ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

Evening Star, Issue 3786, 13 April 1875, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

At Kensington yesterday afternoon a boy named William Vennen, about nine years old, was knocked down by a horse and spring cart, the wheel of the latter passing j over him, bnt be escaped with slight bruises. Mr F. Roberts, of Kuriwao, estimates his loss by the fire, which occurred at his station on Tuesday last, at L 1,200. The buildings and contents were insured for only LSOO. Besides the woolshed and stables, there were burned a new buggy, which Mr Roberts had just purchased for L 75; woolpress, value, L 20 0; chaff-cutter, two tons of iron, &c. A Switzers correspondent of the * Xuapeka Times ’ writes : Ah Yee, a Chinaman, committed suicide at the Dome Creek by hanging himself. He was test seen alive on Sunday evening, 4th inst. As he did not return home on Monday, some of his countrymen went in search of him, and fonnd him dead, suspended to a tree. From what I can ascertain, it appears that he was disappointed at being unable to return to China by the last ship (Caroline) which sailed from Port Chalmers thither a short time ago. At tha inquest, which was held before the corou.r (Mr Wood), on the 7th inst., the jury returned a verdict, of ‘suicide in a fit of temporary insanity.’” The Southland papers notice the death of Arthur Grant, a young man of considerable promise, who had bcun onnected, both as pupil and teacher, wi hj 100 ,1 educational institutions. Intended for tno ministry, he had studied at the Otago University, where he obtained a scholarship, among other honors.

A man named William Gibson, who has for some years been a contracting ploughman on Edendale and Seaward Downs, was found dead in the open air at Seaward Downs, on Friday, the 9th inat. The deceased was about thirty-five years of age, and ho had not for the last year or two been a man of very temperate habits.

An accident, attended with very Serious results, happened to one of the workmen named John Fiimmell, employed pile-driving at the dredge between the two jetties, at a few minutes before noon to-day. Fummell v s driving th 3 piles with the monkey, or steam wench (a sol d piece of iron about loewt), when he put his head out, and the wench caught it, and jammed him against a pile. His head wna severely cut, and his face greatiy disfigured, and he was removed to the hospital in an insensible state.