ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2396, 8 September 1892, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Nathaniel Taplm was found drowned at Hokianga. One foot was fast in the punt, and the body was hanging over. He left Kokukohu on Thursday, under the influence of liquor. In the Supreme. Court, Wellington, Herbert Wilfred Lawson, with several aliases, who was arrested in Waikato under the name of Gifford, was indicted on a charge of obtaining (?) from John Feockton, by falsely representing himself to be the son of Sir Wilfred Lawson, the temperance advocate. After an absence of two hours the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Prisoner was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Mr James Walker, of the firm of Cuthbertson and Walker, produce merchants, Auckland, was driving to a Masonic mooting at Wairoa South, when ho suddenly gasped and expired. He leaves a wife and daughter. Michael Ryan has been committed for trial at Auckland for an unlawful assault on Detective Hughes. Walter Frost Oxenham, a bush-faUor-, was killed qn Tuesday at Waimate, near Gisborne. He was single, aged 27, and was recently working in Canterbury and Otago. Four boys were charged at the Oamaru Police Court with breaking into shops and stealing money and goods. The. boys ages ran from 10 to 14 years, They had a large number of keys in their possession. Mrs Margaret Pettingew died rather suddenly at her residence, Dunedin, on Sunday from failure of the heart's action. She was 71 years old. At the Supreme Court, Oamaru, on Tuesday, Mary Sweeney waa admitted to probation on two charges oi larceny, and ordered to come up for sentence when called npan on two other charges.—James Stanton, for housebreaking, was sentenced to two yeara,