ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

Evening Star, Issue 3791, 19 April 1875, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

It was mentioned abaut a month ago that a memorial had been forwarded, through Mr Steward, M. H. R., to the Minister of Justice with reference to the case of the boy Paterson, who was sent by the Oamaru Bench to the Industrial School at Caversham for twelve months for stealing apples. In reply, the memorialists are informed that the hoy was not convicted, hut was sent to the Reformatory as “ a neglected child” for his ad vantage, and that the Minister of Justice can see no reason for interfering with the decision of the C >urt,

At Oamaru, one Walter Knight has been arrested and remanded on a charge of cutting and wounding John Conchie at Otepopo on the 14th inst. On being charged, Knight said to the arresting constable, “Mi Smith, you would have dene the same if you had been called such names as I was.”

Mr Paiker, R.M. at Oamaru, the other day fined a sly grog-seller named Robert Keenan L 25 and costs.

David Turner, a recent arrival by the ship Wellington, was received into the gaol on Saturday afternoon. He was sentenced in the morning, by Mr Murdoch, H.M., Hawksbury, to two calendar months’ imprisonment fer assault.

A child three years old, named William Warren, was killed at the Limehilis, Winton, on Thursday, by a dray passing over it. It seems that the owner of the dray, a man named Welhnsholm, was loading it with fencing wire at King’s old house, wheu some one hiving fired a guo in the adjacent busn, the horse took fright and bolted with the part. The child was sitting close by amusing itself when the horse bolted, taking the wheel of |the dray completely over its neck and killing it almost instantaneously.