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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2516, 4 February 1887, Page 2

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■(United Press ' Ab?ooution.) " Dunedin,; February 3. The'Lau'd Board- yesterday. decided> to recomraenltho G.ovprnm'entto out up into'snSaH tuns-in .Ofogo when tl)e leases expire. One is. to be taken for agricultural settlement,. ouo t,o bo. relet for one year, and then opened for settlement, aula portion of others is to be taken for settlement,'and the: remainder released. The agitation among local bodies to be supplied with information a 8 to the oases of relief from their districts is becoming general.. The committee however, consider that it would be unfair, in a deserving case, to supply information in a public manner, and they have decided to adhere to their resolution to supply it to the Mayors or Town Clerks in any particular oase but to decline to supply it, as a matter of course in every "case. The case of tho girl' Morris, the application for whose services by a Freethinker caused such a storm a short time, ago came up again. Since then two others had applied for her services. A letter was read from two brothers of the girl. sanctioning the girl going out to service, and then after diaoussion she was licensed to them, the late chairman protesting.

Among the paasengers- from the South by the Wnihora"oriiier last trip was a little girl of six years 1 old, who was raakihg- a tour for the benefit of her health, under, the cave of Mr. Pollock, the fore cabin steward. Whilo thovcsßol was being coaled the child was,suddenly ruisßPd,. and a aaai'ch failing to disolose her whereaboiitsy it ■ waßbeleived'she had fallen overboard and had- been, drowned, ' Affairs had reached this stage, when the chief officer heard aery from the bunkers, and proceeded hastily in the direc-. tion from which the sound proceeded, and ho found tho little one lying safely on a saok at the bottom of thebunkers, It appeared that walking along the deck she had.iallen int6 the shoot, from which .she doscended ; adistance of thirty 'feet into the bunkers, •and{strangely enough ;sbo 'was not hurt. It was very fortunate that'.sbe' was ablo to make herself heard,;,for had it been otherwise tliero. is ylery little doubt that sho would have been covered with cdaVfromthe shoot and killed.- ' /■*'-.■