ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1257, 25 October 1884, Page 1

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

In the Divorce Court, Dunedin, on Friday, in the case of F. W. Newman v Eliza Newman and Alfred Sladden, a rule nisi was granted, with costs against the co-respondent. The petitioner was only represented by counsel. A serious accident occurred at Ravenabonrne (Otago) on Wednesday to a girl of eleven years, named Helena Mullinger. She was engaged plucking flowers on the railway bank, and fell on the line just as the rnid-day train from Palmerston was passing. - Nothing could be done to save her, and one of the carriages passed over her left leg, completely crushing it. She was immediately conveyed in the same train to the Dunedin Hospital, where the limb was amputated below the thigh. The train coming round a corner startled her so that she fell. No blame whatever is attributable to the engine driver. Judge Richmond at Blenheim refused the application to send Fanny Bonnington, acquitted on a charge of concealment of birth on the ground of insanity, to the Hospital instead of the Asylum. HU Honor said the girl got off cheaply, and the usual course in the case of criminals must be followed. The infant daughter of Henry Sargeant, of the Auckland Hotel and dining rooms, was poisoned through eating lucifer matches. The Chief Officer of the Star of the Mersey, now in Timaru, had the end of his right thumb taken off at the first joint, whilst attending to the slinging of some palings out of the hold.