MARVELLOUS ESCAPE OF A CHILD.
[PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.I INVEKCABGILL, February 4. The escape of a little boy, David Small, who fell asleep between the raih? near Lumsden on Sa£urd*sri and was run over by a train of twenty-four vehicles, was a marvellous one, and probably due to tha presence of mind of the driver, who, on seeing the deeping child, wisely refrained from blowing the brakes whistle, knowing thae there was not room to pull up on the down grade, and it was likely that if the whistle were blown the child would have lifted his head and been Wiled. As it was the cowcatcher dragged and rolled him about twenty-two yards before he slipped under. He is not severely hurt, but tha loss of a great toe nail and the shaving of the hair from the crown of the head, ap parently by the flanges of the Wheels, show what a miraculous escape he had.
FIRE AT PAPANUI.
