CORONER'S INQUESTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 223, 20 September 1880, Page 2

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

An inquest was held at the Bridge Inn; Motueka, on Thursday laafc before Dr. Duffi and ajury, of which Mr jEdelsten.waa fprsr mari^oh the body of Edward' Goldirig. - Th. following-evidence was taken :— ; ] George Lines sworn : T am a farmer re] siding in Ngatimoti. On Wednesday last I was at Motueka, and calied at the Sports-' man's Arms Hotel, and saw deceased sitting on a seat in. the bar. Mr J. Huiit, 'shoemaker j said t® him when he saw me, ./•* There lis a chance, old man, for a lift for ten or eleven' miles if ybu.are going to thjp TableLand with George, meaning me. , I-then. ( went to Buch-j hoiz's store, and : when I came back deceased was sitting -in the cart, He; asked me if I; would give him a ride up. I laughed and said, as you have possession of the: cart I sup-* pose I .shall, have to.; , He had a bottle of; beer in .the cart. When we started he aeemtd; neither drunk, nor sober, but told me he had! been drinking for about three weeks, and| had eaten almost "nothing during the tirae.j I told'him that if I were he I should leave i. off. He said "If I get over this bout I will."! He complained (several times on the road ofi sickness, but was unable to vomit. He plactdj his hand on his sideband said, " Oh, Georgcj I shall throw my heart up." • He got out at! Earthquake Spur. About a mile arid a half 1 from the place where we parted be said that! he heard the noise ef hainmering, wbich was; quite imaginary. He left .me, and I never; saw him again alive. . > By a juror,: We drank about half the heer,| arid the remainder was left in' my cart. Willium Sherman: I am a Bhoemaker; living at Ngatimoti. Deceased came to the; house where I am staying and asked for; lodgings at about 7 p.na. on Tuesday. I toldj him he could not obtain it. He seemed the; worse- for drink. He- spoke of a digger: named "Blowing Bob." 'I advised. him to go! to him, as be lived only about a mile further; on.'- v He made -no reply, and /-went put andunrolled his swag and laid down by the. feidei of the road. I went but -shortly afterwardii and saw that he was covered up, and had! what seemed to be a pillow under his head.; He was taking in avery strange manner, and! as there was no one in the heuae but women! I sent for Messrs Guy aud Remnant, who; both came, and we bathed hiß head with; vinegar and water. I saw him again afUr-j wards, and he spoke rationally. I gave him 1 ' some tea' and bread and butter, and he then sat up. *He complained of inward pain, also of pain in his brain. He said once or twice " it's a case with me," and that he had besa drinking for three weeks. "".'",,';.' ■' j John Arliss Guy : T am a farmer residing at Ngatimoti. I was called on Tuesday * evening- last at a little after 7 ;o'clpck by Miss Remnant to see the deceased. 1 I'immediately _went oyer to where the.__an .was, r ahd heard hjrii calli_g. r{ pufc ,V Oh, my brain." I struck a match,* as ;,the; moon was under fty ;clpud 1 He said's l.have not i'eien-y ou before,' I and then turned*' oyer , onntoiiis* back andi complained of . hi_»b_airiitand%aid^ "Oh, nay 1 Godj.they^arp going|' He then-palled" ofuti ,*', ,Mate 7 ljrate,7giy:e % rrife a 'kniM- PR? dptitj If 11 dpjit." . «Hp then puohis -lj^gKlS' -up-arid:- appeared to ; be feeling-, for hisjkmf c,„ andjihen ; stretched 'out* his llis;' tomahawk*; which was' lying near to hii. • ,'T'caUed to Remnant to stop him from getting it. '" I believe he would .have committed suicide. He then turnedonhis right side, and said "I~ will' sleep." L He was riot quiet many minutes, when he again complained of his bra_q,.and said "They've doctored it/they've doctored it." He continued raving for about half an-hpur and then .became quiet, but did not appear to. slpep. . We went, to him several jtimes, and: found him quiefrs.except .that,.he was breathing heavily and groaning. , "About ten o'clock we managed, to got him- up, and he took* some tea and one piece of ,bread arid butter. He said he had rib appetite and had been drinking for the last three wefeks. We put vinegar rags on; his head. .About. ten minutes to twelve We" returned, and tried to persuade him to have more vinegar rags on, but'he refused. .He said his name was ' Ned Gbl'ding. About ten minutes; after ..twelve l left him, and did riot see him again aliye..; ; .Tbomas Boyes .' ; I am Police, Constable ia Motueka. .Yesterday morning Mr. t Guy came to me arid reported a man ctead; pri the i road at Ngatimoti. * I. started as 1 soon as possible, and found, the body lying- on the road. It was that of Edward Gblding. I produce the articles found on the body. ~ By tbe Foreman: I have not-heard that he had been drinkingfor three' weeks. • I have seen him several times lately, and did not consider, him the iWorse* for dririk.-'^ y'A*.A Verdict was returned to * the /effect that death was caused by excessive drinking.

