ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1218, 16 August 1884, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

An inquest was held at New Plymouth on Tuesday afternoon on a fire that took place m:St. Aubvn street in that place, in January, 1883. Mr Pardy said the reason he held the inquest on this fire so long after it occurred, was owing to a house by the same owner being bnrnt at Henni. Mr and Mrs Charnock were examined. Before adjourning Mr Pardy asked for a warrant to arrast Mr and Mrs Charnock. He said, during the proceedings of the inauest, that the police had obtained . a ... search warrant and had searched Charnock's house, where they found a large quantity of goods which had been Btated by Mr and Mrs Charnock to be burned; The warrant was granted and bail refused. The Secretary;at the • Salvation Headquarters, Cbristchnrch, denies the statements of the Press Association agent at Dunedfn as to the proceedings re the Bedingfield scandnl. A captain of the Salvation Army, Wellington, . has had. his watch stolen. While conducting the proceedings, he placed his watch on the table so as to check the time, and subsequently looking for it found it gone. He alluded to the theft at Monday and Tuesday night's meetings, and as there was no rppponse to his appeal for the property to be returned, the matter has bsen placed in the . hands of the police. At the Police, Christchurcb, on Wednesday, John Atkinson was charged with having on the-7th instant stolen £75 in notes,the property of John Hamilton,-at Oamaru, and was remanded to that town.