ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1212, 2 August 1884, Page 1

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Elsmore, of Qrovesfcown, Blenheim, a blind organ-grinder, was charged at Nelson cn Wednesday <vith abusing his own daughter, a little over ten years old. Ho wa» committed for trial. Win. Linton, a young man aged 25 years,, died suddenly at,the Pier Hotel, Napier, on Wednesday morning. At the inquest a verdict was returned of det-th from consumption. At an inquest on the body of the man who died in the street at Auckland, a ver- f diet of death from pulmonary consumption was returned. He gave the name of Robert Nichols to the City Missionary, whilst a pawn ticket found on him was mane out iu .the name pf. Young.; The post mortem •zaiuinTition showed the stomach tola lly| empty ot food, and the body greatly emaciated. He has cince boeti identified' as Frederick Voting, $ painter and signwriter, of Dunedin. A man named Boyce was killed at Hellaby’s ,(Aiiokl,and) by a trolly on Wed-'* hesday last.' ;

At an inquest on the , body .of Jeremiah davagS; who was drowned on the - Castle Point Beach (Wellington) a verdict of found drowned t was returned;' The deceased was ;J ‘gallopihg along the beach, and it is. supposed was thrown from bis horse.

Mr Andrew .Aitkenhead, a well-known farmer at Oamaru, was found dead in his bedroom on Thursday morliing. The cause of his death 1,8 not known, v At the Crdfhwell Pdktioffieei two of the officials, in counting the letters" (moistening thoir fingers to do. so) . experien -ed sickness and internal qualms. It was found on examination that v package of strychnin*} which was among ; tbe letters, had got JooM The Lyttelton Times says ;— “A rather peqpliar,- accident happened to a horse belqngingto Mr G. Taiaroa on Monday. It. appears that, ip company, \yi f th a friend bei to go oat shoq+iog ducks, on horseback on his father’s farm-at Taumutn. They had not.gone far.vcheuMr Taiaroa fired at some ducks. The mare he was fidthgdbok fright, and bolted for about 300 yards, wheu she fell and died in .about two minutes. ; Being curious to know, the cause of death, !e examined the mare, and found both the heart and lungt? very, much .torn and liroken, thus loading to the supposition that.the animal died ef a broken heart.”