ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1029, 11 November 1882, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

During the passage of the Loch Urr from London to Auckland, an apprentice named James Francis Pearson fell from the mainyard and was drowned, notwithstanding great efforts which were made to save him.—George Savage, employed by Mr dole at Orakei, left on horseback for the native settlement of Oraikatore, fifteen miles distant. His horse was found in the Punui river, and it is supposed he was drowned while attempting to cross the river, which was mucli swollen. —Dr Smith, of Waipa, was found standing upright in the mud of a creek near his house.—Mrs Scott, wife of Captain Scott, of the s.s. Eovreaa, died suddenly at her residence Onehunga. The Coroner postponed an inquest till Friday in the hope that the Rowena would arrive in port, and that Captain Scott would throw some light on the ma'ter, as there were only the children in the house with Mrs Scott when she died, and they knew nothing. —A teamster named Finlay Lament was killed on Tuesday at Bendigo goldfield, Otago, by the capsizing of a dray.—

A B. Pearson, drowned at Raglan, was a brother-in law to Mrßretagh, manager of Mr Stud holme’s station at Raglan. The friends of the deceased, who was a young man, reside in Canterbury.— Richard Healy and Thomas Stewart — the former a seaman and the latter a bushman—have been arrested at Auckland for the larceny of £2OO worth of jewellery, the property of Scott, a commticial traveller, on the steamer Wellington on her passage from Tauranga - They we r e brought up on Wednesday and remanded for eight days.