ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2912, 28 December 1895, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Thomas Ghent, night groom in Paterson and Company’s stables, Auckland, was found dead in the stable, it is believed from heart disease. He had been refused life insurance. He leaves a widow and two children.

A man and woman named Edward have been found drowned in a creek at Hendersou Valley, Auckland. No further particulars have been recived.

At New Plymouth, a native named Wehi was convicted upon charges of sly grog selling at Parihaka, and was fined £SO in each case with costs £ls 18s ; in default three months’ imprisonment. William Jeffreys, while jumping off a load of hay on a farm near Kaiapoi on Saturday, fell on the hames of the team. He received injuries to his abdomen from which he succumbed.

At the inquest on the body of Henry Hill, who died from injuries received on the railway on Saturday, the evidence of the driver and guard showed that the man walked on to the line and deliberately laid his head on one of the rails. A verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind brought on by long suffering from asthma, was returned. The officials were exonerated from all blame.

Alfred Cook, aged 9, was drowned in a dam at Warnock’s factory, Auckland. He was playing aud fell in. A sou of Mr Reatou, gaoler, Mount Eden, aged 15, was drowned at the excursion at Pine Island.

James Donald was found dead in his bedroom in the Crown Hotel, Dunedin, on Tuesday, it is supposed from heart disease.

The barque Grassmere, 441 tons, struck on a sunken rock off' Cape Terawhiti, on Christmas morning, during fine weather, aud became a total wreck. Her crew were saved.

The New Judge.— Sir Patrick Buckley was formally sworn in on Monday as Judge of the Supreme Court. Some time ago I was troubled with an attack of rheumatism, I used Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and was completely cured. I have sirce advised many of my friends and customers to try the remedy and all speak highly of it. SIMON Goldbaum, San Luis Rey, Cal.—For sale by J. C. CMdie, Temuka and Morrison Bros.. Geraldine.

1 young man named George Phillpotts, storeman in the employ of Tnrnbull and Co. was riding along Lambton Quay, Wellington, on Christmas night, when his horse shied, and Phillpotts being unseated the horse fell on him. Ha sustained fracture of the skull and died half an hour after admiseion to the hospital. He was about 28 years of age and only recently married.

I have two little grand children who are teething this hot summer weather and are troubled with bowel complaint. I give them Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy and it acta like a charm. I earnestly recommend it for children with bowel troubles. I was myself taken with a severe attack of bloody flux, with cramps and pains in my stomach, one-third of a bottle of this remedy cured me. Within twenty-four hours I was out of bed and doing my house work. Mrs W. L. Dunagan. Bon-aqua, Hickman Co., Tenn.—For sale by J. C. Oddie, Temuka, and Morrison Bros., Geraldine.

A girl named Jane Connell, 18, a resident of Wanganui, was killed at the Wellington Railway Station on Christmas morning. Seeing her uncle on the platform she attempted to leave her carriage before the train stopped, fell, and the wheels of several carriages passed over her ho id.

While at Peekskill, N.Y„ Mr J. A. Scriven, a prominent manufacturer of New York City, purchased a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. Such good results were obtained from its use that he sent back to the druggist from whom he had obtained it for two more bottles of the same remedy. When you have a cough or cold give this preparation a trial, and like Mr Scriven you will want it when again in need of such a medicine. It is a remedy of great worth and merit. —For sale by J. 0. Oddie, Temuka, and Morrison Bros., Geraldine. A half-caste named William Joss, and a foreigner known as Shiney, are supposed to have been drowned at Stewart Island. They were seen in a whaleboat on Monday, making for Halfmoon Bay, bat they never arrived there. A strong gusty wind sprang up that afternoon. Joss leaves a large family. Holloway’s Pills.— lmportant lor the delicate. —"It is difficult to determine which is the more trying to the human constitution, the damp, cold days of autumly and winter, or the keen, dry, eastern, winds of spring. Throughout the seasons good health may be maintained by occasional doses of Holloway’s Pills, which purify the blood and act as wuolcsome stimulants to the skin, stomach, liver, bowels, and kidneys. This celebrated medicine needs but a fair trial to convince the ailing and desponding' that it will restore aud cheer them without danger, pain, or inconvenience. No family should bo without a supply of Holloway's Pills and Ointment, as by a timely recourse to them the first erring function may lie reclaimed, suffering may be spared, and IJfe saved.