ACCIDENTS OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2747, 6 December 1894, Page 1

ACCIDENTS OFFENCES, ETC.

William Potter, a young man, was killed at Ohinewai, Auckland, by the upsetting of a io'j 0 f fl a x which he was couveyiug to Vhe railway statiou. Geo. Cox, a miner, was brought to ■Auckland from Kuaotunu, for treatment from injuries received from the explosion of a dynamite cartridge. Cox was engaged in blasting a log. He struck a match to light the fuse, and afterwards put a light to his pipe with the same match. Before he was off the log the charge exploded, breaking Mb arm in two places, and otherwise injuring him about the face and body. The Kaikora (T 1.8.) Tost Office was broken into early on Sunday morning and letters were torn open for their contents, but apparently very little was obtained by the perpetrators. The safe was not tampered with. There is no clue. An entrance was effected through breaking a window at the back of tb r j premises. Ou Sunday morning a. young man named Allp »rt w.is found dead in his bed in a boarding ho/use at Ingluwood The man Moore, knocked down hv a train at Foxton, died in the Palmerston North Hospital. Ho never rocoverod ooiisciousucsi. Nothing is known about him. A young man met with a rather serious accident in a sing'ilar manner at Liuuturville the other day. He was lying on the grass with a Bheath knife in his belt, and while he was turning over on the knife ran into his back about throe or tour inches, fortunately just escaping his heart. It will be a good njai.y weeks before he is able to got up from his bed.