LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2063, 10 April 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[special to kumara times.] FATAL ACCIDENT AT GREYMOUTH PROTECTIVE WORKS. [from our own correspondent,] Greymouth, April 10. 12.13 p.m. A fatal accident took place at the protective works this morning. Whilst a number of men were engaged lifting a heavy stone with the crane, the stays of the crane gave way and the jib fell on a man named James Forrest, mangling him frightfully. He was carried home, but died immediately afterwards. Another workman, named David Austin, had some of his ribs broken. Forrest leaves a wife and seven young children. CAPTURE OF A RUNAWAY. [new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Nelson, April 9. On the 21st October last a warrant was issued against a young man named Frank Hodgson, who is most respectably connected, on a charge of stealing

£SOO from the National Bank at Nelson, in 1881. Accused succeeded in evading the police, and for a considerable time no trace of him could be discovered. About two months ago, from information received, three officers were sent to Wanganui, and reaching there just before daylight surrounded the house, but on searching found that that Hodgson, though he had i’ecently been there, was not sleeping in the house. Frequent attempts to effect a capture having proved ineffectual, Inspector Atcheson in the name of some gentlemen interested in prospecting, chartered a schooner on Friday last for the avowed purpose of prospecting for copper, and securing the services of Mr Ward, native interpreter, sent him with Constable Roske to search the Oroixelles and Pelorus Sound. Mr Ward representing himself as a prospector and also as the uncle of the young man he was eager to discover, and whose photograph he showed, obtained information that he was in the locality, and at break of day on Sunday morning he knocked up the people at a house where the absconder wao supposed to be, and the search revealed that the young man called himself Frederick Bale, and who at first denied his identity, but on seeing Constable Roske be admitted his name, and was taken by land and water to the Croixelles, and brought thence by schooner. He was charged this morning at the Police Court and remanded for a week.