ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2216, 21 September 1886, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

A MAN named Ghent, employed as overseer at Mason's nurseries, Parnell, was drowned in a tank in the gardens on Sunday. How he came by his death is a mystery, as there was only four feet of water in the tank. Thomas Patterson, a market gardener, was driving a dray over the Cannon-street crossing, Invercargill, on Saturday evening, when he was mn into by the Dunedin express. Owing to the high wind he did not hear the whistle of the engine. The horse was killed, and Patterson sustained severe injuries, necessitating his removal to the hospital. A child named Sarkin, six ytiars old, was knocked down and killed by a tiamcir in Dunedin on Saturday. No blame attaches to the driver. Charles Hodgson, bank clerk, was re m.inded on a second charcre of embezzlement at Wellington, on Saturday. George Joseph Russell was committed for trial at Chustclnirch, on Saturday, on a chaigeof perjury in a mil case in the Resident Magistrate's Court, Christchurch. He swore that he had not signed an agieement, while scxeral witnesses proved that he had. A timber -laden schooner has been wrecked at the Mahia, Hawke's Bay. Nothing is known <>f her, or whether her crew has been s;i\- d.