ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1158, 29 March 1884, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

At Gisborne on Thursday morning Frederick Cox, master tailor, who had been suffering from fever, and was slightly delirious, during the absence of the attendant got out unobserved from his house, and went and drowned himself in the river. Deceased leaves a wife and three children.

. A telegram from New Plymouth states that Mr Perham, Marine Snrveyor, and party, while surveying the mouth of the Mahau river, had their boat capsized by the awe 1 ! on the bar, and were nearly drowned, getting ashore in a most exhausted state.

A telegram from Wellington states that a man named Geo. Lymingtou cut his throat at the Victoria Hotel, Featherston, on Thursday. He was found dead with his head hanging out of the window. An attempt had been made to fire the house.

A boy named Both well, two and a half years old, was kicked to death by a horse on Wednesday evening at Blenheim. The child was missed, and search made by the father and others, who were horrified to find, about 6.30 p.m., the little boy's body, nearly cold, and with its head broken iD, lying in a stockyard adjoining the parents' residence. It is supposed that the child got between the horse's legs, or in some other way attracted its attention, and that a kick smashed the skull.

A man named Michael Whelan has died at the Hamilton Hotel, in Maniototo County, Otago, under peculiar circumstances. Whelan, who was only twentyfour years of age, had been on the spree at Hamilton's hotel for a fortnight. On the night of the 16th he was taken ill after his long debauch, and was put into the stable, in which were two horses. AI four o'clock next morning he was very bad, and died during the day. An inquest was opened, and the post mortem showed that the deceased had serious injuries on his head and body, evidently caused by the horses. The enquiry stands adjourned till the 3rd April.