ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2026, 29 March 1890, Page 1

ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

Auckland, March 26. Mr P. Barlow, a well-known civil engineer, residing at Kaipara, died suddenly from apoplexy on Priday. WeUe,xn(jton, March 26. A man named Charles Cunningham, a flax mill laborer, was arrested tonight on a charge of stabbing his wife. He inflicted a rather severe wound on her head, but the doctor does not think it will prove fatal. Cheistchuech, March 26. A lad named Ernest Lienmore, working for John O’Carroll, at Hawarden, was kicked in the chest while grooming a horse on Sunday, He was removed to Christchurch hospital where he died this morning. The Resident Magistrate to-day sent a man named James Eastwood to gaol for five months for playing the three card trick in a railway train, and assaulting a young man who picked out the right card. Dunedin, March 26. At the Police Court to-day Charles De Joux was charged with obtaining goods by false pretences at AshburtonThe case was remanded, as defendant had money to pay and was willing to square up. Q-eorge Cowan was committed for trial for a very aggravated assault on a young girl 14 years of age. March 27. Margaret Porter, wife of an employe in the Government workshops, was taken ill at about midnight, and her husband went for assistance. Coming back in a few minutes he found her on the floor gasping, and she died three minutes afterwards. She had been suffering from bronchitis, and death is supposed to have resulted from asphyxia.