ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES,ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1252, 14 October 1884, Page 1

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES,ETC.

An old tri'tn named James Patterson, a farmer of Ashbortoi. Forks, was.kicked in the face by a hor-e on Friday morning and instiutly ki'lfeii. V

At the Divorce Court, this week the case W. Newman v. Elizi INewman and A fled Sl-idden, a rule nisi for ihe dissolution of marriage, will be heard. Ti>e pa itio'ier w-*s married to the responin 1865, and iiv-d with her at Hawkesbnry Bush iill 18/4, and there were four children as the issue of the marriage. The petitioner alleges that his wife then cohabited with the co-respondent, and Las .-in.-e resided with him at Wuimate. A tip.n named Mcßrackeo was found ■ lead ia in's hui at Forest Hdl, near Wiuton (Sonthlan •}, last Thursday night. He hid apparently be<n dead some d-iys. No foul pliiy is suspected, but an inquest will prob .by he lie!'). A y iing m.,ri nmied Edward Orgm ban hem - found'in the creek which runs through (J.imtiu. No foul piay is suspec'ed.

Tiif Am kland Ciiy Market ha* been leased for one year at a rental of £33 per month. The police are now i ng aw attempt to burn it down (tl.e sixth, which was made last "eek. A prisoner at A'anjjaDui James Giffea was on Fri.l .y sentenced to nev>-n di>'t>' solitary confinement, on a diet of and water, fui malin^t-rinsr. Poppeus, t:ie <lff.iuliin4f • iV-eilmsfton publican, who was recently arre-te t ia Sydney on a charge of defr'U-ling his cre'lirors wasdisdiargd at the Wellington Police Court on Frio ay. The creditors «•■- cepted a composition of so much m th<- £, and declined to off =r any evidence against him.

Mrs M.mlden, the respondent in the recent AuckUmi divorce case, has decided to make an application for a new trial, on the ground that the v-rdict in favor of the petitioner was against the weight of evidence.

J. Howe Bousf field, a remittanr-e man, who had drinking heavi'y, jumped the first storey window of the Manukau Hotel, Onelnmgi on Thursday afternoon an-t s Detained ii.juries, "'ying four hours later. A lelegr;itn from Hok tiki sHtes that Thomas Kliv-i, a Norwegian, 26 years of oye, a sing'e man, was drowned on Thursday afteinnon in the lagr.on at South Spit. He formerly suited out of Dunedin, *nd arrived at Hofcitika iu the Elib.nk Cactle hiee years ago. A man mimed John M- Phea, working on the Linhnrn station in Manioto Coun'y has l>een rnissii'g f»r a week. He ■ e the Serpentine lor the station, out two nferwurds his horse arrmd riderless. Search parries* are ou!. It is feared he '.has met with a fa' al accident.