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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7285, 12 August 1893, Page 3

| There ia some talk ia lb;..!; district. c,f inI Tifc ; nt» Mr T. Bracken to become a candid.to for the Wai '■avapa seat The iimavu branch of the Amalgamated Shearers’ and Labourers’ Union hold a meeting in the Oddfellows’ hali next Uh-orsday evening, 17fcb inefc., at which His Worship the Mayor will preside. In reference to the complaints made to the Levels Road Board the other day about people riding on the footpath on Glen-iti road, and the board’s doubt whether they have power to summon anyone for riding on the path, it may bo pointed out that the Public Works Act, section 102, makes it an offence to ride or drive a horse or vehicle on a footpath constructed for foot passengers only, the penalty being any sum not exceeding £5 All that is necessary is for someone to lay an information against an offender, and give the necessary evidence sgiinet him. Unfortunately thus is just what people do not like to do.

Judging by ail account? (?«ys (.be Wellington Press) the 451 train from Puimerstcn had a narrow escape on Thursday night Bo far as we can gather, a Maori who lives close to Ohau went out ab mt 5 30 p.m. to inspect his stock. Upon approaching the Wuikawa stream he noticed that it had pait'y changed its course and eaten away tno approach to the railway bridge, leaving the rails suspended in the air. Knowing that the North train was due (hero about 6.40 p.m., ho hurried towards Ohau, and was in time to stop the train, which, owing to the terrible nature of the weather, was about half an hour late. The passengers got up a subscription list in the train for the Native who had thus saved their lives. The night was very da k, and there is not the least doubt that a serious accident would have happened had the train attempted to crops (be Winkawa bridge—which, by the way, spans a nerrow but exceedingly deep channel.

I The/c ia reason to of the conduct of certain owners of horses who. indefimce of Borough-By-law No IX, and in disregard of the public safety, dnvo their animals along buplia and frequented streets after dark. The by law forbids the driving of horses in the borough except in Imrne.-s, between 6 Q tn. and 8 p.tu The by-law is broken every day at oil hours, but there is not much to complain of in the breaches that occur bofero night fall. In tiro winter season, however when hundreds of people roust be in the | streets after dark, going home from work 1 after sir, the driving of loose horses is not j only annoying but dangerous. Milch cows may be driven at any hour. In this •• the law is ? bass,” Cows should not be permitted on the streets at all after dusk. They go on the footpaths and pedestrians collide with them ; or they get in the way of honemen and vehicles, and are entirely too stupid to “ keep to the left." If owners of cows say I it would be a hardship to force them to drive ' their cows in daylight in the short winter j evenings, then the cows should be brought i under the provisions of the by-law respecting ] “ driving without lights.” j A few days ego Mr 3, Brown, ex-Mayor of j Wellington, aud his eon Walter, had a narrow j escape from serious hurt through a gas ex- ; plosion in the house. An escape of gas was | noticed, and they located it above the hall. | A step ladder was got, and Mr Brown oscen- i ded to the trap-door with a light, when and- i denly, says the Frcss, an explosion occurred, I and the next he knew was that he was pick- ; ing himself up from the floor, and a second ■ later ho made a dash for the gas melor. In ! the meantime his son, who had been standing > at the foot of the ladder had a most extra-! ordinary experience. As he afterwards put j it, he did not know exactly what occurred, \ but ho felt hira=elf lifted up bodily, whirled i across the room, through the window, and j outside on to the garden, landing on his feet ; in the soft soil. From the hail-way to the ' window through which he crashed was a distance of about 20ft, and the fall from the j window to the garden was another 10 or 12ct, j aud yet when ho lauded ho was totally un- j hurt. Like his father, he at once rushed j for the meter, and greatly astonished bis j worthy parent —who had not noticed his ; son’s flight through apace and the window in | bis own downfall—by the direction he came j from. Mr Brown, the elder, was the greatest j sufferer. Ho received some nasty burns, and will be laid up for a day or two. The dam-I age done intide the building was not vary extensive. j Ladies. -For Afternoon Tea use Attisb- j beook’s Royal Desert and Onslow Biscuits | —-[AdttJ i

Church service §. WR a L U A N C H UllO H. UAjNK TIKEET. SUNDAY, AUCU rr ijjte. Kev. C, i£. Beechoit at 11 and 6 30. Fveain" Sendee for Y omg People, Subject; —“ Whole-hearts dnaas.” rSUM ARC BAPTIST OH UROH H Nor! Ii Street-. KfiV OC. Bbown TO-MOKKOVV (Sunday) at 11 0 and 6.30, MORNING—' Balaam the Gen Tie PropheV’ Numh’-s xxn-xxv. EVENING—‘■is (he ßible a wnolc) a revelation from Go t, or does it merely contain isolated messages from God whi'-h only very clever minds cm discover amidst toe n aov u.dispired portions in-huJcu in the book ?" Luke xxiv 25 27, 4140. MMM Funeral notices. FUNERAL NOTIOiC. /ipHR Friends of the Late Eobeet Gabdil nkb ere respectfully informed that his Funeral will leave his late residence, Claremont, at 11 o'clock on MONDAY, the I4tb, arriving at the Cemetery at half-past one. J. BADCLIFFB, Undertaker. Public Notices. AMALGAMATED SHEARERS' AND LABOURER*' UNION. TIJI4RD BRANCH. A. PUBLIC MEETING will be held IS THE ODDFELLOWS' HALL, ON THURSDAY EVENING, the 17xh INST. His Worship the Mayor will Preside. Addresses by Messrs Imndon, Avery, and Power. Chair to be taken at 8 o’clock sharp.