ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC

Temuka Leader, Issue 2370, 16 June 1892, Page 4

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC

A gum-digger named John Cherington, sixty-seven years of age, dropped dead on Tuesday in his whare at JNgapapito, about fourteen miles from Kawakawa, Auckland. A Maori named Henare Karuna was drowned while attempting to swim the Waimamakura river, near Ornapere, Auckland. He sank when half-way across.

A gumdigger named Parkes, who had been suffering from pneumonia and had threatened to commit suicide, died suddenly on the platform of tie Auckland railway station, after coming by train from Henderson to go to the hospital. At the inquest on his body the jury returned a verdict declaring that death had resulted from pneumonia, aggravated by want of nourishment and excessive drinking. At Wellington John Black and Daniel Tennent were committed for trial for breaking and entering the Lion Foundry, and stealing £7 odd. One of the prisoners formerly worked in the foundry, and they were discovered by the town nightwatchman working at the safe, but the latter took no action, as the men said that they were completing a job for the proprietor. At Dunedin a boy, two years old, named George Watkins, fell into a boiler of hot water at his parents' residence, in North-East Valley, and died from the effects.

At Dunedin on Tuesday Mary Blue was committed for trial for breaking into a house and stealing clothing valued at £6. Her husband was charged with her, but his case was dismissed.

At the Supreme Court, Invercargill, on Tuesday, the men convicted of the larceny of Hatch's sealskins came up for sentence. Andrew Newton, whom His Honor said was the ringleader in the crime and had got all the profits of it, was sentenced to 12 months' hard labor. C. H. Mellish and Thomas Thompson were released on entering into a bond to come up for sentence when called on. William Ross, charged with forgery and uttering at Gore, made the defence that he had got the cheque from an unknown man, to whom he gave cash for it, and afterwards tendered it in payment for goods. Prisoner had served a five years' sentence in Dunedin for rape, and was now given nine months' hard labor. John Cameron, found guilty of indecent assault on a little girl at Riverton, on Saturday last, was sentenced to 18 months. His Honor enquired as to the man's antecedents, as it appeared that he was in a muddled state, saying in his evidence that if he had committed the crime he did not know of it. It appeared that he came from about Timaru. and that he had been charged with vagarncy at Winton recently, and discharged on a promise to leave the district.