ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2706, 1 September 1894, Page 4

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

A Maori named Pakahas been committed for trial, at Auckland,' ■ for horse stealing Drury. •

A Maori 'boy, aged three years, named Taugirbsa; who has been missing from Gumtowh, ■ near' Mercury Bay, for : a fortnight, was {blind drowned in Waiweko Creek. ; He had wandered'from hoihe. At a ! fan cydress' ' carnival' at the Columbia Skating Rink an accident happened to Miss McArthy, of Parnell, Auckland, who was in a costume representing “ snow.” Her dress caught fire, owing to it being of very inflammable' material, when the wearer approached too close 'to one of the gas 1 jets. She was painfully bulbed about the face, neck, and shoulders before the flames could be extinguished/.

E: S, W. Butler, and undischarged bankrupt, 1 was'arrested at Christchurch oh Wednesday on a' telegraphic warrant’ under section 88 of the Bankruptcy Act, for leaving the colony with a view to defeating the operation; of the Act.- ■ He was admitted to bail by the Registrar, self in £l5O and two sureties in £l5O. It is understood that the bankrupt ' was going to China dr Japan to join the navy. A man named James Burt with several aliases; whom the - police ll had been shadowing ibr some time, Was arrested at Dunedin on Thursday afteruoou just as be'Was About to Sydney under engagement to 1 the Pastoralists’ Union. He is charged with robbery at Anderson’s Bay, Roslyn; Caversham, and Mosgiel. He was wearing a coat Which was stolen at Moagiel, and some ofthe' proceeds'of other’robberies wefefound in' his swag/ ■ As' a boy named' Townsend was proceeding to school at Nelson bn Friday with a slate pencirib bis hand, be fell, and the point of the pencil entered at the innbr 'angle' of the right eye,' penetrating about 4iu—3in ofthe pencil being in the brain. Miss Leach, the teacher of the school, with 'some difficulty ' withdrew the pencil from 1 the' wound. 1 Dr Leggart attended to the boy; and hopes to pull him through;