Sad Fatal Accident.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6888, 8 June 1892, Page 3

Sad Fatal Accident.

Wellington List night. — While the Governor's procession whs passing through Miuiners street this afternoon a hid named Willie Barnes, aged about 11, was run over by a tram, the wheel ot which almost amputated one of the little fellow's legs at the thigh. The lad was quickly taken to the hospital, but died at about rive o'clock. We believe (s.iys the Spectator) that we should be within the mark if we said that of the reading public the public, that is to say, of good education and with a certain pretension to literary taste— not one man in 20 ever reads any poetry at all. ' Since the day I left school, where I had to learn it by heart, I never remember to have read two lines of poetry for my own pleasure,' was a speech overheard from a lady, who had deservedly the reputation of being well instructed and well read in the literature of the day ; and that confession was cheerfully endorsed by more than one of her hearers. Novels, biographies, books of travel, and even works of science, could amuse her or interest her, and give her pleasure — poetry bored her, for she could never see the use of it. And that is the candid opinion of a great many other people. There is nothing, they contend, that is said in poetry that could not be infinitely better expiessed in prose. Church of England Country Services. — Sunday next: Te Karaka 11, Ormond 3, Canon Webb ; Te Arai 3 (Holy Communion) ; Patutahi 7, Rev. Mr Gardiner. — (Advt.) The monthly temperance meeting will be held in the Weslevan Schoolroom to-morrow (Thursday), at 7.30 p.m. All are cordially invited to attend. — (Advt.) The stealing of an umbrella on a clear clay is held to be a theft by a Judge, but the stealing of the same article on a rainy day is held to be justifiable, on the ground of selfdefence. The stealing of a pair of boots is never justifiable ; tney are not worth stealing when you can buy them so cheap at Hennessy's. — (Advt.)