GENERAL NEWS.
A woman named Adelina Evans, aged 45 years, has been gored to death by a cow at Shakespeare Bay, near Picton. Her husband, on returning home in the afternoon, found her lying dead before the door of his house, with her clothes much torn, and the intestines protruding from a large wound. An inquest was held, when the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence before them, and recommended that the cow, which was a very savage one, should be destroyed. Deceased and her husband were formerly settlers in the Tahaka Valley, and had only recently removed to the Picton district. An accident occurred to the Basilisk on Saturday, the 16th, which, however serious it might have proved, fortunately resulted iu nothing worse than an alarm to the captain, considerable inconvenience to the officers and crew, and a great disappointment to intending visitors. A little after 8 o'clock the officer on watch was startled by the drifting of the ship with the tide, which was then flowing, towards a neighbouring mud-bank, on which in a few minutes she grounded. Steam was got up with all possible speed, but before the engines could be set to work the tide had commenced to ebb, the result being that the vessel had to repose for the night on her unaccustomed bed, fortunately a very soft one, and at high water yesterday morning she was without much difficulty once more got afloat. We had an opportunity yesterday of inspecting the treacherous link of the cable, the breaking of which was the cause of the accident, and the most inexperi* enced eye could detect that it must for sense time have been in a defective state as the centre part only of the iron presented that bright sparkling appearance possessed by metal which has not been exposed to the action of the atmosphere. It is extremly fortunate that the cable should have parted in so calm and smooth a port as that of Nelson, as had the accident occurred in a harbour with a more rocky bottom, and exposed to the boisterous weather which is customary in some of the other New Zealand ports, it might have resulted in the ioss of the ship. The crew having been at work all night endeavouring to get off the decks were yesterday in such state of confusion that the public were not allowed to go on board, a disappointment which was felt by many, and in a pecuniary sense by the watermen especially. The Auckland Licensing Act is so loosely framed,'chat O'Connell's m jtabphorical " Coach and six " has already een driven through it with the greatest ease. The proprietor of the Auckland Hotel, a large establishment which extends right through from Queen-street to High-street, and has "bars" in both streets, was recently charged in the Police Court with thereby infringing the Act. The defence was very ingenious. It was contended that as the Act provided there should only be ons " bar " in any one street that was no reason why there should not be a second bar in a different street. The Court accepted this interpretation of the law, and thus all hotels with two frontages, in different streets, will be able to rejoice in a plurality of" bars."
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 867, 28 September 1871, Page 3
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546GENERAL NEWS. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 867, 28 September 1871, Page 3
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