ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC,

Temuka Leader, Issue 2621, 15 February 1894, Page 4

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC,

A man named David Evitts was accidentally killed at Waitehuna, near Raglan, Auckland, on Sunday, while exercising a horse. A boy named Olliver was drowned on Sunday, whilst bathing in the Waiongona river, Hawke's Bay. Dr Hauratty, of Featherston, Wellington, had his thigh broken by a fall when ejected from a hotel in which he had been refused drink on Sunday morning. Samuel Alexander Pinkerton, a driver in the employ of the Westport Coal Company at Coalbrookdale, hanged him self in his hut. His head was affected by an accident met with a few years ago. He was well known in Nelson and on the West Coast.

A youth named Thomas Wilson, licensed out from Burnham Industrial School to a farmer at Springston, died at the Christchurch hospital from peritonitis, resulting from eating unripe fruit. A little girl, Margaret Ellen Robson, aged 3 years, was accidentally killed by a fall out of a trap at Te Aroha, Wellington, on sSunday, while on the way to church with her aunt, Mrs O'Grady. Henry Richard Moody, labourer, was found dead in some fern at Kihikihi, Wellington, at the rear of the hotel, with a bottle of "Old. Tom" alongside him. A verdict that he died from the effects of sunstroke while under the influence of liquor, was returned. At Auckland a bookmaker named Tobias Tobias was charged with leaving his wife without adequate means of support, also with assault. The charge of assault was dismissed, but Tobias was ordered to pay 10s a week for support. He pleaded inability, and said that the totalisator had killed his business.

Herbert Chester, who was arrested at Auckland on a charge of issuing a valueless cheque for £lO on the Colonial Bank to one Lindsay, a cook at the Albert Hotel, was remanded for a week. Authony Gordon was at Work in a paddock at Hastings, Hawke's Bay, when he dropped down dead. The cause of death was heart disease. Gordon was a single man, a potato dealer. Philip Wills was fined 50s and costs for allowing a girl to work in his laundry at Wellington after 1 p.m. on Saturdays. At Wellington the mania for poisoning continues. A young married woman was taken to the hospital, suffering from a solution of match heads. She is recovering. A woman named Sarah Ann Meares, a widow residing at Petone, Wellington, is missing. She was last seen on Wellington wharf on Saturday night. A letter written by Mrs Meares has reached the constable at Petone, asking him to look after her children, some of whom are grown up. William Stewart, second engineer of the steamer Waikato, has been committed to gaol at Wellington for a month with hard labour for disobeying the orders of Mr Foster, the chief engineer. The latter deposed that on returning to the ship on Monday he found defendant drunk in his berth. The refrigerating engines were going slow, and the temperature in the meat chambers was raised 5 degrees. There were no firemen in the stoke-hole, and in another hour, if this condition of affairs bad lasted, there would h ive been a probability of 220 tons of meat being seriously deteriorated if not utterly ruined. The Resident Magistrate informed defendant that it was lucky for hjm that a more serious charge had not been orefereed by the master of the ship, as in that case, if a oonviotion had followed, not only would imprisonment have been inflioted, but defendant's certificate would have been forfeited.