Accidents, Offences, &c.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 213, 19 August 1884, Page 2

Accidents, Offences, &c.

AGRARIAN OUTRAGES IN IRELAND. POPPENS RE-ARRESTED. THE OLD, OLD STORY. CROSSED IN LOVE-RESULT. FORCE OF EXAMPLE. THE MAITAHIA MURDER. LIBEL—VERDICT FOR PLAINTIFF WITH HEAVY DAMAGES. A FINE OF £2SO—THREE MONTHS TO PAY. A SERIES OF FATAL ACCIDENTS. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, August 18. Several agrarian crimes of a serious nature have been committed in Ireland during the past few days. Melbourne, August 19* Poppens, the absconding hotelkeeper from Wellington, who was released on bail last Friday, has been re-arrested at the instance of his surety, who suspected Poppens intended to make his escape. [Per Press Association] . Auckland, August 19. A native youth named Poromo Amakaraka has shot himself at Hoatu, near Cambridge. He had been crossed in love. He was noticed to leave the settlement, and two shots were fired. His relatives went to see what was the matter, and arrived in time to see the third and fatal shot fired. He had tied the gun to a tree, and pulled the trigger with a string. It transpires that there was nothing

felonious in the Kaitai shooting case. Young Larner mistook, at a native gathering, a flax bush for a pig, and fired at him. The native is likely to recover. [This information is rather obscure, but we presume the native who was shot was behind the flax bush.] Wanganui, August 19.

At the inquest on the man named William H. Paice, found burned to death on Sunday, the jury returned a verdict “ That deceased died from the effects of being burnt in a furze hedge, but how the fire occurred there was no evidence to show.” Invercargill, August 19. Pardon’s Hotel, at Athol, on the Invercar-gill-Kingston line, was burned down on Saturday. The insurances were: £5OO in the United on the building, and £350 on stock and furniture in the Hamburg-Magde-burg. Wellington, August 19. At the Supreme Court yesterday, the libel case, Beavis v. Anderson, was heard. Damages were fixed at £3OO. Plaintiff is a butcher residing in Tory-street, and defendant a settler. When proceeding through Torystreet in May last, defendant had a dog poisoned, and as the animal was last seen coming out of plaintiff’s shop, defendant called on him, but could get no satisfaction. Anderson subsequently published a letter and an advertisement in the evening paper, and it was on these plaintiff claimed. The jury gave a verdict for plaintiff with £5OO (s<c) damages. A fatal accident has occurred at the Petone Railway Workshops. A young man named Albert James was engaged fixing a drivingbelt on to a pulley, when he slipped and fell on to the pulley, which threw him on to a saw-bench head first, a distance of 10 feet. He was at once taken to town by a special train, but died just before reaching the hospital. He had only recently arrived from England. Tauranga, August 19. A fatal accident occurred to-day upon the wharf. A carter, named Wm. Kerwin, fell down the hatchway of the steamer Wellington. He was picked up insensible and died shortly after. Blenheim, August 19.

Mr. Philip R. Mcßae, of Wedas Hill, has been fined threepence each on his flock of 20,000 sheep, which are infected with scab. Defendant was given three months to pay the fine, and an application for a remission of the amount is to be laid before the department if the sheep are declared clean by that time.