ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1258, 28 October 1884, Page 1

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Mr Decimns Atkinson, a brother of Major Atkinson, was drowned at Kaipara on Thursday. He went out sailing with some friends and a squall upset the boat. Everybody else was saved. Mr E. H. Ensor, a brother of Mr 0. Ensor, of Mount Grey, died at Leithfield on Friday from the effects of a fall from a horse on Wednesday last. At the Lytlelton R.M. Court, on Friday P. McCarthy, a seaman of the American barque H. J. Libby, was charged with stabbing Captain C, W. Richardson on the voyage from New York. The prosecutor was allowed to sit while giving his evidence, and the accused was carried into Court and placed on two chairs, having apparently not regained the use of his legs. The Bench decided to grant a request made on behalf of the American Consul, that the accused should be detained in safe keeping till the Consul-General ordered him to be transported for trial there. Captain Richardson was then charged on the information of McCarthy, with inflicting' on him grievous bodily harm with intent to murder him. McCarthy stated that when he was at the wheel on the night of October Ist he spoke back to the mate, who then struck him several times on the head with a belaying pin. He alleges that he stabbed the captain in self-defence, and was then and afterwards till arrival treated with great cruelty, from the effects of which he has not yet recovered. The Bench decided that they had no jurisdiction and dismissed the information. Mr Ollivier, R.M, said he would make no order for the detention of the captain, but in answer to McCarthy’s counsel, promised to communicate with the Governor re sending witnesses to America. John Sams was charged at the New Plymouth Police Court on Saturday morning with stabbing John Bland. The prisoner was remanded. John Thomas, connected with the Salvation Army, was charged with attempted rape on Leuisa Ellis, at Waitara. This case was also remanded. A seaman named Michael Tall was drowned at Napier last Saturday night at eleven o’clock. The deceased belonged to the schooner Enterprise, which was lying alongside the wharf, and on stepping on hoard his foot slipped and he fell head first between the vessel and the wharf. Every effort was made to save him, but he never rose to the surface. Tall was a foreigner, and had no relatives in the colony. On the arrival of the Mountain Laurel from Dunedin at Auckland, the Water Police arrested a passenger named Dr Tuke, on a warrant from Dunedin charging him with the forgery of a cheque for £1 on the Bank of New South Wales. Other charges will be preferred. Charles Marnes was brought up at the Police Court, Auckland, on Saturday, on suspicion of being of unsound mind. He was at Mount Eden range ,at an early hour that morning, and while .Volunteers were firing he rushed from a recess in a completely nude state and placed himself in front of the target; He was remanded for medical examination.

Mr Fraser on Saturday gave a pleasure trip in the Triumph to his employees and workmen, with their families. Mrs Wharton, wife of a fireman in the Triumph, while off Rarigitoto, went into the forecastle peak,' mistaking it for a lavatory, and fell down a ventilating hatchway, and was killed instantaneously. She had no business there. The accident cast a complete gloom over the picnic. A cook at the survey camp at Mongonui (Auckland) had a finger blown off his hand, and his hands were otherwise injured, through the bursting of a gun.