LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1424, 26 April 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

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Wellington, April 25,

A fatal accident occurred at Kaiwarra to-night. An old settler at Tawa Flat named Wm. Peckham, a carter, was driving home from town, and had to ford the Kaiwarra stream, (bridge being under repair). He, however, mistook the road to the ford, and it is supposed that in attempting to turn back the horse and cart slipped over the embankment. The cart was found by two men capsized in the stream, and on search being made Peckham's body was found underneath, life being extinct. Deceased had a nasty gash in his forehead. He leaves a wife and large family. An inquest will be held. At the Magistrate’s Court, Wm. Eden, who was recently fined £4O for sly grog-selling, has been again convicted on a charge of a similar nature, and a fine of £SO was inflicted upon him ; for assaulting the constable who detected him he was sentenced to fourteen days’ hard labor. Christchurch, April 25. A manufactory for potato starch, farinacions food, airowroot, and similar products, is being commenced here on a large scale. Dunedin, April 25. Cashel, a wardsman in the Queenstown Hospital, committed suicide bytaking prussic acid. The cause was jealousy. Graiumstown, April 25. A number of boys whose ages range from 11 to 17, were out shooting at Te Puke, near Paoroa, on Saturday, when one of them named Walter Ritchie, son of the district schoolmaster, got in young Lapsey’s line of fire and bad his brains blown out. Much sympathy is felt for his relations. At the inquest the verdict was that death was the result of accident.

Auckland, April 25

A boat containing four men capsized yesterday evening in Brick Bay, North Shore, being struck by a squall. H enry D rummond and Daniel O’Sullivan were drowned. Drummond leaves a wife and three children. O’Sullivan was recently married. James Allen and

Joseph Dcxgey, single men, saved themselves by swimming asbore. The police have searched for the bodies unsuccessfully. New Plymouth, April 25. A robbery has been committed at the Cape Egmont camp, but the affair is enveloped in mystery. SHOCKING TRAMWAY ACCIDENT AT DUNEDIN Dunedin, April 24. The following are further particulars of the tramway accident in Dunedin on Sunday evening ;—Roslyn is a suburb situated on the hills above Dunedin, and the tramway was started about four months ago. It was worked by an endless wire rope, to which carriages are attached by a gripper. The carriages are provided with a break supposed to be powerful enough to bring them to a standstill whenever applied. Last night the last carriage started up Rattray street for Roslyn, and proceeded some six hundred yards up the hill, the gradient being 1 in 16, when something went wrong with the gear. The general statement is that the man in charge of the break put it off instead of on, and before he could rectify the mistake the carriage commenced to run down the hill, attaining such a speed as it rushed down the incline that all efforts to stop it by means of the break were futile. Three men, Garrett, Speirs, and Stewart jumped off. The rest were unable to get out of the car, which reached the terminus of the line at a fearful rate of speed, and tore through the heavy woodwork and three feet of metal road, turned over on its side and at one moment it appeared probable that it would dash across the footpath into the Crown Hotel. There was plenty of assistance at hand ; the car was righted, and the injured men removed to the Shamrock Hotel. The following is the list: —Andrew Thomson (Thomson, Strang and Co., drapers), cut and braised about the legs ; Thomas Harvey, laborer, cut and bruised; Rossmond Johnson, slightly bruised; William Pearce, bruised and cut about the head ; Leckie, badly bruised, and a long time insensible; Spears, post-office clerk, bruised, cut, and severely shaken ;T. M‘ln tosh, bruised and shaken ; Peter Hanna, very little hurt ; John Conway, bruised ; T. Garrett, skull dreadfully fractured, and the case considered hopeless; Hislop, cut and bruised. The three men who jumped off fared the worst. The sufferers were at once attended by Drs. Brown, Fergusson, DeZouche, Burrows, and McDonald. All but Garrett are doing well.

April 25. All the sufferers by the tramway accident are progressing favorably, Garrett has partially recovered consciousness, and his medical advisers think there is a possibility of his ultimate recovery. It was reported over the town last night that he had died, and in one church a funeral sermon was preached.