ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1216, 12 August 1884, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

A man named Gibson, while out rabbit shootingatTeAwamutu, Auckland, was accidentally shot in the leg by a companion. The leg was amputated, but the sufferer died shortly after the operation. Harry Waymouth, aged eight years, a son of Mr Waymouth of Mitchelson and Co., fell over the cliffs at George’s Bay, Auckland. His arm is broken and he is unconscious. Hie skull is believed to be fractured.

Mikari, who was sentenced two years ago to imprisonment for life for the manslaughter of another native at Oxford, Waikato, Auckland, has been released. During his imprisonment his wife died of grief. At Masterton yesterday Mr Skipper, a solicitor, was charged with obstructing the police. He appeared in an inebriated condition to answer the charge. He was ordered into custody till 3 p.m. as his state was equivalent to a contempt of court. A telegram from Kumara states that four gentlemen started on Sunday morning with a double buggy and pair to Maori Creek to conduct a Presbyterian meeting. Owing, it is said, to the break not acting, it went down the zigzag at a great speed. The buggy capsized, and the horses bolted off with the pole, the wheels leaving the body of the buggy, and the occupants were overturned. The Rev. Mr Hay sustained a scalp wound, Jas. Woods, a baker, had the bone of his right forearm broken. Messrs Campbell and Nicholson escaped unhurt. The horses were afterwards secured.

Is his report on Waritig Taylor’s estate the Official Assignee (Wellington) submit that Taylor has brought himself under the penal clauses of the Bankruptcy Act. A young man named Arthur Curry has been arrested at Wanganui on a charge of forging to a receipt the name of one John Fraser. The offence is alleged to have been committed in Queensland in May last, and a constable was sent in search of Curry. _ A seaman named William .Robertson was sentenced to a months’ imprisonment at the R.M. Court, Tiraaru, for stealing an overcoat from the office of Mr X). Stuart. Mr Stuart had occasion to leave his office for a few minutes, and while he was absent Rabertsou went in and seeing the coat lying on a chair appropriated it. On Friday night, shortly after the northern express had passed the Blueskin Cliffs, where the line almost overhangs the sea, one of the carriages left the lino. Fortunately the caretaker at this point noticed the mishap, and sftrncted the attention of the guard, who . :;cd the train. Tho carriage was got on the rails with very little difficulty, -and scarcely any damage was done. Poppens, the defaulting publican, was arrested at Melbourne, not at Hobart. He was adjudicated a bankrupt on 4th August, and arrested in Melbourne, by virtue of a warrant issued on Tuesday, charging him with having left the place with more than £2OO in his possession. Before this, Mr Mantel, traveller for Mr Choytnol, a wine merchant, who was the petitioning creditor, went to Sydney by the s.s. Wakatipu to try and intercept him, but ho only arrived in Sydney the day after Poppens. A telegram was sent to Melbourne, and he was there arreated with £650 on him. He offered £SOO and costs of arrest to let him go, but as this was compounding a felony, it was not accepted. Constable Caves left Wellington by the s.s. Tarawera on Saturday night to bring him back. He is supposed to have twelve or thirteen hundred pounds with him. Shortly after midnight on Friday a fracas occurred at the Shakespeare Hotel, Wyndhara Street, Auckland. It appears that Thomas Atkinson and Terence Lynch, the latter a noted boxer, went into a room in which four men, named James David, two brothers named Roche, and Thomas Hanlon vfere playing cards. The brothers Roche asked the new comers why they had come into the room, and one of them kicked Lynch in the eye. A severe melee ensued, and when the police arrived Lynch was lying senseless with a contused wound on the temple, and the floor was spattered with clots of blood. The eyes of the Roche brothers were also much damaged. The police, after a severe struggle, arrested the four cardplayers and McCarthy, a carman, for assaulting Lynch. Lynch had to be removed to the hospital. On Saturday he recovered consciousness, and is now progressing favorably. His assailants were remanded for One week. Two of them, the brothers Roche, got a month’s imprisonment tor assaulting the police on their arrest.