Accidents, Offences, &c.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 277, 4 November 1884, Page 2

Accidents, Offences, &c.

(Per Press Association.) Timaru, November 4. A middle-aged man named Thomas Parkes, was arrested at Geraldine on Sunday night, charged with a criminal assault on a girl 13 years of age. He was brought up at the R. M. Court yesterday, and remanded till tomorrow. Two of the pilot’s crew narrowly escaped drowning yesterday in the roadstead. The pilot boat went out to the brigantine Seagull, and the pilot’s crew except Moore and Thompson, got on board, when the boat was dragged under the counter of the vessel and capsized. The men, however, clung to the boat till assistance was sent from the breakwater, A heavy southerly gale was blowing at the time. Oamaru, November 4. At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Wm. Reed and John Reddon were charged with robbery with violence. They stopped a man named Johnstone in the street on Sunday morning and demanded his money, threaten’ ing to knife him. A scuttle ensued, Johnstone being knocked down and roughly handled. He got away and mounted his horse, but was pulled off and knocked down again and robbed of a small sum in silver and his watch chain, which broke as the robbers were trying to take the watch out of Johnstone’s pocket. The prisoners were remanded. Dunedin, November 4. A news agent, named Walker, who cut his throat on Thursday, died in the hospital last night, Christchurch, November 4. An old identity named Wiffiain Bell, was found dead in a cellar at Bahgiora on Sunday. At the inquest yesterday a verdict of death from .apoplexy [was returned. Mrs. Thomas Cusdin, an old resident of Oxford, died suddenly yesterday from apoplexy.