ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2544, 19 August 1893, Page 2

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

A skeleton has been bound with clothes on at Whangarei Heads, with two watches in the waistcoat pocket. It is supposed to be that of Frank Ramsay, nephew of Mr Ramsay, piano tuner, Auckland, who was drowned at the time the yacht Minerva capsized in Whangarei Harbour on the 2nd October. A party of nine were in the yacht, only one of whom survived.

A middle aged single man, named David Rosie Simpson, fell 22 feet from a wiudow of the - Terminus to the footpath, sustaining a fracture of the left arm, a severe scalp wound, and concussion of the brain. Re died in the hospital. He was single, a Scotchman, and 45 years of age Latterly he had fallen into money through the death of his parents. In his dying deposition to the constable, Simpson said that he remembered going oui of his bedroom into another room and then falling out of the window He did not know why he went into the room, orhotv he came to fall out of the window.

A young man named Raymond was found dead &% Manaht, near Hawera, leaning oyer the handle of a plough which he had been using. John FusseU, aged 23, was killed at Tai Tapu, ■ North Canterbury, by the wheel of a dray passing over his neck. A terribly-sad accident occurred on Thursday night to two Sisters of Mercy belonging to the Reefton Convent, These two ladies used to go down to Ikamatu on ihe main rqad by &m e V er y m°™« n S to teach the children oi the Catholic school there, and return by the up train in the in the evening. On Thursday night the train was delayed on account of the Greymouth poultry show, and reached Reefton shortly before 9 o'clock, The weather was boisteroqs and wet, and the night exceedingly 4vfc The L^dies left the station as usual in a sulky driven by a boy. All went well until the trap reached an embankment—a drop of eight feet. One of the sisters was instantly killed, her neck being broken, while the othpr was badly injured, but not it is said serioulsy. The driver escaped unhurt, he bein? on'the roadside? of the trap when it capsfzed. and fell on the rqad. Assistance was quickly procured from town, and both victims were conveyed to the cpnveut, when Dr Whitton was quickly in attendance The sad accident cast quite a gloom over the place, both sisters being highly respected by all classes of the community. The name in religion of the sister who was killed was Sister Marry Gertrude. She had only recently taken the black veil, and came from Maitland, Australia.