ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2702, 23 August 1894, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

At the inquest on the body of Miss Elizabeth Montague, aged 15, who was found dead on the public road at Jlukerunui, Auckland, the evidence showed that the deceased rode from her home to visit a neighbor, and fell off her horse, breaking her neck, Next day the horse was found standing beside the body. A verdict of accidental death was returned. The body of a carter named Henry Burgess has been found floating in Wellington harbor. It had been in the water some days. Deceased lately was despondent owing to being out of work, John Young, aged (12, residing alone in a hoqse in Peterborough street, Christchurch, was found dead in the house on Saturday. An inquest was held and a verdict given that he died of congestion of the lungs. Mr Peter Campbell, an old and respected farmer in the Killinchy district, North Canterbury, was killed by his horse falling with hiiq and breaking his neck. He was a hriither-iu-kw of Dr Campbell, who Vfaa drowned in the Tararua disaster. At Oamarn Margaret Andrews was fined £2O or a mouth’s imprisonment for sly grog selling. Notice of appeal was given. Detectives have recovered the platinum stolen fropi the New Zealand Drug Comworks at Burnside, Duuediu, and i nave arrested William Halsford and .Tames Russell. Robert Hickliug was committed for trial for assaulting with a “ neddy ” and doing grevous bodily harm to a man named Neville. The latter had been enticed to a lonely place and was thou assaulted. A Maori named Richard Hoggie has been committed for trial at Dunedin for alleged burglary at Seaclill - . An Invercargill manufacturer received a letter from Samoa purporting to bo signed by the secretary for a Samoan Tracing

Company, setting forth that he had hea of the good quality of his products, and asking that a trial shipment be sent. This was done and advice received that the articles were highly appreciated, and an order for a large quantity was sent. No arrangement for payment was hinted at, and the manufacturer hesitated to send more of his goods. Fortunately he mentioned the affair to a gentleman who had been resident in Samoa, and so discover/1 that the self-styled secretary was an impudent swindler and loafer, who had been exposed in the Samoan papers, aud whose mode is to get goods from abroad after this fashion and sell them to the natives along the coast. He has no place of business. The Invercargill merchant was victimised in the same fashion a few years ago, aud probably that scheme will be tried in other centres.