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Lake County Press, Issue 96, 4 April 1873, Page 3

Fob the first Municipal Council of Nasoby the following gentlemen were elected members;— Messrs L. W. Busche, Michael Brooke*, C. A. de Lautour, James Brown, Hugh Wilson, and James Hore. Mr E. T. George is Mayor. y\Ax actor named Robert Glover, who recently performed in several up-country townships, is in custody upon a charge of stealing a suit of clothes from the Crown Hotel, Switzors, belonging to a hawker named William Felton. He was forwarded to Switzers, on a remand from Dunedin. A ghastly accident happened yesterday afternoon, at the corner of Symonds* street. A number of children were amusing themselves on the footpath leaving a helpless wee thing sitting quietly in the middle of the road. In a moment a loaded express Tan came past at a brisk trot; a scream of terror came from the children, but it was too late, the remorseless wheel of the express had passed over the neck of the little innocent, completely severing the head from the body. Those who saw the occurrence state that no blame cau be attached to the express driver, as it was impossible for him to observe the little thing on the toad until hia horse was close on it. On collecting the the face w as observed to wear the same set waxy smile it ever had, and the adjacent ground was horribly bespattered with sawdust, the little girl that owned it has been bothering her mother ever since to get her * new doll from Harris’ shop, and promises Dev ® r ); 1° leave the next one lying in the raid. * —For originality of conception in advertising, the above, from the Auckland Aventnff Star, is absnt ths best we hsrs •»en. 1