LEITH VALLEY TARGEDY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1751, 11 October 1887, Page 2

LEITH VALLEY TARGEDY.

(UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION.)

DUNEDIN, October 11.

Miss Emma Bury's statement is v follows :— I am a cousin of Mrs Loft's, and reside here in North East Valley. I have done bo for the last six months. A little hefore 11 o'clock to-day, I left home with Mr. and Mrs Loft. We went to bis farm, near the reservoir. We walked about, and were gathering flowers. Loit left us in the bush, and went to put some cows out ot the garden. He returned in about 10 or 15 minutes, and we all went into the farm house. Mrs Loft was arranging some flowers, and she asked : " What do you want to drink to-day for ?" He immediately put his baud iuto his coat pucket, and pulled out a revolver and fired two shots at her, saying " take that," or words to that effect. Mr. Loit tried to get out of the window, but could not. I ran out of the door, and across the paddock, be pursuing. He threw me down, caught me by the throat, and tried to choke me. The last thing I remember is beeiug Air. aud Mrs. Loit sitting down near" the road. Mrs. Loft said, " I atn not long for this world I" I said, "I will get some water." I observed blood on her hand, and she was leaning back against the bank. He said, " I will go with you, but you will have to go to the drain opposite." He gave me bis hat to fetch water. I ran, and made for the firßt house (Reynolds'), aud told the people iv the house what had happened. There were men present, who came out of the house, and took Mrs. Loft to the farmhouse. I did not see Loft afterwards.

•' Rough on tivrs." — ( :I.:jim out ran aiicv. roaches. Hies, ants, ucil-lmga, beetles, insects. sJfuniiS, jack-rabbits, sparrow^ gophers. At chemiate and druggists. I .

• "With regard to the pew gold discoveries in the Waitoa district, Auc'/.land, Mr. Smith, on whose land the gold has been lound, states that a friend had compared some of the celebrated Mount Morgan crushing dirt with his Wuitoti deposit, and the resemblance was most extraordinary. Great interest is said to be taken in the coming boxing contest between Laing (champion of New Zealand) and Richardson (of Victoria), which comes off next Monday evening at Wellington. Richardson is in very active training, and looks well. Laing's backer arrived on Saturday •to put up the final deposit, and is yery confident of his man's victory. This is bis 35th fight without losing a battle. The Taranaki News says the Maoris are becoming quite adepts in law. On Monday, at the Police Court, it was amusing to see how a native met a charge of larceny by proving an alibi, and he brought forward three staunch witnepses, who swore that he was " on the deep blue sea," fishing, at the exact time he was charged with stealing fungus on shore. The natives pulled off their man, and went to the adjacent hotel when the rase was over to drink his health in bumpers. Verily, the natives are becoming civilized at last. The New Zealand Times says: — Mr. Fisher has fairly worked and fought his way up to the very high and honorable position he has now reached. While we have never professed to agree with all his views or to approve all he has done, we have most fully recognised his great abilities, bis resolute perseverance and industry, and his unwearying zeal in public affairs. Few men have had such steady and rapid advancement as he, and few men have more thoroughly cut oirt their own way to the front, or have had less assistance from adventitious aids. He has now splendid opportunities, and it will be his own lault if he do not take a good and permanent place nmong New Zealand's public men. It is reported that there are signs that the Argentine Republic may shortly take the place of New Zealand in the frozen mutton business. In twelve months — from May, 1886, to May of this year— the supply from the Agentine Republic bad increased from 10,184cwt to 33.864cwt, while for the same period the Australasian shipments had only increased from 27,864 to 33,505 cwt. Still, notwithstanding this competition, the value of the New Zealand meat rose from 45s to 55s per cwt., while the Argentine mutton did not average more than 40s per cwt. This says a good deal for the superior quality of the mutton shipped from these colonies. It is reported that, taking all the imports of dead meat into England during the first five months of this year, the weight reached almost 6000 tons, of the value of nearly a mil lon sterling." ' In an article on the new Ministry, the WaDganui Herald says : — Major Atkinson has succeeded in forming a Cabinet. The new Ministry might well be dubbed as that of •• AH the Mediocrities," as it does not contain, outside Major Atkinßon himself, a single man of Parliamentary note orability. Major Atkinson haßnccepted the offices of Premier and Colonial Trensurer, and will certainly have his hands full. In Mr. Mitchelson he has a good man for the post of Minister of Public Works, but not the sort of one he requires at first lieutenant with such a raw crew as those who have been chosen to fill the other vacancies in the Cabinet. Mr. G. F. Richardson, the new Minister of Lands, hails from Southland, where he represents Mataura. He is not a man ot much ability or grasp of subject, and is sure to go the way his party wish. Mr. George Fisher, the idol of the Wellington East electors, has been rewarded with the position of Minister of Education. He is a truculent, pushing man of some ability, but he is not the sort of person to add strength to either a party or a Government, as he is quarrelsome, overbearing, and tricky to a degree. Referring to the letter from Mr. T. W. Gudgeon of Auckland, but formerly of Taranaki, respecting the discovery by him of gold at Omata, in 1857, and which has attracted attention, the Taranaki News believes that an effort iR likely to be made to again prosecute gold prospecting in this district. Some years ago gold was discovered in the Eaitaki ranges, near Okato, and a company was formed for the purpose of developing the find. Quartz was taken to the Thames, and treated there, with an assay result of over 2ozs to the ton. Difficulties cropped up at the time, and further operations were abandoned. Some ot the shareholders of the old company are sanguine that if the Kaitaki ranges are thoroughly prospected a valuable reef will be found, and several gentlemen are now considering the matter of starting another prospecting company. We believe that there would be no difficulty in getting one or two experienced miners to join the company, and during (be ensuing summer the ranges could be thoroughly prospected. The matter is ot such great importance to the district that we hope the sentlemen who are interesting themselves in it will meet with the encouragement and success they deserve. The Waikato Times waxes eloquent over recent gold discoveries. It says :— They are essentially a poor man's field ; anyone with his shovel and dish can work his claim, there. There would be no difficulty, from a miner's point of view, in securing the requisite water supply to any part of the field. Anyone who has been on some of our goldfields, and seen to what infinite labor and ingenuity miners resort to bring water to their workings will smile at the supposed drawbacks in tbat connection in regard to Waitoa. Possibly no greater gift — we may without cant call it heaven sent — has been held out to the general community before, than this. The assays already made of wash dirt taken from several prospects in various parts of the Thames Valley give a general result of £2 to the ton, equal to £38,720 for one acre of 4840 square yards. If the deposits are only four yards in depth, the value of 800 acres at the above rate would, as Mr. T. G. Sandes stated, be £11,616,000. One acre would contain 19,360 tons ot crushing dirt, equivalent to steady work for two years for 100 men earning £4 per week. Is Dot this a poor man's sublime chance ? Shall all this wealth from Nature's own baods be showered into the laps of capitalists only? We do not think the spirit of, the people would yield to that dogma without a murmur.

