around it into small farms, and depends less on bleeding the ' country districts, the better it will be for the whole coast. It has splendid natural advantages, but does not use them. The Palmerston people, and Manawatu residents generally, are using theirs with excellent effect, A man named Walter Watson was committed for trial at Q-ia-borne on December 30th for larceny and admitted to bail. His bondsmen demanded his arrest last weel?, and a mounted constable was sent in search of Watson, who bolted in the direction of Napier. Two Wairoa policemen were also sent out in search, and after a patient search and a tough struggle they captured Watson and brought him to GKsborne. He was on Saturday committed to gaol. On Saturday morning a most serious accident happened at Russley, on the racecourse, the private property of Mr H. Hereford. Joe Manning, a lad of fifteen years of age, was riding the Padogan—La Mode two-year-old colt at work on the track, when he fell, breaking his leg, and rolling over hia rider, whose injuries were so serious that he was conveyed to the Hospital, At a late hour on Sunday night Manning bad not recovered consciousness, and he was then in a precarious condition, The colt bad to be shot,