ACCIDENTS FATALITIES, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1894, 21 May 1889, Page 4

ACCIDENTS FATALITIES, OFFENCES, ETC.

Sx. Petersburg, May 18. A widespread conspiracy has been discovered among the Czar’a regiments at Vtoseow, Warsaw, and Zeligabitgrad, for killing His Majesty. Many officers and •eldiera have been arrested, • and three officers committed suicide in order to avoid arrest. At Warsaw' a search" was made, and the detectives discovered a terrible bomb, which it was intended to use against the life' of the Czar. The discovery of this recent plot has completely prostrated ■ Her Majesty the Czarina, who has been suffering from nervousness since the accident to the Royal train on the Azov railway. Washington, May 16" In a drunken orgie in Washington Territory a quarrel ensued in which five men were shot dead. Quebec, May 16. By a disastrous fire which broke out today s§o houses were destroyed. Over 1000 people have been rendered homeless, and are now camped out in the fields. Melbourne, May 37. Owing to the points on the North Melbourne Railway iipe being left open three carriages of the WilliaruStown train were derailed and fell over or one side, and twelve persona ware injured, two seriously. May 18. Mr Bosanquet, jeweller, who was injured in the accident on the North Melbourne railway line last night is dead, and Wells, a painter, is in a critical condition, Other sufferers are progressing favorably. ' A portion of the crew of the Altroore, wrecked at Fiji on the 22nd April, have arrived here. They had heard nothing of the missing boats when they left, but supposed they might possibly effect a landing in Pa river. Brisbine, May 17. A man named Power and two women were drowned at Bustard Head, near Port Curtis, through a bo«t upsetting. Sydney, May 17. Government have received information that the woman upon whom the man Bnttner committed a criminal assault, and for which he w«» sentenced to death, is of bad repute. Tbo woman has confessed to having encouraged Buttner, and Government, therefore decided to commute the death sentence. New® received from Singapore states that the Norwegian burquo Norway, bound from Singapore to New York, had foundered on tbo passage, but fortunately the crew reached Mauritius in safety. Auckland, May 17. The Auckland cutter Rose, owned by the master, ..Cap-'win Sores, went ashore at Tryphenn, Great Barrier, early on the morning of the 15il« inst. A gale sprang up, and the vessel was driven on the rocky beach,' where she became n total wreck. The crow landed in the cutter’s boat. The Rose was uninsured. Wellington, Msy 17. Before the Rimutaka left for London one of tho steampipes burst, and three firemen were severely scalted. A Maori named Frank Martin was admitted to the Hospital to-day from Ouki, suffering from injuries received by (h® limb of a tree falling on him. Little hope is entertained of his recovery. Wellington, May 18. Frank Martin, who was injured by a tree at Otaki on Thursday, died in the hospital .yesterday. Christchurch, May 18. Mrs Polhill, wife of Mr F. Polhill, of Loburn station, committed suicide this morning, by shooting: herself with a fowling-piece. About two years ag > the deceased lost her grown-up daughter suddenly, and she had never fully recovered the shock, and had been subject to fits of melancholy. Lately she had been more depressed than usual, and at a quarter to eight o’clock this morning she loaded a breechloader, and placing it on the table with the muzzle to her breast leaned over and pulled the trigger. The shot passed right through her body, She lived for four hours suffering dreadful agony. Dr Clayton, who was summoned, was unable to do anything to save her, Dunedin, May 17. The horses of a hawker stinted bolted from * hill above the town of St. Bathnns, dashing into and demolishing one side of tho etables of Hamahun. One of (he horses was kil ed at onep. Gloag was seriously injured, and he died next day. A woman named Rae was found dead in a waterhole at Abbotsford. Hiirraway’s flour and oatmeal mills at Green Island were ’burnt to the ground to-night, aim one of the workmen’s cottages. The mill was full of grain and flour. The 1 insurances on buildings, machinery and stock amount to £2400, and it is estimated that> this will about cover half the loss. Invercargill, M«v 17. Jara»s Chadwick, a laborer, wliili feeding n threshing machine at Isle Bank, in the Western district, slipped and had his lag Jscaratid'so severely bv the machinery that he died before reaching the’hospital in Riverton, A distressing fatal aoci'nnt occirr d at Pleasant P .int nn S c nrd«y morning, a It*tie gill named Miry Emily Lmra Shepherd, nearly two years old, a dangh'er cf Mr Geo. Shepherd, baing drowned in a tub of water. The body of Goo. Walter Robertson, second mate of (he Kinclune (which sailed from Timaru for London on the 29th ult.) was found floating in the harbor at Timaru 00 Saturday last near the wharf. It was in an advanced °f decomposition, but the face and ha-da were intacL At tho inquest the nmd’oal evid nee vent to show that “ there was a. Inccr’j'ed and contused wound Oo tho front part of 'hr top of the head, with coufideiable. bruising of the right'temporal muscle ; but no fracture of the scull. The wound was caused aboot the time of death as if by contact with some blunt substance. There were other wounds, a lacerated one on tho back of the right hand, another contusion on the left ankle; these were caused after death. The internal organs showed the usual signs of death by drowning. The wound on the head might have been caused by ■Hiking something in a fall: be might have fallen off the wharf, been stunned, and then drownud.” Other evidence went to show that the deceased was n steady, quiet man, and temperate* It sremed prob ble that in trying to get «bosrd his vessel the deceased Lipped on the wharf and fe'l into the sea, being Manned by striking his head on one of the brace ends. The jury letarnfd a vtrdict of " Accidental death

probably caused by drowning.” It may be mentioned that the decoassds watch and a sum of money ware found in his pockets.