We clip the following important testimonial from the " Illawarra * 'Mercury" (N.S/W.), on the 30th March. It needs nc comment : — " Mr. John Loveday, of the Bulli Mountain, writes to us that after ■offering for four yean with acute gravel, he has experienced almost complete relief by .» using Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract. He says seeing the said Extract „ advertised in the "Illawarra Mercury," ' his intense suffering induced him to obtain a bottle of the medicine from Mr. Hosking, chemist, of this town, and that the use oi it gave him great relief at once. He state? that between the 10th March instant, when he obtained the first bottle of the extract. and- on the 19th, the use of that medicine continued to afford him relief, to which he had been a stranger for four yeara. Mr Loveday writes also that he has found the Eucalypti Extract a cure for rheumatism .as well as gravel He requests us to pub- . .'Ugh I'tbia1 ' tbia ■ information through the "^e^ ■ euiyt". c We nave much pleasure in complytog- with"Mr.'Loyeday'r request, who»« word cannot be doubted, and who can hay« no object in view other than • pure detirf to benefit suffering humanity."— -Advt

We should Blot oul Dieeaae In its early Stages. The disease coinmenres with a slight derangement of the sloiunih, but. if neglected, it in time involves the hole fr me, embracing the kidneys, liver, p-mcrcas, and in fact thu rutiru ; ! ■minlar system; and the aflictod dr;i n-dn -d o«l a, miserable existence until dc.it h giws n \\»t from suffering. The di^e.isi: is o ten m.staken for other complaints , but if the reader will as.; himself the follow ing questions he will be abk' to det.nnine whether he himself is one of the nfilk tc d ; — Have I distress, pain, or diiKciilty in breathing after eating? is there a dull, heavy feeling, attended by drowsiness T Have the eyes a yellow tinge? Docs a thick, sticky mucous gather about tho gums and teeth in tho mornings, accompanied by a disagreeable ti'.^le? Is t he tornjue coated ? Is there j>;tin in the .-*id s and back? Is there a fullness about i'i<*. right side as if the liver wa? enlargin r Is there costiveness ?. Is tlicio voiUc" or dizziness when rising suddenly from an horizontal position? Are the secretions from the kidneys highly coloured, ~ ill a depositafter standing ? Does food f>-i mrnt soon after eating, accompanied ! ,v 1! ltnl-.ii'jo or belching of >;as fruiu tho Ptoiii.i«-n? Is there frequent palpitation of tl.e lu'.irfc? These various symptoms may not be present at one time, but thny imiiieiU the sufferer in turn as the divfidful disease progresses. If the case be one of long standing, there will b" a dry, hnc'ur. ; cough, attended after a time by exp-ji '">rat: OTi. 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