ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1172, 1 May 1884, Page 1

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES, ETC.

At a fire in Auckland on Monday, morning Senior Branchman Harley and Brnnchmen Moore and Heaps took the hose upon a verandah to play upon the flames, when the verandah suddenly gave way, and all fell heavily to the pavement beneath. Harley was injured internally, and suffered severe pain ; Moore was injured in the hip and shoulder, and Heaps broke Ids ankle. A man named Kohert Dulloch, aged fatty, was working in a scoiia pit at Man gere, Auckland, and was loading a cart, when 100 tons of stuff came down, completely burying him. It took seven men an hour and a quarter to uncover his lifeless body. A man working with Idm was also injured ou the chest. Dolloch was a single man. For an aggravated assault on an arresting constable, committed on Sunday morning in Dunedin, George Child, painter, was fined £lO or two month’s imprisonment, and a mate, named Anderson, who tried to assist him, was fined £5, or a month. An accident of a peculiar nature hsppened on Tuesday afternoon at the boiling down establishment of the Wanganui Meat Company, situated about a mil® from town, on the north railway line. _ A vat full of boiling fat exploded snd blew the roof off the buildings. The top of the vat was sent about eighty yards. No injury was done to anyone beyond that two men who were some yards from the building got covered with fat and were sliehtly scalded. The concussion was heard a long distance away.