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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1047, 20 June 1871, Page 2

An accident occurred to-day on board the p.s. Luna, by which two of the hands were injured. Some of t-.be men were below, steaming out a tallow-cask, when the head suddenly burst out of the cask, and they were enveloped in steam. The second engineer (Mi J. Massey) and a • stoker named Nolan were severely scalded—the latter especially, about the face and upper part of the body. The injuries.received by the second engineer, we hear, are not of a serious nature; but those- sustained by Nolan were so severe as to necessitate his removal to the Provincial Hospital. In the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, R. G. Hawes was charged by R. Marshall, a neighbor, with having, " on the lstfday of June, at, Papakura, done certain offensive acts calculated to provoke the said R. Marshall to commit a breach of the peace, the said R. Marshall being bound over to keep the peace towards the said R G Hawes" separate informations were laid, and Mr Stedman appeared in support of the complaint. The acts complained of consisted in shooting certain pigs, the property of complainant, the defendant asserting that the said pigs were trespassing on his ground and destroying his crops, and the complainant maintaining that when they were shot they were on the public road, and that his family were endangered by the shooting. One information was dismissed, and the consideration of the orher was adjourned till this afternoon.—Charles Focett, William Willis, and Frank McCarthy, were charged by James Dompsey with having feloniously taken and driven away a gelding, value .£lO, his property. On the names of the accused being? called, Willis did not appear, which was accounted for by Focett, who said chat, from the action of the

prosecution, they believed the charge to bo abandoned. Willis was now at Tongoio. Mr Stedman applied for a warrant, which was ordered to issue. Fooett and McCarthy were then bound over, on their own recognizance?,, in the sum of £2O, to appear on Thursday. Captain Rentier, of the Rangatiia, informs us that during that vessel's passage from Wellington to this port, a collision with the ss. Lord Ashley off Flat Point was narrowly avoided, in consequence of the officer in charge of that vessel putting the helm starboard instead of to port., when meeting the Rangatira nearly end being in contravention to the rules laid dovyn by the Boat d of Trade in England. The English Mail via Suez did not come to hand to day as expected, it noc having reached Wellington when - the Rangatira left that port.