SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.
Nelson, Monday. An accident took place on the Port road, where the hill is being excavated to obtain material lor the railway earth-work. Fifty tons of earth fell, burying two of the men who were at work there. Their names are Downes and Kelly. The former is an old settler, and the latter, an inmigrant by the ' Adamant.' Twenty minutes elkpsed before the bodies were recovered, when it was found that both men were dead. Downes leaves a widow and nine children, and Kelly a widow^nd- four children.
Wellington, Monday. Denis A. Wright has been committed for trial on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences from W. A. Moorhouse.
Dunedin, Monday. His Honor, Mr Prendergast, Chief Justica 61 the Colony, presided at the opening of the Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court this morning. The members of the Bar mustered strongly and it had been their intention to present an address, bub the Chief Justice expressed a wish that it should not be done. In his charge he referred in graceful terms to the retirement of Mr Justice Chapman.
Blenheim Tuesday. A man named William MacDonald committed suicide on Sunday in the Blenheim lock-up, by strangling himself with a leather strap, which he fastened round his throat and tied to the toe of the left foot. He was in custody on a charge of having attenipted|to commit suicide on a- previous occasion. A coroner's inquest was held last evening, and the verdict returned was, " Suicide, while laboring under mental aberration."
Dunedin, Tuesday. At the Criminal Sessions yesterday, Henry Pearce was acquitted on a charge of robbery from a man in a house of ill-fame. John Haggerty was convicted of stabbing Constable Hernon at Green Island. George Johnston, after a protracted trial, was found guilty of rape on his own step-daughter. Sentence was deferred. A man named Wright, a baker, attempted suicide to-day. The doctor who attended him pronounced him insane, and he was taken to the Lunatic Asylum.
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Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 454, 15 April 1875, Page 2
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332SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS. Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 454, 15 April 1875, Page 2
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