ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1174, 6 May 1884, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Amy Swainsborough, a cigar divankeeper at Auckland, has been fined £9O, or three months' imprisonment, for sly She was fined a similar amount a short time ago for a like offence. Richard Fletcher, a laborer, aged 50, died suddenly last Saturday night at Tamahan's Hibernian Hotel, Onehunga, Auckland, it is believed from excessive drinking. He got a legacy from Home and spent it all in three weeks. He was married, but lived apart from his wife. At the Supreme Court, New Plymouth, on Saturday, Suiter, charged with arson at Hawera, was found guilty and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment [ A sudden death occurred in a tram car, at Wellington, the other day. A young girl named Paulmir, who had been ill for three or four days with diarrhoea, was being taken to the Hospital for treatment, when the uttered three or four words and expired. A man named Patrick Moran was taken to the Auckland gaol on a charge of drunkenness and died there. Aft«r his death it was discovered that three of his ribs were fractured. At the inquest the jury bronght in a verdict to the effect that death was accelerated by an accidental fracture of the ribs, The police and the prison authorities were acquitted of blame, but the jury expressed the conviction that Moran's dying statement was true that he asked admission to the Hospital and had been refused. Dr Bond House Surgeon of the Hospital, in his evidence denied this, and said Moran had not applied for admission, nor was there any record of his having done so. A telegram from Greymouth ■tales that Peter Philips and John Eraser, miners at Granville, were fatally injured on Friday by the falling in of a tunnel. Air was lot into the tunnel on Saturday morning and Eraser was then alive but died shortly afterwards. It was expected to get both bodies out late on Saturday night. At the Peninsula races Joseph Nutt, riding Mischief in the Hack race, had several bones broken through the mare falling. Edward Willcouks, a laborer employed on the railway, mot with a bad accident on Friday morning at L.yttelton. While helping to shunt trucks, his foot caught in a check rail, and one of the wheel* of the truck went over his leg, croshiug it badly. He was token to the hospital where he died the same night. Mr Nalder, sen., a solicitor, of Akaroa, father of Mr Nalder, solicitor, of Lyttelton, fell dead in the main street of Akaroa on Thursday at uoon. Ho was transacting business a few minutes previously.