TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5694, 29 November 1889, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

The following cablegram has been received by Dalgety and Co. (limited): — "Tho wool sales opened on tho 2Bth inst. Largo numbur buyore. Competition very animated. Moderate silection. Prit:<;s are eight to ten per cent, higher. No selection at all in crossbred*."

We note from our Inverness papers that at the ono hundred and first anniversary of tho great Highland gathering hold at Inverness last September the high jump was tied for between Wm. Mac Donald (of Cullodon Moor) and A. Hendry (of Dyce) at sft. oin. At our own Caledonian gathering lest January the same event was tied for between F. Meyrick and D. Macfarlano (of Maraekakaho) at sft. Ofiu.

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Our Waipawa correspondent writes as follows this afternoon:—An inquest was held last evening at the Courthouse, Ormondville, on view of the body of Elena Martha Dance, before Mr S. Johnson, oorouer, and a respectable jury, of which Mr R. R. Groom was foreman. The facts are brief. The little girl was six and a-half years old, and residpd with her parents near tho banks of the Haugiatigiora creek, the small stream, that ruus beneath the trestle bridge just on this side of Ormondville. Yesterday forenoon the ohild was seen playing -with her doll at the back gate; five minutes later her mother and Mrs Higham, a visitor, suddenly missed the. child, and were attracted by the barking of a dog to a place on the riverside where ihey found the child lying on its back in water, the head kept underneath by a small log that had fallen across the stomach, evidently pulled down in tho struggle to get out of the hole. On one Bide of the water was a log of dead wood, and it is surmised that the smaller piece lay against it. In the hole" were the doll's clothes and a tin " billy" on the side, as if she had been playing at washing them, and in so doing, or while getting water from the hole, had fallon in. The place is very lonely, and except those named, there was no one in the vicinity. The body was taken out by the mother and her friend, and means taken at once to try to restore animation, meantime the fhild's elder sister ran to the township for Mr Hyde and Dr Leslie, both of whom attended, and continued their efforts for an hour and a-half longer, but without result. Tho jury found that the child was accidentally drowned, that no blame attached to any person, and all that was possible was done to restore animation. They hlro added the following rider: — " Tho jury, on considering the frequency of deaths by drowning, are of opinion that measures should be taken to ensure ft wider knowledge of the rules for restoring the apparently drowned, and to that end strongly recommend that copies of the ' rules' should be obtained from the proper authorities and hung in conspicuous and public places." The Coroner paid he had arranged -with one paper to publiela wliat they referred to, and would do more in tho same direction. lam told that Mr Westalj, the school teacher there, does teach hie children practically what to do in such emergencies.