ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2385, 21 July 1892, Page 4

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

John B. Somerset, a clerk to the Raglan County Council, Auckland, has been arrested on a charge of the embezzlement of £3 6s 9d the funds of the Council. William Wilson, alias Hilton, Boulton, and Mountjoy, fell down the steps of a hotel dive on Saturday, at Christchurch, and was taken to the hospital, where he died on Tuesday.

The body of a man in au advanced state of decomposition was washed ashore in the harbour at Auckland on Tuesday morning. It is not yet identified, Nobody has been reported to the police as Missing.

Mr Allwright, one of the oldest rp •, of Lyttelton, and who represented in the *f? USB ° f p eseuteu L„- f . t | laments, Representatives in died on Monday morning a. Victor Hugo, who has been „ sentence at Mount Eden, Auckland, was discharged on Saturday, but was rearrested on au alleged charge of breaking and entering a dwelling house in the Taupo district in November last.

A newspaper runner named William White, aged 15, was killed on the railway at Addington on Thursday evening. He was travelling on the 5 p.m. north train, and shortly after it passed one of the foremen at the railway workshops found him lying on the line with his legs cut off. He is supposed to have fallen while passing between the carnages. He was alive when found, but ho died half an hour afterwards.

Robert Keddio, an old miner, formerly well-known as one of the lloss pioneers, was going home on Sunday night to his hut at Dilmau’s, near Kumara, when in the darkness he must have stumbled crossing the Government race and fallen in, for his dead body was discovered on Monday morning jammed against the grating of the syphon pipes. It is conjectured that he fell and struck his head against one of the stays of the race, because there was only three inches of water in the race at the time.