ACCIDENTS,OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2753, 20 December 1894, Page 4

ACCIDENTS,OFFENCES, ETC.

At Temuka on Thursday afternooon a young fellow named Harold Opie met with a nasty accident. He was riding an “ordinary” bicycle, and, when opposite Mr Wightman’s shop, the tyre of his front wheel broke, and he was thrown heavily to the ground ar d rendered unconscious. He was carried into Mrs Elder’s, where his injuries were attended to by Dr Hayes. His head, face, and hands were badly cut, and his right wrist sprained. At Timaru on Sunday a girl named Berry, about fifteen years of age, while walking along one of the walls of the old sea baths, fell into the baths, which were full. A companion got hold of her, and attempted to pull her out, but fell in also. The accident was fortunately noticed by Mr W. Foden, and the girls were promptly rescued,drenched, bruised, and thoroughly frightened, but otherwise unhurt. At Timaru a man named Samuel Charles Adams, 46, died suddenly in his bed on Monday morning, at half past 3 o’clock. Death was due to heart disease. Three shearers named L. Worthington (of Pleasant Point), Waters, and J. O’Donnell, while returning on horseback from The Wolds, via The Grampians, attempted to cross the Tekapo, six miles below the Point, All were swept off their horses, but Worthington, being a strong swimmer, managed to reach the shore and rescued Waters. O’Donnell was swept on to a sand spit, with the three horses. After catching one of the horses he mounted it and attempted to swim it to the shore, but the girth of the saddle broke, the saddle slipped off the horse, and O’Donnell was swept away by the swift current and drowned. O’Donnell, whose parents reside in Taranaki, was well known as a step dancer. At Christchurch on Friday a young man named Thos. Evans, 22, a jeweller, was killed on the New Brighton tram line. He was riding a bicycle, passed the tram on the left side, and when opposite the horses appeared to shoot into them, and was run over by the horses and the tram. Death was instantaneous. Manuel Depiues, a settler at Mongonui, Auckland, was turning a wagon when it capsized into a creek, The handle of the brake penetrated his heart, causing instant death. Two children in the wagon escaped unhurt. Bathbone, one of a road making party at Milford Sound, died on Sunday, 9th. He leaves a wife and family at Westport. At Invercargill at the cricket match on Wednesday, Jones, one of the players, in throwing the ball, broke his upper arm. At Wellington, Lawrence Gosling, a wharf labourer who was knocked down in a quarrel on the wharf’'on Wednesday, still lies unconscious at the hospital. William Thomas has been arrested on a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm. A single man, named Charles Jacobs, living at Eketahuua, Wellington, has been accidentally shot dead through his gun going off while he was getting through a wire fence. At Invercargill, last Saturday night, the police apprehended three men named James Fitzgerald, Thomas Mack, and George Hyde (otherwise. called “ Back from the Grave,”) on a charge of vagrancy. The first-named had no boots on and there is little doubt that he is the man who was scared from Mr Palmer’s house at 3 a.m. He will be charged with burglary. The loss of his boots, and the fact that he had no money to buy others, anchored the gang, and they spent the day among the long grass outside of town. At Christchurch, at the inquest on the body of John Allison, who had been found dead on the previous afternoon, the verdict was that death had been caused by apoplexy accelerated by excessive indulgence in drink. Mr Larnach, M.H.R., had one of his ribs broken on Tuesday, through the breaking of the front axle of his carriage. William Jones, aged 12, whose parents reside at Upper Hutt, was drowned in the river at Low er Hutt on Monday, while bathing. A gum-digger named Thomas Robinson dropped dead; whilst at work at the Omapere gumfields. At Auckland McLean Black, said to be an ex-commercial traveller, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labor for the larceny of a book from the Free Public Library. At three respectably dressed young men named William Hutchinson, Henry Wilmot, and Henry Wilson, were committed for trial on a charge of larceny on board the s.s, Tasmania. As the s.s. Te Auau reached the Queen street wharf, Auckland, a saloon passenger, named Walter John Smith, died in the social hall. He had come on board in bad health. He was a passenger by the Kaikoura,from London, and was a grocer in Wakefield, Loudon. At Mosgiel on Monday morning, about 6.30,a man named Aristides Verral Brown, clerk in the National Bank, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. He got out of bed, partly clothed himself, bandaged his eyes with a handkerchief, and discharged the revolver close to the right ear. The bullet passed right through his head and death must have been nearly instantaneous. He was about 24 years of age and a son of the Rev. William Pantou Brown, now of Dunedin, formerly of Waikaia. His books are all right; in fact, he had only been relieving the bank for a week, At the inquest the evidence showed that the deceased had been despondent, being troubled with his heart. The jury returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane, A brother of the deceased disappeared suddenly and somewhat mysteriously from Riverton some time ago, having, it is supposed, fallen or jumped into the estuary.