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Waipawa Mail, Volume I, Issue 13, 26 October 1878, Page 3

A WoNiiKitKui, Cricketer. —A young cricketer in Tasmania appears to have been making his mark in that colony. A his brother,* shines as a trundler.' His pitclT is good, his delivery easy, bis pace terrific; and recently, in the match Oriels on v. Clarence, lie cut a piece out of Braithwiiitc’s linger, bowled the sole clean out of Quinn’s boot, cut Grant's temple, sever*ml the heel of Young's understanding, and blackened both Rowland’s eyes by his fearful shooters." Young Bailey is also stated t«» have a good break t«r the oft and off. We should think he could break anything ; and would suggest that his team ought to provide a surgeon as an emergency man. Destruction ok a Bridge in Otago.— The Tuapeka Times has the following about the Balclutha bride :— ** None of man's handiwork in the form of dray or waggon bridges lias proved capable of iesistmg the mighty torrent of the Molyneu.x. The Chitha traffic bridge, which cost the country £14,000, and which, it was thought, was proof against all Hoods, lias at la-t given way. Tiie piers, which consisted of a series of piles closely built together, serin to have been its weakest part, for one of them got uiiderniinded and was completely washed away, submerging the platform at the centre two or three feet in the stream. These casualties on the river will take a long while to repair, and without large (iovermn.-at assistancc, the counties cannot possibly do anything.” An Entertaining Girl. —The AngloAmerican Times relates the following : A penniless English girl, just 25 years ago, started harness-making and saddlery in a Pearl street loft. New York. She sold what was manufactured about the city so well as soon to employ journeymen, and in six years had built a large business, making every State acquainted with her wares. She invented machinery for harness making, first used the sewingmachine on leather, secured a monopoly on horse bonnets by purchasing all the patents on them, anil for years has orthe whole of a five-storey warehouse in Warren-street, employing KM) workmen. This lady. Miss Emma Bartlett, has just died at 'New Yok, leaving a large j >roperty, the accumulation of her own earnings. The Wreck of the Felix Stowe.— 'Piie Otaki correspondent- of tin* N. Z Times sends the following particulars of an inquest hold there on the Kith on the boilies of two seamen who lost their lives by the wreck of the Felix Stowe : —The inquest* was held before Hr. Hewson, coroner, on the bodies of two seamen washed ashore. Their names were John Newman Giuliani, apprentice, and Patrick Earrell. A. 13. It appears that Captain Pigolt ordered his men to avail themselves of a boat that came off to the ship. In the attempt both himself and three scale -n were drowned. The bodies of Captain Pigott and Alexander Lament have not yet been recovered. Europeans, halfcastes, and Maoris vied with each other in acts of daring gallantly, and m *t with the warmest “ulogy from the foreman of tic jury. William Jenkins, I Lector McDonald, Tai Tuer, and Mar.:, were the fir-d to venture off, and they su eeeded in bringing the captain’s wife ashore. The Future Li--ex-sing Bill. —ln the House oil Tuesday the Hon. the Minister of Justice stated that the Licensing I’ill, which had b en drafted for introduction this session, was abandoned, because on reflection he considered it unfair teat any legislation on this subject should be framed ou the assumption that licensed victuallers were all rogues. He would not promise to draft another Bill, but if lie did lie would take care that it should he circulated during the recess. Publicans’ licenses now formed part of the revenue of local bodies, and consequ ntly tiy material reduction of those fees would result iu a demand for compensation from those local bodies whose re-v.-nu *s would be redu ed thereby. The r-.-mtiou of me difficulty in Ins opinion would be to give the local bodies discretionary powers as to the amount of licensing fees to bo cuaige-J.—Ev«. ning , Chronicle.