PROVINCIAL AND GENEKAL

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 190, 5 October 1871, Page 7

PROVINCIAL AND GENEKAL

The " Dunstan Times " states that Messrs Campbell find Low have a " Double-furrow Gang Plough "at work on Galloway Station, recently imported by Captain Baldwin from America. The principal novelty of the machine is that the ploughman sits comfortably on a raised seat, and with a pair of horses can plough from two to three acres a day.

The " Ballarat Post " has the following :—": — " A most delightful piece of scan. mag. is at present going the rounds of a certain aristocratic neighborhood not above a hundred miles from Melbourne. It is stated that a medical gentleman rather advanced in years has lately become enamored of a young lady who was acting as governess in a family of which the gentleman "was the medi-. cal adviser. The medico told his love and the damsel, thinking doubtless that she might go further and fare worse, consented, and named the happy day. The nuptial knot was duly tied, and the honeymoon completed. , Upon the return of the happy pair to their house, the doctor's friends expressed their congratulations, and amongst the number was a rather prepossessing young fellow, who claims the doctor as his uncle. Visit after visit was made by the nephew, and, love being blind, the newly made Benedict did not notice that there existed a secr?t sympathy between the visitor and his. bride. But unfortunately such was the case, and the denouement came in due course of time. One morning the white dove fled from its legal custodian, and nestled in the stranger's bosom. The medico bewailed his loss for some time ; but, doubtless thinking that such a wife was not worth keeping, he had now ceased to trouble himself as to her whereabouts ; and it is quite possible the matter will end in a divorce case."

A most remarkable instance of intervention of Providence is given in the Pleasant Ci-eek "News": — Lately a man named Thompson, while at his tent door, Moyston, observed a boy about seven years old passing towards the common school, and in a few minutes after this an irresistible conviction seized him that the boy he had lately seen was drowning in an adjacent creek. So unable he was to Yesist this impression, that he ran with all speed to the spot presented in his mind,, when sure enough, he beheld the'disappearing v>ocly just "below the surface of the water. In an instant lie plunged forwarl and grasped the nearly lifeless body of the child, who had evidently been strugglingfor some time, andinafew seconds more would have passed into the spirit world. The child is a son of Mrs. Thomas Parker, and under the attention and restoratives applied, was soon restored to his grateful parents. Thompson feels proud that he was used by the hands of providence in thus preserving a life. He says his mind was engaged wi+h other matters when the scene pourtrayed presented itself, whicli when concluded seemed to him. like a dream."

A melancholy case of suicide occured on Friday week in Cbristchurch. It appears that a married couple named Grimsbaw, recently arrived from England, were occupants of a house situate next Allenton House. For sometime past the husband has been unable to obtain employment, and his wife, has in consequence, been in a desponding state. Ou Friday afternoon the husband left the house to attend a sale in town, and did not return until about 5 p. m., when, on entering the bouae he was horrified at finding his wife hanging behind the door by a niece of clothes line, which, had cut completely into the neck by the weight of the body. He immediately obtained assistance, and the body was cut down, medical assistance being sent for, but life was extinct.