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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7656, 15 June 1896, Page 4

' ''■. A death which is supposed to have been . due to a bito from a katipo spider ocourred at Takaka, Nelson, last week. 'According •,"'■■ to the Nelson Mail, the victim, Mr Thomas : Scott, felt a curious pain in his arm while y -on 'bis '"way homo from a concert. He • attributed it to a splinter or something of that kind, and pricked the affected pact -with a needle, , This did no good, and he .rapidly became worse, and developed .: serious' symptoms, death subsequently ;'■ .', ensuing. , >-", •'• . A miner named Wallace, working at ;. . Blayney, New South Wales, fired a blast '. |n the bottom of the shaft, and as it did ;y :.not go off to time he put his head over f-i./tho shaft to ascertain if the fuse was He was enlightened in less v ; ., time than jc takes to tell it, for the charge J^ exploded, sending up a large piece of rock, •;Wbibb. struck Wallace close to his right yS^yiß. , Fortunately he was not killed. S3j np >j ne people of flawera have a desire to s^i^emulate Chicago and go in for pork. At >. a' recent meeting of the local Chamber of : 7::pomnierce.ihß chairman remarked that L l^tyas.BuiiidU'stry. which had made Chicago, fts4nd*: /would , also make Hawora, or any Sl^pthar district in the colony whioh was first |£in th» field. .. . $$fis/L', party of 208 trained lads from Dr |SV'Barnardo^! Homes leffi Liverpool for SSiOanada recently. ° Including these, 8251 i»;oh^ve'. now, been emigrated by the Homes ||f|t<ilOanttda and the oolonieß of whom 99 l^jpfc&ute have been successful. |^K|^penVis»lßß of autographs in Londoi p^~»h^w rihiHt'Mark Twain's signature tjSfeirtirth'l^s.jSdi' Bret Harte'w Bs, Andrew pfpS»g'B G*> ■ ?)ad- Rider Hnggard's 3s. For |B>J3jiifiei : 4n?orut'Hble, reason Mrs Humphtey l^fiS^aralij'ohti'ography is cotmidered wonl, H|&yWhile Souibey's is only 15s. |pit^;ThepteyailiDg religion of Abyssinia in pMtery oowuptedform of.Ohristjanity.