Serious Accident.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3077, 11 December 1888, Page 2

Serious Accident.

CHRibicuußcif, , Joseph Gaidinei, 'nJoutljiiiWd at .Talljots wool stores, Ly®ii,'#) ceivetl talon's injuries vosferday,'? ]fo ": 1 consequence of. the.maclniijsrv brea!s-"■■■: Ijij 1 , Ijig sjcujl w/IP fiplit'and' lijs'trHh '• ift ¥# I tM | m'Mti i| exactly how )t ljip~ lafl a I,wis found iiuooitßcious and is not 'eji nected to recover, '< ■ \

-MOBS FIRES. ' ■' Gisboknk, Tuesday. At about two this morning « (ire broke dut in Lowe street in a sixrooiued housn occupied by Messrs F. v Morgan, Grant anil Niccol. The occupants barely escaped in their night olothes ami savnl nothing. A , foli(. idoiuetl cottage adjoining, owned by Ml; E. K,'Brown and occnpnl liy Mr C. Buller.was burned to llie ground, Tlia flames got hold of a ten roomed liotiso occupied by Mrs Bourke, but were extinguished without furious dannge. Insurance six roomed house £250 in the Union Office, on tho cottage £l5O in the New Zealand and £SO on Morion's effecls in the Uiiion. Tlicro is no clue to the origin of the 6re.

Crushed to death by a Working Bullock. 4„i New Plymouth, Tuesday, ' A fatal accident occurred yesterday near Inglowood, Daniel Woodhcad was about to'unyoke his bullocks from the dray, but before lie hud taken out tho pair ono of the animals started crushing him between the pole of tho dray and itself, The man was internally injured and died last night,

Supreme Court. Auckland, Tuesday, At tho Supreme Court in tho case of Hunter, charged with embezzlement counsel aßked that accused might be dealt with under the Probation Act, Judgo Gillies replied the prisoner was guilty of several charges of ombozzlement and considered lie should not receive the benefit of tho Act of Probation. It ought only be grantel in oases of sudden temptation where young persons gave way to the offence of embezzlement. Accused waa sentenced to two years in each case, to bo concurrent.