ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2890, 5 November 1895, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Major Te Wheoro, the well-known Waikato chief, died at his settlement at Church Hill, Auckland. A Napier telegram says :—Three girls named Mary McKay (aged 16), Hettie McKay (aged 14), and Lena Gibson (aged 15), were arrested at Danevirke on Friday. They stole money from two shops at the Spit, and then packed their Bwagß and left for the country. They slept at a restaurant one night, uudor a railway bridge the next night, eventually taking shelter in a wooden hut in the bush, whero they were traced by a detective. The girls were brought before the maftistrate and remanded, with a view of being plaoed under proper control. A narrow escape from drowning occurred at Wellington on Saturday night. Mr Clapham, a goldminer, of Blenheim, while attempting to board the Penguiu, bound to Lytteltou, fell between the Penguin and the wharf. He was rescued with some difficulty, and was then apparently dead, but Sergeant O'Malley, of the Wellington police force, ordered his removal to a hotel. Medical aid was summoned, and means of resuscitation used with the result that in an hour the man was brought to, and on Sunday was in a fair way towards recovery. The body of Robert Telford Elliot was found on Saturday in the Pomahaka river. Mr Harry Mackley, aged 20 years clerk at the Frozen Meat Company' works at Wallacetovvn, was drowned in the estuary on Saturday evening, while bathing.