Rumoured. Fatal Accident.
Just as we were 'going to press we received intelligence that a serious or fatal accident had occurred at the works now ill; progress on No. 9 sectien of the Thames Water Kace. /Messengers came in to the Hospital at a quarter to three" for a " stretcher,- but"' up to■:■ the, hqus ot out going to press the body had not been |brought in. The'information' is not very definite as .to whether the man is badly in-/ jjured or killed.. His name is; said to be iLoUghnan.'.?! ,-.■> \; :\' ; f '•n,* l --.-'\ v,
i ' We are infoiined that the law costs of Bergin and party in the case against the Tairua Goldmfning Company amount to £79—this too for a case which never came before the Court for hearing. ;'" THB r s.s. Taranaki arrived 9t ■ the ManukaufromCthe South this morning.. The mail will probably be sent on'by- the* Enterprise this evening. - j ' -■- 'i
"■'How to Win a Woman's Affections. •—One who* professes to" understand thii difficult matter says:~" Don't talk about: * going to work.' to win. the affections of a woman it, can't, be done, that way. .The moreyou go to work the more ,she * won't i like you. Push her into a duck pond and pu)L her out..by.the. hair.._lf you,,,aTe^ ,;; afraid to do this, jump in yourself; and 1et.,,.: her, pull you t .out. Lend her money;,, -. borrow some from her. Make her believe £ she hasvdeeply wronged you, and then 31 forgire her. ~/s Deeply-; wrong; her, and . don't ask to be forgiven. In short, con trive to.lay her under a lasting obligation f to you, .or to lay yourself under a lasting., obligation to her. It does not matter a i headless pin which, so far as the result is - concerned. 1' r .. -^ ... -- " \^.7'\ Positivism/—ln one of the Sunday : schools of the city, when-the lessofrcardg - were passed around vto the 1 classes; th« * cards that came to the infant class had for- - their text ,", What shall ;I: do to be saved ? " Selecting' as the first member of the class to put the question to'a bngkfcf* little girl of only four summers, who, also, by the way, had but just.recovered from a severe attack of croup, -theieacher put,., ; his question, "What must you do to be saved?" The little one preserved si---lence for* a moment, as;if£in deeps' and perplexed . thought, . and their I her face brightened; she had it. "I* would take syrup and alum,".-was the reply, naively ventured. It brought down ; "• the class, .teacher, and all, and further ~ discussion on the subject was postponed. - -7-Dubuqu Times. - ' 1 Travelling in the interior of Brazil, a gentleman put up for a night at a farmhouse furnishedin the primitive, fctyle of 1 the country; but on the table, in companyl ?witb along, tallow.'candle, were placed a-*? -handsome pair of plated snuffers and .its H, I stand, which the owner had received as a present from Bio Janiero.: <^ What : conveniences you invent, in Europe;" said the-Brazilian to his guest. " Before I- - received this-present, I, used, on, taking v off the candle-snuff/to throw, it about the.' I floor—perchance on the bench where I- k was sitting or over ; my clothes; but- now V mark the . difference.'-.. So - saying, he off tho long snuff- between ?Mthrt > thumb and finger, put it carefully into the snuffers, and held them up with a look of triumph at his highly amused ' I spectator. •
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2018, 23 June 1875, Page 2
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