LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2061, 7 April 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

+ THE TRIAL OF JAMES WYLDE FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. [prom our own correspondent.] Hokitika, April 7, 10.33 a.m. Jas. Wylde is acquitted of the charges brought yesterday. The Crown have withdrawn all the other cases. In the first case a sentence of twelve months’ imprisonment has been passed. [NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] New Plymouth, April 5. A woman named Wooflpite was found hanging by a rope from a tree at Stratford yesterday. She had shown signs of depressed spirits for some days, but there was not reason to suppose she meditated suicide. Wellington, April 5. The Supreme Court criminal sessions concluded to-day. Wm. Foreman, formerly captain of the schooner Julius Vogel, was sentenced to three years, on a charge of forging a receipt, and two years for embezzlement, the sentences to run concurrently. Dunedin, April 5. A fatal accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon at Deep Stream section of the Otago Central Railway. Some men were at work removing a large mass of rock projecting over the river. A blast had been fired at one o’clock, and they were afterwards shifting the rock loosened by the shock, when a fragment upon which they stood suddenly gave way. One of the men named Edward Joyce fell over 100 ft. down into the river and was drowned, whilst Wm. Williams, the foreman, fell a great distance, and was found lying on the bank close to the water. His right arm was broken in two places, and two of his ribs were fractured, his collar bone dislocated, and he was farther seriously cut about the face and body. The third man. White, managed to get his fingers into a cleft in the rocks and hung 150 ft above the water until a rope was thrown to him, and he was rescued.

At the inquest yesterday on the body of Joyce, a verdict of accidental - death was returned. Deceased leaves a very large family, and the other man, who is seriously injured, is similarly circumstanced in this respect.