DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4435, 22 March 1883, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Yesterday. The lad Webb, who it will be re mem* bered some time ago bad to have both feet amputated at the hospital, through their being frost bitten, leaves by the Rotomahana to-morrow for Melbourne, where it is intended to provide him with artificial limbs. The Union Steamship Company have generously given him a free passage, and an attendant has been allowed him. Several gentlemen in the town are interesting themselves in the case of the lad and in due time will see that he is put to learn some convenient trade. The following are additional particulars concerning the accident by which two children were burnt at Cape Saunders. On Monday evening four children named seVerally Mary Ellen McDonald (six years), Andrew Nelson (five years), Mary Ellen iHenoran (daughter of the assistant light-h&use keeper), and Ernest Nelson (the two-year-old sod of the lighthouse keeper,), went into an old cowhouse for the purpose of playing in it. The shed, which was built of tussocks and wattle, bad been-used as a playroom by the children living at the Cape, and whs situated in a gully about three hundred yards from the lighthouse. The children had not been long in the shed when they lighted some tussocks and threw them about, thus setting fire to the shed. When they saw the mischief they had done the two eldest children ran away, and the two babies huddled themselves in a corner near the door, where they were subsequently found by Mr Nelson, whose attention was first directed to the spot by the screams of the children. The manner of the rescue of the poor babies has been wired already. Sir Modred has strained a tendon and his owner will scratch him for the great Autumn Handicap. This day. MjcNeil and Burkes brewery at the North-East Valley was burnt down this morning. The building was insured in the South British for £700.