ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1213, 5 August 1884, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Mrs Warkworth, who recently arrived at Wellington from Timaru, was on Thursday committed for trial on a charge of stealing a box of wearing apparel, the property of a fellow-passenger. An elderly man named Thomas King, a resident in York Street, Wellington, was found dead in his house on Thursday morning. He had been drinking heavily lately, and only the previous night drank off a bottle of rum. He leaves a wife and three children.

A man named Henry Prattern Sterling, from Kaikoura, had a narrow escape of drowning at Wellington early on Thursday morning. Whilst drunk he fell off the breastwork, and was rescued by a constable in a very exhausted condition. His legs bad become entangled in kelp, Thomas Smith, a fireman on one of the .Wellington trains, had a narrow escape from being killed on Wednesday. Noticing one of the doors of a truck open, he walked along the platform of the engine to close it. In attempting to do so he came into collision with a telegraph pole along the line, and was knocked off the train. When picked up he was found to be severely bruised, and was removed to town for medical assistance. An Auckland telegram states that Hansen, the runaway husband, has made it up with his wife, and when he was brought before the Court, the charge of wife desertion was dismissed. Richard Faltus Champion, a son of an old colonist, who went to the Government House, Auckland, last night and demanded the key* of the building from the custodian, was again remanded to the lunatic asylum. James Brown, a bushman, who had bis foot cut off through being jammed between two logs at Auckland, has died from the injuries received. Wm. Isherwoad, formerly an employee in the Despatch Foundry, Greymouth, blew his bruins out on Friday afternoon. He put the muzzle of a shot gun in his mouth, and pulled the trigger by his toe in a loop of flax. He was in financial difficulties, though he had been left £llOO in September last. He had been engaged in unprofitable mining speculations for the last seven or eight months, and was drinking rather freely of late. The bailiff* were in his private residence. William Wilson, aged 10, the eldest son of Mr H. Wilson, of the East Oxford • School, Christchurch, was run over on Friday asd killed.