ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1189, 10 June 1884, Page 1

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

The child, Sirong, who had been missing at Aratapu, Auckland, was found by a search party, drowned at Brown's ArPtapu sawmills. Charles Anderson, a Prussian or Bane, was lost overboard from the cutter Four Sisters, off Tiri Tin, He was alone on deck, and at the whee'. On the master coming on deck he found Anderson missing. The case of indecent assault against Capoaiu Scotland, of the ship Crusader (now at Auckland) has been remanded for a week, bail being allowed, himcelf in £IOO, and two sureties in the same amount.

A case came before the Resident Magistrate at Dunedin, on Friday in which a young man over six feet in height put in a claim of infancy. It was shown that he bought some 68 cords of wood, paid £5 on account, and offered to compromise for the rest. He afterwards set up the above plea, as he wanted twelve days of twenty-one. The Magistrate sa<d it wes an unsatisfactory case, but he could do nothing but decide according to the law, which did not hold the defendant responsible. On Fridny, Patrick Quill, a resident of Rangiora, who w.-is looking at a threshing machine on the farm of Mr K. Mcintosh, had his left arm tor i out of the socket. It appears the machine became choked with sheaves, and he was in the act of pushing them on to the drum, when hi« hand drawn in. 'Medical assistance was sent for, and Dr Downs atfended, who advised the removal of the sufferer hy the mi<i-di»y train to the Christchurch Rospiiat. The unfortunate man haa a wife add seven children.

A man named Hos«, employed at the Mount Hutt Station, met with a very serious accident on Thursday afternoon. He was driving a diay, partly la'len with wire, on the Mount Hutt road, and through some cause not yet ascertained, a quantify of wire fell off the dray on to Hose. A piece of the wire penetrated the abdomen of tiie poor fallow. He was shortly afterwards di>covered and taken to Mount Hu»t. Dr Itoss.nns sent for, who on au-ival at Mount Hutt found that ihe wire had drawn out pari; of the intestines of the unfortunate man. After his injuries had been attended to Jtiose was removed to Patton's Methven Hole], and conveyed to tho Ashburton HosoLal on Friday morning.—Press. The Press says that Adelaide Cass, the wife of Berry Cass, residing, at Kelly's roud, Christenurch, committed suicid* on .Friday. Shortly after five o'clock she •l.ei!t home, to visit a neighbor, Mrs Morrison. Her daughter wanted to go with her, but was refused. However, she followed, and joined her mother at the house, and sat with her while she had a galvanic shock. Mrs Morrison and Miss Cass then went outside to get some milk, but in a few minutes, hearing a noise, they returned and found Mrs Caas with her'tli'roiit cut. 'Miss 1 Cass ran home for her father, and Dr Mickle was sent for, but the unfortunate woman was dead before either arrived. She had beenln a depressed state of - mind for some time, and shortly before had [attempted to poison herself. Her family had therefore been watching her closely. A lad employed at the Government Printing Office, Wellington, had a miraculous escape from a serioui accident on Friday. In attempting to reduce the speed of a printing machine by catching hold of the belt, he was carried up to the ceiling by the leather band. His dangerour position was observed hy one of the men about the room, and he w;is released before he had sustained consideniDle injury-