ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2175, 14 March 1891, Page 1

ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

A tjckland, March 11. ! A well-known settler ttt.Kaqkapakapa (James Fulton) has been found drowned. - A report, current in Tauranga, that a resident in Whangamata hadjbeen arrested for murder is .denied. f A; fatal fight occurred recently at iWh&ngamata between a Maori and a European, but the police decline to give .names until further inquiries have been made. No one, h'djyejver, has been arrested. : .

A young woman named .Lydia Baker, who suffered from disease and paralysis, and who died iat Onehunga yesterday, was an inmate of the Costley Home, and it ia stated, .ori>the authority of Dr Scott, who attended i her after she was removed from the institution, that while there, owing to want of proper appliances for treating her case, she developed bed sores, two of whjfch.,on the hips were of such a depth as to expose the bone for 3in or 4iu. It is also alleged that, owing to the. fact that; the matron of th§ home has no assistant, she had to attend to this case and dress" the girl's wounds whilst she was in charge of a maternity case, which was in the home at the same time, this being a breach of a, recognised law of medicine. An inquest on the body x>f the girl is to be held at: Onehunga to-morrow. ■ ■,<..:. March 12.

The inquest on the remains Baker was commenced to-day before.!; Colonel DeQuincey. Mrs ,Baker, mother of the deceased, deposed 1 that she removed her daughter fro>nr!the Oostley Home on Sjiinday,and on Tuesday she died. (She took her the Home because she did not tpink she was receiving sufficient When witness saw her daughter a month after she was admitted to the Home her condition; was very much worse than when she entered. Deceased was in .the Wellington Asylum about two years ago, and was then in a bad state of health and insane. After Mrß Baker's evidence was heard the inquest was adjourned till tomorrow.

At the Supreme Court Bedford and Carroll, two notorious characters, were sentenced to three years' penal servitude for unlawfully wounding. Wm. G-eorge,who was charged withjbreaking into a house, was released on probation on account of his previous good character. Other sentences were imposed as follows:—Jas. G-reen, for embezzling moneys belonging to the Omaha Boad Board whilsiT'he waß clerk and treasurer to that body, three years' penal servitude ; Ellen Geary, for stealing money from the person of another, six months' imprisonment; Andrew Barrett, for breaking and entering , nine months',; imprisphment • Thos. John Eobson, who pleaded guilty to. makiqg; a false declaration reporting the birth of a-chiid, was admitted /to probation ; ? Jnp.. Burton and Jas*Qun- : ningham, wW were charged with .for-: gery and uttering;'were found-not John' Milne, a -who tpleaded guilty to having attempted to commit suicide at Opotiki,was ordered to come up for sentence when called, 94.^

March 12. The police have received information from Mahia Peninsula that a man (name not stated) was out to sea in an open boat on Monday, night, and has not since been heard of. •-!

Another fishing boat is reported as missing. Three men, Frank Weaver, Charles- Holland, and another, whose name is unknown, left on Sunday night for Ariel Reef, twenty miles off the coast. A very heavy, southerly wind sprang up on. Monday, and the boat has not since been neard of. ' Ns&sqn, March 11. The a.B, Charles Edward. i;aQ down a little outter laden with 12 tons 'of coal in the harbor on Wednesday evening duriog a thick fog, and Westrupp, one of the crew of three, was drowned. The others clambered on to the steamer. Gbeymouih, March 11, A. Webber, brewer, has been flded £lO and costs for not keeping his books, properly., In the case gone into the person who kept Webbet's books entered the materials for brew, but neglected to enter the beer* DtrffEßji?, March 12. The death ia announced of William Heifernan, one of the pioneers of Sandhurst, Victoria. At the Police Court to-day William Parker, charged with' stealing £2 at Otaio, was remanded to Timaru.