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Western Star, Issue 147, 1 July 1876, Page 3

‘ Jingo,’ in the Saturday Advertiser, telle the following story:—A young man, whose profession is to ‘ go down to the sea in ships,’ having been courting a young girl at a house no great distance from Dodson’s Hotel, Port Chalmers, when walking one night with his fair enslaver on the Bowen Pier, some quarrel ensued between the lovers, and the gay spark threatened to drown himself. Ho sooner said than done, apparently. He sprang into the water, to the great terror of the girl, who at ©nee created an alarm. The dissatisfied lover had disappeared beneath the water, and although every effort was made to render assistance, if practicable, or to bring up the body when all hope of rescuing the victim of disappointed passion had vanished, there was nothing to show for this expenditure of good feeling. Wo understand that several members of the police force, assisted by sympathising bystanders, dragged for a considerable time, but without effect. The truth was, that the disconsolate lover was a capital swimmer and diver, and coil' fcrived through the darkness of the night to get homo unobserved, where he was found next morning comfortably ensconsed between the blankets. Rumour says that the heart of the fair dulcinea is softened, and that the course »f true love is likely to run smoothly henceforth. .At Timaru, John M'Gregor, accountant, for, merly Clerk to the Supreme Court, Ohristehurob, poisoned himself and bis wife on Monday moru-v iog. Both are dead. Some queer names occur in Taranaki. The Budget says Among short men we have a Foot, an Inch, and one still Smaller; but the man who caps all lives in the Waiwakaiho District, for he is but a Spec. His children, of oourse, put the set on the lot, for they are much smaller Specks than their father. i Mrs Clark Gains, who is suing the city of N cw Orleans for the recovery of an estate, has b cen offered 2,£00,000d0l to assign her rights to a speculative pool made up in Hew York.