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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1676, 3 May 1884, Page 2

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;■> (UNITED FKESS ASSOCIATION. SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO MR ' EOLLESTOIi '

Christchurch; Thursday, i A .serious accident occurred, to tho Hon .W. Rolleston late on Tuesday afternoon. ■ 'As lie was on his way to the Banrner Plains Hot Springs, arid; as the coach—a kind of double-seated buggy-entered tjie ford leading across tho Waiau river;'"ttiwards St Helen's' station, tho front scat canin out with a jerk, caused by a sudden drop from the cutting into the river, and the driver, the Minister for lands, and Mr W, A-,. Lowo, of St Helens, were pitched over. The driver soon recovered his seat, and Mr Lowe, after a little while, scrambled on to tho pole, and finally mounted one of the wheelers, but Mr Rolleston was carried against the wheels, and rolled over and over tinder the water. "Very luckily, after somo anxious moments, during which the other occupants of the coach, Mr McKerrow, the Surveyor General, and a Christ-church'gentleman who was visiting the Spriiigs, experienced the uncomfortable sensation of seeing a man drowning • almost within reach, and whom tliey wero unable to help. Mr Rolleston'came to the surface and made his way to the hank, The coach had just left, but |- the driver brought on Mr Rolleston on one of the coach horses,- and the lion, gentleman fortunately suffered nothing worso than a very cold bath. Mr Rolleston's escape was a very narrow one, and, as may perhaps be remembered by our readers, it is the second experience of a similar character the Minister lor Lands • has had within a year or two. On the last occasion Mr Bryce was with him near Paribaka, and he had then even a narrower [ escape.

DunediN; Friday. In the cases of four Chinese charged with gambling at Tapanui, one was fined £5 ss, one £2 2s, and two one pound each". The Bench declined to forfeit the gambling instruments. Gisbome, May 1. Major Ropata writes a letter to the Poverty Bay Herald, in whienhe says: ~"I am much disturbed in thought by the reports which are spreading about that Te Kooti Rikirangi is coming to this side of the island. Those people who have invited him (alluding to tlio Wairoa natives) were, his soldiers,, and helped liira in his murderous work. They have left traces of their evil deeds behind them at Poverty Bay, and so far as Tologaßay, Moliaka, and other places, Then let those people who have not suffered and who had relatives and friends murdered by this man and his minions invite and cherish him. It would bo the same as killing our own flesh and blood were we to allow him to come here. If anyone wants him here, it must be his friends who were fighting with him in 1863. It was Ngatikahungunu, from the Wairoa, who were his soldiers when he led them on to kill his own relatives with the Europeans, After giving a list of the European's and Maoris killed in the niassacro, Ropata concludes as follows" Now, with all this h our memory, are we to tolerate ihis man's presence in our midst 1 I should say not. Let .Mr Bryce be ever so friendly with him, it is not to be supposed that the relatives and friends of those as enumerated abovo could endure his presence in these parts, I would recommend tho Gbverninent to adviso their friend, Te Kooti, to keep at a safe distance from the East Coast, otherwise trouble may come of his presence here." "