LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2073, 21 April 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, April 20. The six o’clock train from Onehnnga, when rounding a curve, knocked a woman off the line with the cow-catcher. On the train stopping and picking her np it was found that her skull was fractured, right arm broken, and foot nearly cut off. Medical aid was quickly secured, but there is no hope of her recovery. She was identified as Mrs Lee, who gave evidence in the Priestly and Hamilton murder case. It is not known how she got on the line. Napier, April 20. At the inquest on the body of John Smith, who lost bis life at a sawmill at Waipukurau yesterday, the evidence showed that deceased, who was walking' nearer the saw than was necessary, was at one end the log and his brother (E. Smith) at the other. Deceased was not seen by either of the three witnesses to fall, but they suddenly heard a loud call or scream, followed by an unusual sound from the saw. They then saw deceased lying motionless on the bench, with the saw buried in his body. The engine was stopped almost at the same time as the cry was heard, but when those

near deceased ran up to the bench he was found to be quite dead, and his body cut in two. The saw had entered deceased’s body at the right side of his neck, severing the arm at the right shoulder, cutting through the chest in. an oblique direction, and coming almost out at the right hip. All the witnesses agree that death must have been instantaneous. Wellington, April 20. The Hawea, which arrived from the north this morning, brought down the Maori convicts, the ex-prophet Mahuki, and seven of his fellow prisoners, who were sentenced to short terms of imprisonment for an outrage on the Government surveyors, and for highway robbery <kc. They have been, removed to Wellington Gaol, where they will serve their time. The other native prisoners were left at Nelson in passing, and will be detained in durance there.