An inquest was held this_mqrnjng J)efpr.o Lr Broad^Esq, 'coroner, at" the Lunatic Asylum on t thjS body of Jopah)A|hburn, who died in that' institution, on Saturday night from bronchitis., ... A verdict»was,,returned~to thp eTffi.ct H Vha- i dea-b' J .e.ult / c_ Ifrp_.1 frp_. "nittural causes. . ,0,.n. _ M^.______aa.Maia.«M«aa«lMmn_„_____B______B " '

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/This is a time (says the BostohPosiXwhen >s ; Americans we feel like doing a; little ;boastin'g. ; One hundred and four years, agp^ jvrhen we declared ourselves to be a free and people/ 'our. population was ljess jtlian 3,000,00-$ to-gay, according to (general , estimate7iiias74B,oooi,6po:' Boston wa.' thei an insignificant villagefso far as population was concerned, and New England had but a few scattered schools and two colleges. The entire country had but 37 newspapers, and the best of them were not equal to the worst weeklies published .to- . day in the mushroom' towns of- the Rocky Mountain regions.. 1n .17.89 we .badlbut. 75 postoffices. and the mails were carried on horseback over 1900 miles of road at an expense of 32,000 dollars per year. To-day we have 38,000 postoffices, and new ones are being established daily; and the mails are carried over 265,000 miles of postroads at an' annual expense of 29,000,000 dollars.. -We have 141,629 schoolhouses, 63,082 churches, 792 daily newspapers, and over 9000 periodicals of all kinds. Our farms arc valued dt hot'less than 9,262,803,861 dollars; ourfarm r ing implements at 336,879,423 dollars ; and our live stock at 1,525,276,457 dollars. Our farm products in a single year have brought US 2,447,538,658 dollars, and in the same time we have paid in farm wages 310,285,285 dols; Our, crops are bountiful, yes, enormous; and pur exports have reached nearly 475,000,000 dollars. in a twelvemonth. Our manufactories are prosperous. 'In cotton goods we chal-i lenge the world. .In one year our 960 mills turned otit cloth enough to encircle the earth twenty times if made into oue piece, with - still enough left to make every human being, a suit of clothes and furnish each with pieces for patching. , - ', .- , j The Moscow Gazette of; a recent date con--tains a paragraph from the official Semiplo-] tinsk Vedomosti, stating that a terrible horse! plague has broken out in the province near'^ the Chinese frontier. In the Pavlodar and! Karkarlin districts not. a horse remains alive.' The officials are una.le to collect information-; "respecting the losses, because no horses are. left for them to ride upon. Tho postal service j on the postroads has been stopped by the;* death of the posthorses, and in the villages'; the peasants have had to cease farming. The' disease is believed to be the same as that| which f has been raging in Chinese Mongolia; since 1875, and whi.h has* yearly been ad-^ vancing.towards Russia. \ Pastor Hirch of Lintorf attributes a de-;* crease of 9 per cent in suicides in Norway to! the recent legislation against drunkenness,! and he calls attention to the increase ofi sufcide in Germany. j • -A- New-York telegram -s tates —thatf the; Naval Committee of ..the House of Represen-J tatives will ask Congress to 'vote 5,000,000! dollars to complete fourf turret ships on the Delaware river. These ships, say the; Americans, will when finished be among thej most formidable armoured: vessels in the world. ' . . ... . ! Tho splendors of Mrs Edward Guinness'sj ball, (says the London World) must long remain fresh in every recollection. London assembled her beauty and her chivalry in response to the hostess' invitation, and, though] bereft of the presence of royalty, the ball may; fairly be said to have surpassed its; predeces-! sors of last year. It must be confessed: thatj the floor was; very sticky ; but with.so much! to look at, dancing was not, a sine qua. npn.l The roses alone (standing in bushes six -feethigh) must have sent a thrill of envy throughi many a horticultural heart ; and a tendency] to kleptomania was with difficulty suppressed; at the sight of the Duchess of Westminster,! in a black dress spangled with enormous; brilliants, as though she had been overtaken! by .a diamond, hailstorm. -The. Duchess of Marlborough's " f amine" .order shone proudly} on her breast, and mnch admiration was ex-] cited by the jewels of Mrs Donaldson Hudson.] But even the wealth of _ Guinness fades into; insignificance when compared with that ofthe transatlantic millionaire, Mr VanderbiltJ He makes a clear million. a year, by which anyj intelligent person may 'calculate bow much! bs can spend a minute. Some of this golden: tide will flow in the direction \ of ;„ a Scottish house, to" whose exchequer i't-.'jwill not be| unwelcome ; for it is now settled tbat Lord Dupplin .marries Miss YanderbiiiA A | /A telegram from .Gisborne ibfpfras us (Napier Telegraph) that the Poverty Bay settlers are again showing how nece.sary a life in hot water ia to their happiness.; Within the last twelve. months it is ad ton ish-* ib? with What zeal actions for -forcible entry; libel, forgery, perjury^ and other crimes top numerous to mention, ' have been entered? into. Itis nothing to the purpose that in; nearly every case the charges have been; dis-j missed or withdrawn. Hostilities' between; the two parties into whioh society in, that* thirst-begetting town is divided have again) broken out, so our telegram states, but as we; have no desire to be drawn into the mess byj an action for libel we shall not phblish' the; information we have received. . .. ■;. • j Upwards of 20,000 men are at present em-: ployed in various parts of the Caucasus en-j daavoring to check the plague of IciPusts.i Ifc is recorded in the .Russian newspapers; that at Arboshinsky the Archimandrite of, the Nina Cathedral, on observing the locustcloud, rang the church bells, and; Iplacingj himself at the head of the -assembled popu-j lace, worked for twenty-four, hours in des-j troying the insects, leaving, at the end of his} exertions, none alive in the district. Inf many places the populace , have 'been rein-! forced by troops. The area infested stretchesfrom Kars to Astrachaq, and from Astrachan! to the Black Seal. A ' ■ , - j "James, did you divide -your piper ofi chocolate with your brother." A* Jfes, cer--tainly, mamma; I ate the chocolate, andgavej him the motto— he is so fond of reading, youi know." .; \ ; A..;' ,r •"..'•'• ;r:"' : '--[\ '■ \