ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2708, 6 September 1894, Page 4

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

On Saturday night a man named Frank Debowers, . a seaman on the steamer GleUelg, if ell overboard, and was drowned at Qnehunga. A fire occurred last - Sunday night at Newton, in a draper’s shop occupied by Mrs laaacßenuett. ■ The fire was confined to the ground flour of the shop, but the stock was totally destroyed. Slight damage was done to the adjoining premises, Wendell’s wine shop, and Fowler’s pork butchers. The total damage amounts to £7OO. i On the passage of the Mararoa Mr J. Bingham, saloon; passenger, .and' second master of the East Christchurch school, died on the 2nd inst. He burst a blood vessel in a fit of coughing. At Auckland ten stowaways. by ; the Tasmania were sentenced to 14 days’ im-i prisonment. Some ■of them were “hard

cases.”'

George; ICirk, a married shepherd on Gwovas Station, Hawkes Bay, {.left the station for the men’s quarters last Sunday night, bat he never arrived. ; His ■ body was found in a creek on Monday. It is supposed to be a case of accidental By a fire on ..Monday;, morning; in Courtenay Place, ■Wellington, a shop.and dwelling house, of Mr T. M. Griffiths, pawnbroker, was completely destroyed: with its contents, whilst, a nine-roomed house adjoining,!occupied by Mrs Speed,! was partly burned. Mr Griffiths le an-; insured, and estimates his loss ,at £SOO, and Mrs Speed at £2OO. The buildings were insured for £BOO.

Regarding the Hastings Post Office; burglary, the siafe was found in a ploughed paddock at Longlahds, on. the Maraekakaho road,, about three and A-half miles from Hastings. .The express was discovered near the racecourse, which was perhaps as tar as the perpetrators could get, as the-king bolt was broken. Some chisel marks ware found on the joints, and entrance to the safe seems to have been effected by cutting two plates of iron at the bottom. The postal notes, money order forms, and ' Savings ' Bank books were recovered. On balancing, it was found that >tamps to the yalue of. only' £B3 2s 6d had been, stolen. The cash abstracted was found to be. £66 16s 3d. The safe also contained registered letters, and these were rifled of their valuable contents. r Every post office in the colony, and all licensed, stamp vendors, dealers, and; collectors, have been warned against purchasing stamps without satisfying themselves as to the i bona: tides of the sellers.

'A sad fatality arising out of auowballiug ocourred near the Arthur street school,Dunedin, on Monday morning. George Henry, aged 12 years, was proceeding towards the school ; i with some companions when a snowball' was thrown at a passer-by. The latter, who parted a stick,; ran after the boys in a threatening manner, and Henry, who was running backwards, slipped, faUing on the tram line in front of the down.car. Before the car could be stopped the, boy received injuries to the base of the skull, causing almost instantaneous death. A fire broke out on Tuesday morning in a wooden building at the back of the Benevolent Institution, Dunedin, and damage to the extent of £l5O or £2OO was donp before jt was suppressed. The fire was confined tg the reading and Smoking roocas occupied by four of the inmates, who made their escape through the windows. The building ; was insured in the Rational and. Standard for £IOO each/ .

The coroner’s jury returned a verdict that the infant found in a creek at Fortrose, Southland, was , the child of Sarah Gregory, now in custody, and that it was placed itt the water shortly after birth by her.