SAD FATALITY NEAR CHRISTCHURCH. [BY TELEGRAPH. -- PRESS ASSOCIATION.] UNKNOWN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2005, 14 May 1885, Page 3

SAD FATALITY NEAR CHRISTCHURCH. [BY TELEGRAPH. -- PRESS ASSOCIATION. ] UNKNOWN.

A -an oeuuieiue happened at Klinley thi«, afternoon. The inclination to hand is to tlu (Iffct th.it a laboiner n.um'd llngg>, and his wife, left the two-momed cottage they occupied about ten o'clock in the forenoon Tl.eir tin cc children, the eldest bo\, aged 4 jeus and 3 month-, remained behind. The dooi was latched, but not locked, and a t oal hie w.u> left binning in the gtat.\ Mi- Riigg- ietuined at 2 p.m. On enteuny the house -he found it full of -inolve. On tho Hooi l.iv the eldest child, deid, Ins liod% dialled almost to a cinder ; while beside linn lay the> ounge-t child, a boy 11 month- old, burnt se\eiely übout the lo\sci pait of the body. The third child, two yeai-, old, was standing in a corner of tho loom. Mh Britfg- screamed for assistance, and Mr R. P. Hale, who li\es close bv, came, and after lendeung what help he could, lode off and fetched ])r Townsend, by whose ad \ ice the boy was Kjiiio\ed to the Hospitd, whine be lies in a precaiioua state. A hole a foot in diameter was burnt in the floor wheie the body of the dead child was laying, and there was a smallei hole neai it. It is supposed th it hi- clothes c night tire at the grate, and he lolled about the flow till he died.

Till lately Bithop Lujhtfoot has been tne only nnmaniul Uislioj). l)»t the recent appointments of Canon Liddon to tlic Sil of Salishmy, ami of C.uion King to tli.it ot Lincoln, ailonlus the unusual -,pt otade of tluee baeheloia in the Anglican ipis cop.ite. All the tiadihons of the Chinch of England recognise inatnmony as in sep.ii able from tpiscopatj, and the undivided en] o3 mci tot these honors by thiee eontcinpoianes is piob.ibly without parallel for some gcneiations. Ihe annual list of ritepn>ers of the Kilnkihi Town District is open tor inspection •*■*■ "«•' boird s office A\ Aiaiusiik ])o\-\..unff ifitls hnJiMK tlu-ir romplcMon growinff sillnw, mil tliiirskui b.-Lnmin|,' rough or free Lh report to p. rfumo. ointments for a n-stor ition of their hloom All suih shoulil use Amcncin Cos Hop Hltti r-, vvhuh "ill restoie bloom to ih.iks whitem-v. md beauty to their mmpliMon. m.ikinp r eti blood, «ood hc.ilth, md h.ippy smiles Keail Yes ! It is certainly true. Ask any of your friends who have purchased there G irlick andCranwellhiM' mimerous unasked for .md very f.uourable commi nil.itions from countr) customers on then e\ri llent packms of l<urni;tne, Crockery, and Glass, &c. Ladies an\ gentlemen about to furnish should remember thatr Garlick and Cranwell s is Till' Cheap Furnishing Warehouse of Auck land. Furniture to suit all classes nlso Carpets, Floor Cloths and all House Nee e-.-sines If your new house is np.irlj timslu-.1, or you are tfoin;,' to (,'ct married, Mbit d irliLk md Cranwell, Queen-street and Lorne-atrtet, \uck].md IntendinKPU rrh;lsl ' r<ir '' n lnvl " lrAt '^ n « w \ -ti free