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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 965, 11 March 1871, Page 3

Fiji advices to the l*t March report that the schooner Marion Renny visited Cherry Tsland seeking labor. Mr Rae (the owner) and a boat's crew went on shore. Two canoes put off to the ship, and after boarding it attacked the crew, and killed Mr Dirk (the mate) and two seamen, The steward and the remainder of the crew then drove them off. Mr Rae and the boat's crew were killed ashore. One of the schooner's crew, who had been wounded on shoie, be came delirou*, and afterwards shot the steward dead. The ciew was now re duced to four Fijians, and they took the vessel back Lo Levuka.

A fatal accident of a painful character recently occurred at Nelson. We gather the particulars from the Examiner's report of the inquest. On the 23rd February, about 2 p.m, Mrs Elizabeth Marten, aged 53, the wife of a cabinet-maker, was in an up-stair room, when the door-bell was rung. She rose to answer it, and fell down the stairs. Pier husband found her at the bottom of the stairs in an insensible state. On recovering consciousness she complained of a feeling of pressuie and great pain in her head, and seemed very ill. Her husband would have gone for a doctor, but she begged him not to leave her. About 8 p.m. a medical feirtleman was seut for, who promptly v ame, but only in time to be present when she expired. The only visible injury was a severe bruise under the right ear. The medical gentleman gave his opinion that the blow had ruptured a blood vessel on the brain, producing compression of that organ, and the jury returned a verdict accordingly.