ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1219, 19 August 1884, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

At the Police Court, Dunedin, on Friday, James O’Flaherty, against whom there were three previous convictions for larceny and over fifty for drunkenness, was committed for trial for stealing a Masonic jewel, value £ls, at Outran). He was also committed for trial for trying to commit sucide by cutting his throat in the lock-up. . An enormous landslip occurred at an excavation at Auckland on Friday evening, a result of the heavy rain. The men were just leaving work when the pieces fell from the cliff, and they had to run for their lives. 5000 to 10,000 yards of stuff fell, buried the drays and killed one horse. Beach Road is blocked by the slip for three chains, and traffic is stopped. Fortunately none of the numerous ’busses were passing at the time or there would have been a serious loss of life, or had the fall occurred earlier few of the working party on the east side could have escaped. Further landslips are expected. A son of Mr John Keatley, storekeeper, Kawakawa' (Auckland), aged 4, was drowned iu a hole 14 inches deep, dug for a fencing post. A man, name unknown, has committed | suicide at Mougonui Bluff Hotel (Auckland.) Hugh Scott, engraver, charged with wife desertion at Timaru, has been remanded by the Auckland Bench to Timaru. Bail was allowed.

An eldtriy man named Price, belonging to Fielding, was found dead in a small creek near the Wanganui racecourse on Sunday morning. The body was one mass of burns from head to foot. He is supposed to hare slept in a hedge near *>y» which was much burnt, and to have crawled to the creek for safety. A telegram from Nelson states that nothing further has been heard of Moonlight, the prospector, who left Tophouse with a man named Bailey, five weeke ago, intending to prospect the Lake Station. A day or two after etartmg, Bailey went out prospecting, leaving Moonlight in the tent mending his clothes. On Bailey’s return, Moonlight had gone, and nothing has been heard since of him. Search parties have been out, but without ■access. The man who was found in such a wretched state of destitution near

• Waimate a few days ago, died in the Hospital on the 14th instant. It was - thought at first that the man would retoTor, but with the exception of a slight improrement whan first treated, he never rallied, and the severe effects of exposure and destitution caused the patient to sink ▼ary rapidly. Unfortunately' very little could be learned from him as to his i. history, or how he arrived at Waimate, farther than that his name was Deatham, and that he came from British America.

A telegram from Blenheim states that a landslip on Friday, at Onamutu, buried a child named Richard John Giles, son of a miner, who was working in the tunnel close by.- The boy was quite dead when he was got out after half an hour’s digging. An inquest will be held. The child’s mother was also buried to her waist, but escaped unhurt. An act of sacrilege was committed at Port Chalmers last Friday night. The

Wesleyan Church vestry was forcibly entered, and the lids of eleven contribution boxes were wrenched off and the contents stolen. The thieves laid stones and wood outside the vestry window, by which they entered, to prevent traces of footmarks being seen.