Accidents, Offences, &c.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 223, 30 August 1884, Page 2

Accidents, Offences, &c.

WARING TAYLOR’S BANKRUPTCY. SAW MILL BURNT DOWN. [Per Press Association.] Wellington, August 30. At a meeting of the creditors ot Waring Taylor held yesterday, the Assignee explained his reason for calling the creditors together, viz., that as the bankrupt would again come up for examination on Monday next, he had decided not to take any steps unless specially directed to do so, he having fulfilled his duty in submitting his report to the Court relative tp the affairs of the debtor. Mr. Travers, counsel for the Assignee, pointed out that the Assignee had performed his duty, and was not required to take any further part in the examination except specially directed by the creditois After some discussion as to who should pay the costs if a prosecution was necessary, the following was agreed to—- “ That this meeting empowers the Official Assignee to engage counsel to cross-examine the debtor.” Messrs. Terry and Baillie’s sawmill at Papawai, near Greytown, was burnt to the ground about five yesterday morning. The mill was insured for £6OO in the New Zealand. The engine is only slightly damaged and a small quantity of sawn timber was saved. The origin of the fire is unknown. Christchurch, August 30. Thomas Robertson, traveller for Mason Struthers, was to-day committed for trial on a charge of embezzling £2B, and stealing saddlery of the value of £lB. Nelson, August 30. A human skull and some bones have been discovered on Bird Island, on the Waimea Sands, which, it appears, must have been there a long time, and apparently no clue is possible. Dunedin, August 30. It has transpired, with regard to the cases of jumping from the Seacliffe asylum windows, that one case at least of rather a serious nature has occurred. It was that of the same patient who formerly, at Hume’s private asylum, tried to cut another’s throat. He appears to have been left unattended in an upper room at Seacliffe, to which he had been transferred, and forced open a shutter in some way, and jumped from the window, a distance of 30 feet. Fortunately, he fell on soft clay, and sustained no permanent injury, though he was laid up for some time. Owing to the unfinished state of the building, a patient, named Marisco, from Invercargill, got out of a window on the ground floor and hid in a cellar for some hours.