FIRE IN AUCKLAND.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2738, 4 June 1894, Page 2

FIRE IN AUCKLAND.

TEBBIBLE ACCIDENT.

(PER UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.)

AUCKLAND, June 4.

A shop and dwelling in Manukau road, Parnell, owned by tbe Presbyterian Orphanage Trust, and ocoupied by Edwd. Wood, grocer, was bnrned tbiß morninp. Insurances : Building, £350 in New Zea* land Office; Wood, £314 in North German. Mrs-Wood escaped tbrongb an upper window with a child lour years old. She foil from the verandah and fractured her thigb, the child's leg being also broken. _____________ SAMOAN AFFAIRS. +. (per pbess association.) . LONDON, Jane 2. Mrß. Stevenson, novelist, in a letter to the Times, accuses consuls in Samoa cf injuring the prestige of Chief Justice Ide in pardoning those guilty of head hunting ; be also claims amnesty for Mataafa and his adherents. Tbe Times, while not sympathising with the complaints, urges extremists ip Germany to. accept New Zealand's protectorate with equal treat* ment to subjects of all natiouß. ' THE GIBBS CASE. - I f /■ „ - ■*■ „■■ . < . (Taranaki Herald,), , ,y, y i ' George Gibbs was oharged at the New Plymouth Police Court on Friday with a breach of' the Prisons Act, 1383, by I attempting to escape from custody. He pleaded not guilty. Mr Bickerby, the Governor of tbe gaol, explained tbat tbe pement bad been worked away round tbe iron bars in tbe window, and on search being made for an instrument \c was discovered tbat a spoon bad been shaded into a chisel end and used to work the ceme^fe away. The holes bad been filled up' with rags, which bad been smeared over with whiting. Each prisoner was. allowed rags and whiting in his cell for cleaning purposes. ' Mr Runciman asked if any other prisoner bad been in the same cell. Mr Biokerby said tbat no other prisoner bad been io the cell since Gibbs was sentenced in April last, The walls could not have been tampered with ; previously, as the obllb were always inspected. John Theobaid, warder, gave evidence that on Thursday afternoon be was examining tbe cells, and when he went in prisoner's cell bis attention was drawn to a place which appeared to, have been tampered with. On examination it was found that there were holes made in the wall near the bars, and these holes were stuffed up with rags and smeared over with whiting. Prisoner had nsed up nearly all the whiting and rag's. ' ' Prisoner said that. the marks were in the cell when he was first pot there, and the dampness, of tbe Whiting over the holes he accounted for by stating that the rain on Sunday m'gbt bad come in through tbe crevices. He farther added that be bad no desire to escape from the gaol, for be had papers there which be desired to take with him, as they would prove that be was not ajtogetber-guiJty of the charge of . embezzlement" for' which he was. Bentenoed. ' Tbe Bench sentenced prisoner to ten days' oloee confinement in irons.

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