Accidents, Fires, Offences, etc.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2042, 22 December 1886, Page 2

Accidents, Fires, Offences, etc.

(Per Preaa Association.) , Auckland, Dec 21. Nicholas Brierton, working oa Murphy’s Taapiri railway extension aontraot, was f jund dead with his throat cut and a razor lying beside him, He had injured his back at work, and had knocked of! and was found two days afterward* as above. Nothing is known as to his antecedents. By a fire at Parnell to-day two shop* were destroyed, Stidwell (draper), insured in the South British for L 125 and Id the New Zealand for Ll5O, and Richards uninsured. Two of Joseph Masefleld’s|ehildred wert drowned to, day at Kaipara, The bodie* were recovered. Juvenile crime is still attracting prominent notice. At the Police Court today a lad named Edward Wilson, who had been twice previously imprisoned and flogged, was sentenced to three months’ hard labor for stealing a pair of oars and row locks. Four boys were charged with stealing fruit from orchards and were dismissed with a caution. The police have recovered the whole of the monies taken from the Ohaewei Post Office safe. Some was found in a paddock and under stones. Napier, Dee 21. The South British loss by the fire on Saturday is only three thousand. A boy aged 10 years, the son of Daniel Cotton, a member of the Borough Council, was drowned this afternoon in a water hole at the Spit. Fkildxxo, Deo, 20. An unoccupied house in Warwick-street the property of Constable Price, was burasd down at midnight. Insured iu the National for L3OO. Dunedin, Deo, 21. In the Bankruptcy Court to-day Hugh Mitchell, of the late firm of Morrison and Mitchell, auctioneers, was sentenced to 7 days imprisonment without ht'd labor,for contracting a debt when be had no reasonable or probable gronnd of being abls to pay it. Kivtval Op Trade.— Amongst tbs signs of a coming revival in trade, say*, the Auckland Heratd, is the steady remittance o! credits to the woolgrowers iu this Colony, through the rise in the prioe of this staple industry in the London market. Instead of having “ drawbacks” of last year, some very sub-t*nia! sum* have come forward by the list two or three mails from England, and hart greatly eased sheep farmer*. One company received by the last mail no less than £60,000 of credits, and another L2O,