ACCIDENTS, SUICIDES, AND OFFENCES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1775, 11 August 1888, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, SUICIDES, AND OFFENCES.

A fatal accident occurred aft WangL__i,' Autfk'a'i'i, on Tuesday morning, when Mrs Courtney whilst drawing water, fell into a well »nd was drowned. ;' :-! A man named Thomas Weatherhill, a farmer at Rangiahia, Auckland, shot himselHbrbugh the heart on Thursday morning. Deceased was one of Major Jackson's company of Pores* Eangers Waikato war. native woman, who was employed with others in clearing bush at Botorua on "Wednesday, tripped whilst jtinning awayifrom a falling tree, and fell oh a iliarp stump, which pinned her tiiroiugn'the breast. Death resulted shortly afterwards. .'John Murphy, a bush cook employed atTamakikie, near Dargaville, drowned himself in the northern Wairoa river on Monday. * He had been drinking heavily. » ' Andrew Houston Wilson, 73 years of age, was found dead in a chair in front of the fire in his hut at Kaikorai* Otago, on Wednesday evening. . The jury returned a verdict of death from ■yncope. "A man named George Bailey was killed in the Hokonul coal mine, SouthlanoVon Wednesday afternoon by a fall of coal. Robert Jackson, alias Patrick loughran, who has by means of skeleton keys been robbing stores and shops in New Plymouth, and every town between that town aud Wanganui, was tfrbupt up at the Police Court on Thursday morning, charged with breaking into the railway Btation at Patea, and stealing tickets to the value of £7Also with doing the same at Waverley station. ' Also with breaking into a store at Kakaramea and stealing goods. He was remanded to appear on Fri-' day. This burglar has been recognised W the Napier authorities from a photograph taken at the instance of police, as Patrick Loughran, who was only liberated from Lyttelton gaol on March 16th last, after serving a sentence of five years for housebreaking at Napier. Loughran, after being liberated from gaol, returned to Napier, where he committed a burglary for which he is wanted, and then fled to 'the' West Ceast apparently, and gradually worked up to New Plymouth.