ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2158, 3 February 1891, Page 4

ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

W ELLINGTONi Jan. 30. Walter Deseury, teacher of music, was to-day committed for trial for forging the name of Mr W. L. Travers, solicitor, to a cheque. The charge against Daniel Jobberns for obtaining goods from Arthur and Co. by alleged false pretences was dismissed, but the Magistrate stated it was competent for the plaintiff to prosecute under the Vexatious Indictment Act, 1879, Hokitika., Jan. 30. A young man named James Lennahan committed suicide at Dillman’s yesterday afternoon by setting fire to some fuse, putting the unlit end into the neck of a flask of powder, and placing !the flask under his neck. Death was instantaneous. A well-known resident of Hokitika, Wm. Smith, a carpenter, was found dead in the river this afternoon. He went across in a boat to get a load of drift wood, and it is supposed that he noticed the boat got loose, and swam out to get, it, took cramp, and was drowned. Inyeecabchll, Jan. 31. William Brown, landlord of the Governor Grey Hotel, at Avsnal, died suddenly in town to-day. He had called on Mr John Dalgleish to settle some business, and was standing bepide him while he wrote a cheque, when he suddenly staggered and died immediately, He was a man of about 45 years of age, and is said to have been recently subject to fits. Auckland, Jan. 30.

Three boys,, the eldest of whom was eleven and a-half years, was ordered by Dr Giles, E M., at the Police Court yesterday, to be birched for the larceny of some sacks, one of the boys being also sentenced to twenty-four hours’ imprisonment- Pour other boys were charged with breaking and entering a dwelling-house and slealing therefrom. This case was remanded. A nother charge against a boy of obtaining a box of tobacco by false pretences was also remanded. When these cases were before the Court Dr Giles remarked that there “seemed to be growing up a prolific production of future candidates for our gaols.” Jan. 31. Lucy May Woodruffe, aged seven years; daughters of Mr B. F. Woodruffe, formerly a draper in Queen street, and now of Mount Albert, was killed by swallowing a skirt stud to-day.