ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.
A man named John Sinclair was found dead on Saturday mornirjg'in McDonald's boarding house, Kaiapoi. The deceased
had taken some meat to bed with him and was choked in trying to swallow a piece. At the Leeston R.M. Court on Saturday, a man named Logan was charged with larceny and remanded till Friday, with bail of £2O and one surety of £2O Defendant has a sister who is a barmaid at the Leeston Hotel, and wishing to compel her to give up the situation he carried off her box of clothes, valued at £2O. without the landlord's or her permission ; hence the charge of larceny. At Cambridge on Friday, several natives forcibly rescued n horse from Major Green, the Sheriff. It is said that Major Green intends to prosecute one native woman for biting and indecently assaulting him, also that he intends to lay an information against Mr Hay, solicitor, for inciting the natives. At Oamaru on Saturday morning, a child named Caradus was found dead in
bed beside its mother. It is supposed it was overlaid.
The Dunedin Star is to be proceeded against for contempt for publishing an important equity suit on Wednesday. Edgar Bastings, who committed suicide on board the Rotomahana, was a brother of Mr Horace Bastings, formerly M.H.R. He was on a visit to Melbourne for the benefit of his health. He had been a hotelkeeper fur many years. Robert Reid, chief steward of the Koranui, was found dead in his cabin at six o'clock on Saturday uight. A bottle containing about an ounce of laudunum was found underneath him, Reid appears to have been drinking heavily at Lyttelton. The supposed cause of death is heart disease. He had consumed tlireo ounces of laudunum. A serious accident occurred at the Wellington-Manawatu railway works at Paramatta on Friday morning. A blast had been prepared, and, not going off, Richard Dumpey and Robert Jenkins went to examine it, when it suddenly exploded. Both men were seriously hurt, and were removed to the Hospital.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1186, 3 June 1884, Page 3
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339ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC. Temuka Leader, Issue 1186, 3 June 1884, Page 3
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