ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1199, 3 July 1884, Page 1

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Exchange Hall, Wiuton, (Southland), with two shops in front of the building, was destroyed by fire on Sunday night about ten o’clock. The fire is stated to have been first seen in a shop occupied hy Mr Coltman, a watchmaker. Nothing was saved from the building but two clocks. Coltman was insured fot £75; the office is unknown ; and the building, the property of Mr Surnau, brewer, for £SOO with ihe Victoria.

The sailing boat Secret was struck by a squall in Auckland Harbor on Monday, and Richard George, the only occupant, was drowned.

Captain Fraser, of the schooner Queen, lost a m m overboaid off North Cape. Philip Ford, agp.d 16, a son of Mr Ford, bakerj shot himself accidentally wbi’e bird-shooting at the North Shore (Auckland.) At Auckland on Monday, William Mogan, for attempting suicide by cutting his throat, was committed for trial, George W. Huntley, for the same offence by cutting an artery in his forearm, was discharged. Michael Kirby was committed for attempted incendiarism at the Presbyterian Church.

A few days aso Mr F. F. Sale, who was well known in the Ashburton district, met with an accident which terminated fatally nt four o’clock on Saturday morning. Mr Sale was at Mesopotamia, where he •vaa ongMged building a house, in conjunction with MrC. J. W. Cookson, jun. At the time of the accident''Mr Sale w«.« uaing an adze,- which slipped and inflicted a wound on the calf of' his leg. M* Cookson immediately rode into Geraldine and described the nature of the wound t> Dr Fish, who thought it was not dangerous, but advised that if the wound gi t worse Mr Sale should be taken to Ashburton. On Mr Cookson returning t* Mesopotamia he found the injured limi was very much discolored and swollen, anti mortification setting in Mr Saif* apired on Saturday morning. The boo} was removed to M»nnt Somers, and take - .; to Mr John Hood’s Hotel.