ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2889, 2 November 1895, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

A lad named Frank Charteris, aged 9 years, a son of Mr D. Charteris, of Temuka, met with a rather serious accident on Wednesday last. He was, with some other boys, bird-nesting in some trees at the back of Mr J. Brown’s house, and fell from a good height and broke one of his legs. Mr Brown conveyed him home, where he was attended to by Sir William Blunden, and he is doing as well as can be expected. At Timaru yesterday a young man named Ruddle, a groom, was ordered to pay 5s a week towards the maintenance of his illegitimate child, also £3 18s 6d confinement expenses, and £1 Is solicitors’ fee. The complainant, aged about 20, said that she and defendant had “ kept company” for six years, with the consent of their parents.—ln a case against Geo. Waterhouse, a butcher, who in August last was ordered to pay £l7 4s expenses and 7s 6d per week for the maintenance of his illegitimate child, it was shown that he had made no attempt to comply with the order, and the magistrate, Mr C. A. Wray, ordered that he should be imprisoned at Napier, where he is now working, for three months with hard labor, Philip was found crushed under a fall of earth in a coal mine at Otepopo. He had evidently been dead some days. Ho leaves a wife and family in South Dunedin. In connection with the death of the young woman at Palmerston North, under circumstances which were regarded at the Coroner’s inquest as suspicious, a man named J. H. Brown, describing himself as a doctor, and his wife, Annie Brown, were arrested at Wellington on a charge of procuring abortion. Tom Ellison, the well-known footballer, has been arrested in connection with the death of the girl at Palmerston North, and charged with attempted abortion. He was remanded. Brown and his wife have been remanded for a week. The Christchurch police searched the premises that had been occupied by Brown, who was arrested in Wellington on a charge of performing an illegal operation. They seized about 200 letters and a lot of drug', and instruments, which will be sent in charge of an officer to Wellington. At the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court Benjamin Hale, charged with a breach of the Bankruptcy Act in obtaining Advances from the Union Bank by means of a false balance sheet, was committed for trial. He was also committed on a charge of not keeping proper books of account. Chin Gip, a Chinaman, has been found dead on the bank of the Molyueaux, four miles from Clyde. The body has apparently lain there four or five weeks, Mr James Mitchison Gardener, well known throughout New Zealand, died suddenly ai New Plymouth on Tuesday night of heart disease.