ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1237, 9 September 1884, Page 1

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Mr James Milner an old identity in Dunedin, died on Saturday afternoon from a paralytic stroke, from which he had been ailing since Thursday last. The deceased, who was an auctioneer, was well known and highly respected. The charge of child murder against Miss Rosina Smith wa3 partly heard %t Auckland on Friday and adjourned till to-day. It is stated that the analysis of the contents of the stomach of the infant alleged to have been murdered has not revealed anything to throw light on the case. Tlie bodies of two women, Mrs McKenzie and Mrs Seavey, who were drowned during Tuesday night at Woodville were found, on Thursday, four miles from where the accident occurred. Mrs Seavey'e bo-Hy was still clinging to the raft. A formal inquest was held on Friday morning. The body of Mrs McKenzie will be sent to Dunedin for burial.

Eight boys, whose ages ranged from ten to fifteen years, were brought up at the Dunedin Police Court on Saturd«y on charges of stealing ducks. They succeeded in purloin frig no less than thirty birds within six days. Tiiey disposed of the poultry without much difficulty to Chinese, for a very fair price, and two of them found themselves possessed of sufficient means to be able to discard their homes and put up for a few days at a cheap restaurant. It was this open display of wealth which first put the detectives on their track. One of thtin, named Bates, aged 15, who had been convicted of horse stealing when he was only eleven, was sent to hard labor for a month, and another who had been twice previously convicted of larceny got fourteen day.-. Five of them had previous convictions. The firwt offenders were discharged. _ A women named Mrs MaHon, wife of Mr P. Mason, Oamaru, committed suicide on Friday afternoon, by cutting her throat with a table-knife. It appears, says the Mail, that phe had for some time been in a deeponding state of mind, and that this despondency increased on her giving birth to a child lately. Her mental condition was such, . indeed, that Dr Da Lautour bad recommended Mr Mason to get hor placed in the Dunedin Asylum. Mr M«son proceeded to Dunedin with his wife with the intention of carrying this advice into effect, hut, on the recommendation of a medical man there, who said that she might recover, he brought her back with him. An inquest was held on Saturday, when a verdict was found that deceased cut her throat while temporarily insane. Deceased leaves a family of six children.