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Western Star, Issue 778, 26 September 1883, Page 3

A hoarding-house at Te Aro Flat, "Wellington, 1 lie property E. (Grear, and occupied by E. Mullens, was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning. The building was insured for £2OO, and the furniture for £250, both in the London, Liverpool and (Globe offices. Incendiarism is suspected. The inmates, numbering 14 persons, principally navvies, on being aroused, found the doors carefully fastened, and only to beopened by. violent means. They therefore escaped by means of the chimney. Nothing was saved. Letectives are engaged inquiring into the matter. The “ Tablet” states that Mr J. E. Eedmond, M.P., will probably arrive at the Bluff towards the end of the present month, and will address a meeting a; Invercargill, whence he will come to Dunedin.

A child 14 months old, son of Mr Frazer, hotelkeeper at Albury, was drowned on Saturday iu a waterhole. During last season the quartz reefs at Macetown yielded 4300 ounces of gold from 3200 tons, or an average of loz 7dwt per ton. The incoming season is expected to be very prosperous.

A man named Henry David Boatman

fell dead in Wellington on Thursday afternoon, while he was attending the funeral of an old Maori. The supposed cause of death was heart disease. The following telegram has been received at Brisbane from Maekay relative to the recent terrible massacre by the natives of Apia:—“Theschooner Laviaia left Maekay on Juno 21, and reached Apia on August 25 Here she lauded some returned islanders. Next day, in compliance with a request by the natives, Captain Smith sent a boat ashore. The Lavinia at this time

was lying half a mile off. Some time afterwards, hearing a shot fired, tho captain immediately sent another boat near to the shore where be picked up three of tho first boat’s crew, who hail swam off to the ship when the attack was made. The crew at once went lo recover the first boat, in which they found the second mate, still alive but dangerously tomahawked ; also the Government agent, Mr Steadman,

quile dead, who had been terribly mutilated. All the living and dead were taken back to the vessel again. A second party then went ashore, where they found one of the first boat’s crew dead, and near him a trade-box empty. The murderers had evidently committed the savage deed for the sake of plunder, as they had stripped tho body of the mate and (Government agent of nearly everything. Captain Smith of the Lavinia took the dead bodies of ihe two whites and two islanders who were in his schooner to Havannah Harbor, where they were butied. He subsequently gave information to bo handed to an English man-of-war, after which he sailed at once, and readied Maekay on Mondav hist.”

Presence of mind is rare enough at any time (says the “ Gfrev River Argus, ’), even amongst men of mature years, to be worthy of special mention. How much more so in the case of a boy just into his teens. A youngster named Lodge, not turned Lis fourteenth year, yesterday acquitted himself so as to elicit tho admiration of all who witnessed the prompt and cool way in which he rescued another lad of about his own age from a watery grave. A boy named Baxter managed to fall from the steamer Manawatu into the river. The little fellow seemed dazed, and made no effort to swim. He had sunk beneath the surface once or twice, and seemed to he quite lifeless. There were some men looking on, but while they were apparently writing for an idea, young Lodge swarmed down one of the piles, and as the drowning boy floated on the surface again, the little fellow got his too under him and guided him closer to the wharf. As soon as Baxter’s hand touched Lodge’s foot he seemed to dutch it instinctively. In fact Lodge told him to hang on to his foot for his life. As he drew the boy in with bis foot he reached Ins hand out, clasping tho pile with the other, and caught Baxter by the arm. lie held him so for a minute or two until the chief officer of the Tvlalimapua ran down and relieved the little fellow of his burden. There' was a dash and coolness about the way the thing w-.s dune that is not easily described. The only one who s'-umeu to think nothing ol it was young Lodge. Flies and Bugs,— BcclJi s, insects, roadies, nuts, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gopher.-, j.id;.rabbits, dear out by “Rough on Rats.” AI.o-es, Muss & Co., Sydney, General Agents,

Wise Folly.— “ For ten years my wife was confined to her he 1 wi'h such a comp'ication of oilmen's that no doctor coul I tell whai was the matter or cure tier, and 1 used up a small fortune in humbug stuff. Six months ago I saw an American flag with Hon B"teis on it, and I thought I would be a fun! oi cc mum. I trieil it, but my felly proved f o be wisdom. Two bottles cured her, she is now as well and strong as any man’s wife, and it cost me only two dollars.”—lf. W , Detroit, Mich. Read.

Can’t preach Good.—No man can do a good job of work, preach a good sermon, try a lawsuit well, doctor a patient, or write a good ar<i le when be feels miserable and dull, witli sluggish brain and unstrung nerve?, and none should make the attempt in such a condition when it can be so easily and cheaply removed by a little Hop Bitters. Look for.