ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1235, 4 September 1884, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

A little girl named Harrison, residing on the East Belt, Christchurch, fell into a bucket of hot water (which her mother was using to wash clothes) and was so terribly scalded that she died two hours after. A man named Samuel Heatley fell down in a fit in Lichfield, Christchurch, on Monday last, and expired half an hour afterwards, He was a very powerful man. The Hon. Mr Wood, M.L.C., died at Wellington on Saturday night. Mr James Garden, wife of a storekeeper at Clinton, in the Olutha County, Otago, died during an apoplectic fit which seized her whilst she was attending a meeting of the Salvation Army in the local hall. She leaves fourteen children, the youngest of whom is an infant. Dr Coughtrey, who gave medical evidence at the Burns inquest, Dunedin, and advanced the opinion that the man; did not shoot himself, as was alleged, has, it is understood, brought the matter under the notice of the Department of Jnstice. At the Police Court, Auckland, on Tuesday, Rosina Smith* was further remanded till to-morrow on the charge of child murder, after the evidence of Dr Wright had been taken. Henry Todd, formerly in the employ of the Gear Freezing Company, Wellington, was arrested on Tuesday afternoon on a charge of embezzling sums amounting to about £6O. A young man named J acob Hansen, employed by the Wellington Meat

Preserving aud Refrigerating Company, attempted to commit s'ncide on Tuesday by hanging himself from a steam pipe in the factory. When cut down Ho was nearly strangled. He had been in. a desponding state for a day or two, He was remanded to the Asylum for examination. A hairdresser named Robert Cower attempted to poison himself with oxalic acid at Oamaru on Tuesday. A was called in as _ soon as Gowers condition was ascertained, and with the aid of a stomach pump all danger was removed. Last week an importer in Dunedin received a case of merchandise from London, and on opening it discovered that a parcel of sheeting had been abstracted, a,nd the void ingeniously filled up with a piece of coal, a wooden block and an soup and boulli tin. It is stated that similar abstractions are becoming too frequent to be pleasant to importers. On Tuesday a fire at Waimatuka, [ Southland, destroyed a threshing mill and a quantity of rye grass seed. The mill I was insured for £2OO, and the rye grass, i the property of Mr Fraser, was uninsured. —Mr M. J. Crow, a farmer at Waihola, Southland, had two wheat stacks destroyed by fire on Sunday night. No cause is assigned. The insurance was £125, with the Equitable. The loss is estimated at double that amount.—Mr M. Hogas, at Wrey’s Bush, Southland, had four stacks of barley, two hundred yards apart, burnt on the 26th nit. Incendiarism is more than suspected. In this case the insurance was £250, with the Equitable, and the loss three times that amount. A boy two years of age, a son of James Garnett, of Sydenham, Christchurch, was accidentally drowned in a water-hole. A sailor belonging to the barque Seatoller, now lying at the anchorage at Nelson, with the object of deserting left the ship on a ladder, which has been picked up necar the lighthouse. The man, whose name is Watson, has not been seen. Bridget Healey, who swallowed a quantity of ammonia in Timaru on Sunday evening last died in the hospital on Monday afternoon. At the inquest on Tuesday a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane was returned.