ACCIDENTS FATALITIES, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1898, 30 May 1889, Page 1

ACCIDENTS FATALITIES, OFFENCES, ETC.

Belgrade, May 28. Rioters mad© an attack on the Progressionist party, and used dynamite in a most cowardly manner. They caused considerable destruction to property. The military were called out, and an encounter ensued. Three soldiers were killedj and there was much bloodshed amongst the populace. It is rumoured that a large procession of peasantry is marching on the capital. Chicago, May 26. i Coughlin, a detective, has been, arrested on a charge of complicity in the murder of Dr Cronin, secretary of the Irish American Brotherhood, who, it is alleged, was murdered to prevent the exposure of the embezzlement of money subscribed to the Irish fund. Kingston (Jamaica), May 26. Two ships have been wrecked, the sailors from which reached this port a few days ago. They reported that with seven others they were wrecked on the desert island of Morant Cayo, l a little distance S.E. of Kingston. They were nearly naked when cast ashore, and for twenty-five days the shipwrecked party subsisted on shell fish and coacoanuts. A steamer was despatched to the assistance of the seven men left on the island, and they have just been brought here. Melbourne. May 28. Daly, a solicitor, has been fined £25 and a month’s imprisonment for contempt of Court, for writing to the Press, comnienting on the Cutler perjury case. i Sydney, May 27. By a fire at Redfern last night a woman named Nelson was burned to death. Two other inmates had a very narrow escape. Sydney, May 23. The man Buttern, who was sentenced to death for criminal assault, and afterwards had the penalty commuted to imprisonment for life on account of the woman confessing that she had encouraged him, has been released from gaol. Napier, May 27. Two men named O’Brien and Lenahan were each, sentenced to a month’s bard labor to-day for being concerned in the recent unprovoked assault on Dr. Moore. Wellington, May 27. Mr Garland, Lord Cranborne’s tutor, was thrown from his horse on Friday and had his collar bone broken and his shoulder severely hurt. It was at first reported that it was the Governor who was hurt, Waimate, May 27. A young man named George Wild was taken to the Waimate Hospital on Saturday, suffering from typhoid fever. He died twelve hours after he was admitted. Christchurch, May 27. Some instances of breaking into and stealing at night have occurred here recently. A few days ago the residence of the Rev. W. Potter, Primitive Methodist Minister, was entered and £l4 stolen. Last night the shop of Andrews, pork butcher, was entered and a quantity of provisions and small change abstracted. Ashburton, May 27. A man named George McAuley was killed by falling from a trap near Methven on Saturday evening. It is said deceased was a little the worse for liquor. A brother of the deceased is said to reside in the Timaru, or Oamaru district. Feilding, May 27. A young man named Crook and two others named Foster and Macalister, went out shooting yesterday. _ Crook got a match from Macalister to light his pipe, and whilst lighting it he leaned the muzzle of the gun against his body. The gun went off and shot him dead. Westport, May 28. A very flash looking young man named Sinclair, who has been passing off at Brunnerton as an electric light agent, has been arrested for an alleged theft of clothing and jewellery. He has only been in the district for a few days. At Timaru on Tuesday a man named Geo. Matthews, a wharf laborer, was fined £25 for smuggling 221 bof manufactured tobacco. The fin© was paid by accused’s friends. He was seen by Sergt. Livingstone leaving the wbart after dark, on Monday night, with the tooacco under his arm, and be admitted getting it from the steamer Janet Nicoll, lying ab the wharf, 'the police are making further enquiries, as they believe others are implicated.