CAMBRIDGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 896, 27 September 1866, Page 5

CAMBRIDGE.

(FEOII OtJlt OWN CO-RESPONDENT.) September 19. A veuy melancholy accident occurred hero on Sun--, day last. On the afternoon of that day a number of children gat into the ferry-boat during tho temporary ( absence of the boatman, and amused themselves by pulling backwards and forwards from the beach by the rope. They seemed to have imagined they had/ got adrift, and immediately jumped ashore, with the, exception of one poor boy mimed Brien, about seven years of age, -who, beiug unable to spring tho dUtancoJ on trying it, fell into the river, and before any help! oould be obUiined, was swept away by the poworful current which runs hero. The body h*s not yot been, found. fl

The Pakekara Bedoubthas this week been levelled by order, I believe, of tho Colonel commanding, «nd tho detachment of tho Keghnent occupying it has returned to h.:ai-quarters. A redoubt, situated in a very commanding position, called the " Crow's Nest," is still occupied by a detachment of the Ist Regiment.

Colonel Lyon, commanding the Regiment, paid ub a visit for a few days, and returned to Auckland in the beginning of tho week. The u-uai Resident Magistrate's Court was held on Tuesday last, before R. Muinwaring, Esq., R.M*> \V. C. Lyon, Esq., and W. Clare, Esq., JF.'a. Among other cases heard was one in which Dr. Sam appeared to answer a charge of assault preferred against him by Edward Lambert, hits shool-master-sergeant. Our worthy Esculapms was this this time, however, so clearly in tho light that the Bench, without hesitation, dismusfld the charge.