ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2759, 5 January 1895, Page 4

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Oil Wednesday a paiuful accident happened to a lad named -James Bertie, nephew pf Mr <Jame9 Patrick, leaker, of Tjewuka. He was driving with Af r Patrick at George Town pn the top qf a covered baker's cart, and happened to lurch against the protecting rail, which gavt. way. The little fellow attempted to save himself, hut fell, with one leg doubled under him, breaking it in two places below the knee. He has received surgical attendance from Dr Sir William Bl.unden, and i? progressing as favorably as possible, Jt is barely eighteen mouth" since tne lad met a painful accident at Winchester. Charles Frederick Hill was ttommttted for trial for larceny at Pukekohe, Auckland. The Bench sentenced him to live months ou other charges. At New Plymouth Mrs B. Bishop, an elderly lady, on returning home with her husband from a concert between 10 and 11 o'clock on New Year's Night, feeling j ill sat down on the veraudah of the police station.|and before medical assistance could j be procured she expired. '

Edward Moore, of Hastings, took a dose of carbolic acid in mistake for brandy and died.

A young man named Alfred Williams, a laborer, was drowned while bathing in the Upper SelWyn oii New Year's Day. O'Connor's store and the telephone office at Maori Point, near Queenßtown, Otago, have been burnt down. At Westport theinqueßt on the body of Charles Green, who was accidentally killed on New Year's morning by the bursting of a cannon, occupied all Wednesday. The jury, after two hours' retirement, found " That the deceased, Charles Green, met with his death through being struck by a fragment of a cannon that burst on being fired in the school ground, and while the evidence does not point to recklessness or culpable negligence on the part of those firing the cannon, we are of opinion that gross ignorance was displayed." The following rider was added—" That the jury recommend to authorities that no cannon be fired within the borough of Westport unlesß by an expert; nor then until after obtaining special permission from the proper authority." Mr Charlaß J. Stephens, photographer, Nelson, was gathering apricots on Thursday afternoon when the tree split down the trunk, and he fell, the email of his back striking across a fence, injuring his spine. He is paralysed below the waist. The body of a woman was found in the Avon about a mile below Christchurch on Thursday morning. The body had evidently been in the water eight or nine days. It has been identified as that of Mrs Selina Russell, wife of a marine engineer. She was deaf and dumb, and was subject to fainting fits.