UNPLEASANT ACCIDENT TO MISS JERVOIS

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7957, 30 August 1887, Page 2

UNPLEASANT ACCIDENT TO MISS JERVOIS

Miss Jerrora, daughter of the Governor, met with a very disagreeable accident on Friday while oat riding in Evan'b Bay Wellington. Her horse took fright, and after galloping some distance, he threw her off: into a^.large hole in which the nightsoil of the city had been deposited. Fortunately the lady was sot seriously hart and she walked over to tho Kilboarnie Hotel close by, where she was supplied with a change of clothing by the landlady, and she then returned to Government House.

The plaintiff and defendant in the defended case in the R.M. Court to-day both Btated that their land as at present bounded is net the area they thought it was wqen they bought it. By what came ont in the case it would seem that each wants to extend his land to its proper limits at the expense of tbe other. The erection of a substantial boundary fence has seemingly been a means of engendering bad feeling between the twain, and* may be will continue to be in the future. Since tbe opening of the Thames goldfield in 1867 up to the end of 1886 the amount of gold obtained ia Btated to have been 1,492,296 ounces, valued at £5,558,148. The County Chairman states that thia does not include the quantities of gold used locally by jewellers and others which may fairly be calculated at £5000 per annum. Some of the employees at the breakwater are engaged in quarrying stone to be nsed in strengthening the railway embankment near the Terminus Hotel, while others are engaged in fixing the new branch line. Mr. Philp, the wharf contractor, is pushing ahead with his work in a manner that shows he intends to take full advantage of the present favorable weather. In' another column will be found an advertisement of Messrs. Thomson & Co.'s "Ginger Ale." Messrs. Thomson & Co. are a Dunedin firm, and from a circular issued by them we learn that they have received medals and highest awards for their manufactures at the Melbourne, Sydney, Dunedin, Christchurch, and Invercargill Exhibitions. Their ginger ale has also been very favourably noticed in the principal English mineral water trade journals and medical journals. The Govern- j ment jAnalyßt, Professor Black, also describes it as comparable with the best imported brands ot similar beverages. We have not had samples sent to us, but no doubt the firm will see to this matter bo that our staff may pass an opinion on the merits of their ginger ale. At the Supreme Court, in chambers, thia morning, probate of the will of James Goodwin,lateof Midhirst, was, on the application of Mr. Govett, granted to Jane Goodwin, the executiix and widow of the deceaaed. The service of oong given by the choir of the Primitive Methodist church last week was repeated at Omata on Monday night to a good attendance. The entertainment will be given at ' Bell Block to-morrow night. Constable Lloyd effected the " capture" of a small boy this afternoon in Devonstreet,'whose crime, if it. might be called one, was straying away from his father, who was engaged in business in the town, aod getting lost. The man in blue was conducting the little fellow, who said he lived at Oakura, to Mr. Weale's boarding bouse in order to leave him there while La instituted enquiries,' when the father vi the boy hove in view and was recognised instantly by the youngster. The Secretary of the Recreation Ground Board has requested us to acknowledge the receipt of a donation from Mr. W. F. Hoskin, of Waitara Weßt, of an old canaon and a 681 b cannon ball. The cannon, we believe, was one used by the Maoris in the war ; and the ball was the one fired by the Naval Brigrade of H.M.S. Pelorue, which did such service during the war uader command of Commodore Saymour, now Lord Aloeoter. Sixteen clerks ia tbe Property Tax

Department have received notice that their services will be dispensed with at the end of the present month, and the hands retained in the Government Printing Office are working at half time. The latest terror of the London streets turns on the newest form of theatrical advertising. With an india-rubber boot, a rubber stamp fixed on the sole thereof, and an inking apparatus worked from the trouser pocket down into the boot, the advertising fiend may soon cover the flagged footpaths with no end of printed announcements. Down goes the foot, and an impression ia left in indelible ink of the " wonderful successes " of bright particular "stars." Longfellow's hero left his- footprints on the sands of time, but our modern advertiser — rubber booted and rubber stamped — is able to leave a countless host of printed footsteps in a single street, no local authority daring to make him afraid.