ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1193, 19 June 1884, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

A.t Auckland, Richard Grisage McGee, son of the well known racehorse proprietor of that name, died somewhat suddenly from tetanus, which arose from what was at first considered to be a trivial injury to the knee.

Edith Eden was committed for trial at Auckland on a charge of bigamy in marrying W. Brinsden Painter, her husband Robert Douse, seaman, being then alive.

A serious panic occurred at the Opera House, Auckland, last Sunday night. Mr Brown was lecturing on the Church of Rome, and the place was packed. _ A number of youths in the vestibule cried out ‘Fire’ and tramped heavily down stairs. Mr Brown attempted to quiet the audience, but the crowd rushed the doors, although some remained quiet. Numbers of women fainted, and some people were slightly injured. The barmaid of the Queen’s Hotel Auckland, attempted suicide last Sunday night by taking poison, She had been upstairs, and, on coming down found her inamorata fooling with another girl. High words ensued, and it ended by her subsequently taking poison. Emetics of mustard and water were successfully administered to the lore stricken maiden.

A tslegram from New Plymouth states that a girl named Lottie Gurney attempted suicide in the Waitara river yesterday morning, but was rescued, A station hand named Thompson, from the Patea district, committed suicide by jumping from Taradsle bridge into the Tutaekuru (Hawke* Bay) on Monday afternoon. Ho had not been drinking, but recently he seemed to have been queer in his ways. It is supposed that h* was insane,

At the inquiry held at Wanganui on Monday, on the body of Ann Briggins, found dead on Brunswick road, the jury returned a verdict that the deceased met her death by drowning while under the influence of drink.

At the inquest on the bodies of Frank Smith and his wife, and ‘ Kerry Thomp«on,’ who ware found in a building burned to th* ground at Le**ton on Saturday morning, nothing fresh was elicited, and the jury brought in a verdict of death from suffocation.

The lambing-down enso against John Adams, of the Swan Hotel, Auckland, broke down *n a technical point, the Gazett* not having been put in showing that the Act was in operation, and that Adams was a licensed inn-keeper, The prosecutor, Thos. Joseph Franks, is a neph«vv of Colonel Franks, and had on him a deposit receipt for £250 on the Colonial Bank, Wanganui. Some lively disclosuies were made.

Bernard Jones, of the Auckland Nava) Artillery, shot himself on Tuesday night with his carbine in bis bedroom, owing to a love affair with a girl named Mary Ann NcKenna, who was leaving Auckland on Wednesday. She was engaged to another young man. The bullet entered his br*a*t over th* haart, coming out at the

| shoulder blade nnd striking the wall. | Jones died at one o'clock. He met the ! girl in the street at 5 p.m., and bade her good-bye, saying she would never him alive again. It is said he had been drinking. John Webber, a laboring min, aged 58 years, committed suicide at Wellington by poisoning himself at 2 o’clock on Friday morning. He is supposed to have been drinking heavily, and tool: L-trydh-nine. At Sydney, N.S.W., a young woman aged 20 years, only five months’ married, has been accidentally killed by her busband through a loaded rifle going off. The crew of the barque Andro Klas (bringing a cargo of sugar from Amoy for the Auckland Sugar Company) were attacked with dropsy and scurvy during the voyage, and were totally prostrated. The officers managed to navigate the vessel. On Monday last when the captain thought they had reached their destination they signalled a passing steamer, which towed them to Onehunga. It waa then they found that the captain had been misled by a very old chart, which placed Auckland on the welt coast of the North Island. Mr Downes, the Deputy Returning Officer for the Eaat Coast election, started out on Sunday. The rivers were very much swollen, and hia horse returned with the saddle, but without the rider. It is feared that Mr Downes is lost.