Accidents and offences.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1684, 14 April 1886, Page 2

Accidents and offences.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION) Wellington, Tuesday. '- A man named Thomas Allen, employed on Riddiford's station, bas been found drowued at Te Awaiti. A man named Anthony France died suddenly to-day. He was seen sitting on a stack of timber, when he suddenly expired. Auckland, Tuesday. John Hem.ersey, a cellannan at Haucock's brewery, dropped dead today. On arrival of the Bawea, Emily Walsh, a married wcwan, who was accompanied by her husband, was arrested on a chargo of absconding from her creditors with a view to defeating proceedings undar the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, at Blenheim. She was admitted to bail, her husband depositing sureties, lhe accused, a lady like young woman, was remanded. Christchurch, Tuesday. The Criminal sessions ot thn Supreme Court w«re concluded to-day,when Heinnch Mftllhoft,' convicted of manslau liter, was fined £25. The fine was paid. A woman named Mary Fitzsimmons was committed tor trial to-day upon a charge of. assaulting her husband m ft very grevious manner. Napier, Tuesday. The dwelling house of Mr T. Crosse, near Porangnhau, was totally destroyed by fire this morning. Nothing was saved. It was insured for £300 m the National office. Dunediv, Monday.. It is feared that one of the Colonial Bank staff named Go wring has got lost m the country between Lnke Wakatipu and Lake Manapouri. Ha left on a walking tour on the 25th March, and has now been absent a week beyond his time. Tuesday. At the Supreme Court, Peter Silverston, on a chargo of assaulting his daughter 12 years of age, behaved rather strangely, and said " Before God I plead guilty, but not before man." Lawrence Newman and a countryman stated that many believed prisoner not to be m his right mind. The jury,tn finding | prisonor guilty, said that medical ovi- | deuce should have been given, and censured the sou and daughter-in-law for not taking steps when they heard the conversation between father and daughter. He was sentenced to seven years 1 penal servitude.