similarly marvellous escapes - one in George street, another at the Marina, and a third in Gensing road; each of them by the fall of coping or plaster.
Another Escape of a seemingly providential character occurred on the 29th of April. Some excavators had just left their work for breakfast when some overhanging mass of cliff at the West Marina, or (more correctly) at the west of St. Leonards, fell with a fearful crash, depositing at and around the spot the workmen had just quitted, tons upon tons of sand-stone, clay and loose earth, and which, had the accident occurred a minute or two earlier, must have completely buried them, without, apparently any chance of escape.
Several Accidents occurred during the week which ended on June 27th, but not of a very serious character. The first happened to a waggon which had its locomotion suddenly arrested by the giving way of one of its axles. The next was the falling down of a rather valuable horse and his getting up with broken knees. The third was the falling from his horse of Mr. Lulham, the dwarf known as "Little Jerry", who suffered concussion of the head and was otherwise pretty much shaken. He was taken into Mr. Hemsted's chemist's shop, and promptly attended to. He suffered but slight inconvenience from the said fall. The fourth accident was similar to the first and was quickly repaired. It was the upsetting of a cart through some derangement of its wheels or axles.
The Next Accident was described in the St. Leonards Gazette as follows:- "Well I never! Did you ever? Whatever can be the matter? ejaculated a worthy dame, the other day, as she attempted for the twentieth time to draw water from the public source. 'Here have I got bushels of clothes to git hom dis werry dee, and o'my to think dem ere fellers wot water the streets should rob us of all our water and wery like our bread too!" Poor woman! we could but sympathize(sic) with her, as from the same - to her unknown - cause we had that morning been deprived of our usual infusion of 'Mocha'. We do not, however wish to insinuate that the watering of the streets had anything to do with it. The fact is that the general drainage operations had disturbed and broken the water main of the high level service and for two or three days many house were deprived of their usual supply of that most essential of all commodities - water!
A Workman Injured. On the 1st of July, one of Messrs. Hughes and Hunter's workmen while employed in the excavations near to Grand parade, was severely struck by a heavy piece of timber twice falling on his head. The poor fellow was at first thought to be dead, but after a few minutes, he sufficiently revived to walk, with assistance, to the shop of Mr. Hempsted's where he remained till the arrival of Dr. Marks. A draught was administered to him and he was led home. It -
