THE WAIAREKA EXPLOSION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 54, 23 June 1876, Page 3

THE WAIAREKA EXPLOSION.

ITIARCK Aii-A-tNST CORHACK. TIER JTDOMKXT. At Wit! R-nsidcufc Magistrate's CWrt,. thekiidi delivered judgment in the case of Jotv.iv M'liiitfk. who was charged yestentay. o» the li'i'iiuvtiim of .r«iHst?pt'v Nancarrow, Chief Inwtnr of Machinery. that, on or about the luitlis Di' March, April, and Hay. at alalia ami C»vf Valley, lis did kmvwmgfy awt •" mrrrasiug of hiw pressure in a steam iilor of (v oerfcaiu locomotive engine (which Us His the time untlisr hU eare and triauagßfufc) Imynnil the pressure stated in the ««r----irate tor she boiUir, dated IK tin "•»i ant I- grunted liy tft<> Inspector ♦>£ Ma* inury for thu Otago District—(!«•> ftdt. t>y .owing mio Ehign.ltl. Mitchell (now »{eceaae«:l). i" w:ts tnuj.Hoyi.Ml by the said John Cor* w-v ;ut the drive* of tfw> said engine. tt» ! ''"wu wif.lv roth) the safety tralv'e of the "I hi'ilt'i 1 , for th« purpose v>t keeping the !,uu }" the saitl boiler. ttrheveby the pres--1(1 "f iu the said boiler became and P IWiittrr than H.lUx to the stjnafe tattv. iH .\ iu'lif-titble olfeuce. ■ t-tlull. addressing Mr. Cormatife. saitt I ,ttVl! pntieufcly listened to the evidence ' Uf.nt l>y the counsel for the prosecution. J;. ' uvv,! since carefully considered the »le* •iti»n oir tlio various witnesses. We have. I' li'vun careful consideration to* the various Wtimis of tin; counsel for the defence—f;tums, .1 may say, purely on legal and 'iiifiil points. Notwithstamling these «b----vvu fuel that sufficient proof has ' l iW J v ai<wtl to send the case to a higher tt may possibly t>w that the ]«•> •' oxpt-rifnoy of the Higher Court may ■' BH»ter weight to the objections thatt '■'Hj Wen. able ti> tlo, W«f think. t«w. •'lUtl h 0 , nore satisfactory fct-» Mr. CorV c 'nusclf that the case' should be tried u!n and if £u: be acquitted. lie ' '•« sum putted by a jury of Ivis Ti... iW tKitvfc tlvat the ilv u. , . " «*- , )s , ' : ust object tt> your Worfj : >'.t on the evidence after IMlvf!"' ' ; h ''- | 't the acciMDKi tcoahi W it, f'i v; utof • 1 few* a legal

F "The accused was then formally committed t r> take his trial at the next sitting of the District Court, to he held in Oatnaru on the 2!>th July. Mr. His lop: What i-ail will your Wor- ' ships allow t Th*; Bench : Mr. Connack*s> j*.-rson;d recognisance in The accused was then hound over, and the Conrt adjourned.*"-