ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2811, 4 May 1895, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

The Christchurch police are taking action against youths who obaruct the footpaths in the evening. On Wednesday a young man wis fined 20s and costs for refusing to move on when requasted by a constable to do so. James Wilson, cook, was killed at Tarras station, Cromwell, through being thrown out of a dray. A store occupied by Dowdall at Berwick, Otago, has been burned down. The building was insured for £BSO, and the stock for £SOO in the South British. The loss is considerably above the insurance. At the Magistrate's Court, Timaru, an old man named Charles Paul, a cook, was charged with maliciously shooting a gelding, thereby causing it 3 death. The evidence showed that accused was cook at a contractor's camp which was pitched in a paddock on Kingsdown ; that horses and other animals in the paddock annoyed the old man by coming about his galley, and he was heard to threaten to shoot them, and that he had access to a gun kept in the camp. On the morning of April 19, a gelding valued at £5 was found to have been shot in the hind-quarters, aud so seriously hurt that it had to bo destroyed. When chargod with shooting the animal, accused denied it, but offered and paid to the owner, Mrs Cromie, £4. In court the accused denied all knowledge of the wounding of the horse, and said he paid the money to avoid being brought to court about it. He admitted that he had some drink the evening before. The magistrate considered there was a case for a jury and committed accused for trial, bail being fixed at two sureties of £25 each. A young fellow named Joseph Redmond, while leaping a horse over a low fence on Mr E. 6. Kerr's farm, near I'imaru, on Thursday, met with a serious accident. The horse slipped aud rolled over Redmond, the principal weight coming on his loins. Redmond was found by a passer-by and taken to the hospital, where it was found he was sulfering from severe internal injuries. Ho is not expected to recover. On Monday night, or early on Tuesday morning, the shop of Mr C. H. Smith, grocer, Christchurch, was broken into. The burglars effected an entrance through a window in the front part of shop and stole about two hundred and forty halfpound packets of tea, and a quantity of flour, cocoa, and other groceries. Edward Williamson, 15 years of age, Dunedin, whose parents reside at South was killed at Burt's foundry, Dunedin, during the luncheon hour on Thursday. Deceased, with other boys, was playiug with a crane in the yard when the jib fell, crushing in his chest. Death was instantaneous. Leslie Deguid also had his left leg broken.