ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1902, 11 June 1889, Page 4

ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, OFFENCES, ETC.

London, May 6. The remainder of the trunk of a woman has been discovered at Battersea Park, showing clearly that the case is one of mnrder. • * 'At the inquest on the body of Jas. Maybrick a yerdict of wilful murder was returned Against the woman in custody. June 9. , The Marchioness of CiAstelar has been murdered by a tenant farmer near Maulfaix, owing to a dispute, as to the amount of rent for a farm. Yokohama, June 6. A volcano in Japan has broken out in active eruption and one hundred and seventy persons have been killed. Madrid, June 7. Severe shocks of earthquake have been recently experienced in town.

An immense amount of damage has been done, and several deaths are reported. New York, June 7. It will take ten thousand laborers a month to clear the wreckage caused by the flood at Johnstown. The relief fund for the purpose of providing food for the destitute survivors, numbering fifteen thousand, has reached -a million and a half dollars. Adelaide, June 7. Bonnay, who on the 23rd, April was arrested on a charge of beating his wife to death, has been acquitted. A storm is reported from, the northern coast. The steamer Gantry was wrecked at Normanton and several natives were lost. The ketch Lotus was driven ashore by the breaking of her cable, and the master, named Russell, was killed. Dunedin, June 7, James Renton, aged twenty-three years, plasterer, was killed while at work at the new municipal buildings, Port Chalmers, By some oversight he stepped off the scaffolding, which is 4ft wide, and fell: a_ distance of some 30ft, alighting on his head. On being picked up he uttered a groan and died. He was a most respectable’ young man and the main support of his mother, who singularly enough was made a widow by a similar accident eighteen months ago. Oamaeu, June 7. A man named Edward McCormack, a night porter at an hotel, was charged at the Resident Magistrate’s - Court to-day with having four picklock keys in his possession. The landlord of the hotel had missed a number of bottles of whiskey, wine, &c., from the bar, and several of the servants’ and lodgers* boxes had been opened and valuables taken. The keys, it was found, would open a large number of the- drawers, boxes, and ;doors in the hotel, although : there was nothing to connect the accused with the articles taken. The Magistrate decided to send him to gaol for a month, the keys to he forfeited to the Queen. Wellington, June 8. In the Divorce Court, in the case Malcolm v. Malcolm, the wife’s petition, a decree nisi was granted. In Dodwell v. Dodwell, also the wife’s petition, the husband is J. C. Dodwell, Episcopalian minister. Mrs Dodwell deposed to respondent’s adultery, and stated that she had been driven to a doctor’s by his immorality. He was in the habit of taking strange women to hotels when he was in Wellington. Evidence to this effect was given by the licensee of the Central Hotel. Dodwell had the cure at Bulls, but two years ago was suspended by the bishop. A decree nisi with costs was granted.