ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2648, 19 April 1894, Page 4

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Colonel De Quincay died at Auckland on Sunday after a brief illness. He was Sergeant-at-Arms in the House of Representatives, and was the last surviving male descendant of the celebrated English essayist, Thomas'De Quincey. Mr Alexander Brodie is dead. He arrived at Auckland in 1863 with the Royal Engineers, and erected the military telegraph during the Waikato war. Some of the men of .the Auckland Fire Brigade and Superintendent Hughes, and Captain Field, are suffering from the fumes of the sulphuric acid inhaled when suppressing the fire at Kempthorne and Prosser’s drug store. Salmon, of the Salvage Corps, is confined to bed seriously ill.

At Wellington a boy, six years of age, named John Hogarth, was terribly burned about the body and legs on Monday through his clothes catching fire. He was taken to the hospital, where he died on Tuesday. In the Divorce Court, Wellington, Mr Justice Richmond granted a decree absolute in the case of Jessie Berg v. Samuel Berg. A Wellington-owned fishing boat, containing two men named Frederick Hendrickson, her owner, and Henry Nelson, capsized on Thursday morning last between Marawakapakapa and New Harbor, D’Urville’s Island. Both men started to swim for shore, and kept together for a time. Then Nelson forged ahead, Hendrickson telling him not to get excited but to take it easy and they would be all right. Nelson, however, got a hundred yards ahead, and Hendrickson saw him no more. After swimming about a mile, Hendrickson reached laud, but was carried back by the heavy surf five times before he could laud. Both men had on their gum-boots and clothes. Hendrickson made an unsuccessful search for his mate. Nelson was unmarried, and it is believed that, he had no relatives in the colony.

The inquest on the body of Joseph Holland at Kohukohu, wan adjourned till the 16th May. Dr Hall, after the post mortem examination, stated that he could find no indication of the cause of death. The contents of the stomach are to be sent to Auckland for analysis. Samuel Ferguson, referred to in a Sydney telegram as being lost off the Tarawera between Wellington and Sydney, was a well-to-do farmer hailing from the Goulburn district, Ifew South Wales. He had been 55 years in Australia, and when he left Sydney on the 22nd March to come to New Zealand to see a relative at Blenheim it was the first time he had set foot on a vessel during that period. He left Wellington last Wednesday in capital spirits. His age was about 60. At the Christchurch Police Court George Steel was committed for trial for burglariously entering Papp’s grocery store on Saturday night. He was caught red-handed by the police. The house of Mr John Giffkius, at Styx, N.C., was destroyed by fire on Monday. Mr William DuMoulin, a very early settler in the northern district, died at Rangiora on Tuesday. He arrived in Sydney iu 1828, and came to Canterbury in 1853.

At Rangxora a farmer named Thomas Bolton was committed for trial on charges of larceny of wheat from farmers residing near him.

Josey Cook, a six-year-old daughter of Harry Cook, of Dunedin, was drowned in the Mataura river while playing on Sunday. At Balclutha, Mr R. S. Hawkins, S.M., gave judgment in a case in which Margaret Guest was charged with selling liquor without a license. He imposed a fine of £6 and costs. He said that he did not agree with the course adopted of withdrawing the charge against the husband of defendant. Leave to appeal was granted.