FATAL ACCIDENT AT ONEHUNGA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 898, 29 September 1866, Page 5

FATAL ACCIDENT AT ONEHUNGA.

Ii" &gamv becomes pur painful; duty to record ! another/ fatal accident in . .the-Mariukau;: by; which a man named. adischarged : soldier from thS;,ißili : -'ltcyaiVJCrishiilost}b.is life; ' It appears that the deceased.hid''c6metb;:Auck- ; laud by the Stprmbird a few. days since.pn some ; business ednneuted. return: to Wahgariuiby the, same; vesselyesterr. day. On Thursday evening deceased/wbdi had been drinking* went on'.'board'the vessel; where lie only remained on. shore, and by some water. The tide';being; out.at.the.ttmev Ke was; with spine difficultyrescued. Ii place.of going on. board after his escape, it appears :he went, I and changed bis clothes/ and: about 9p ihi he carne down, on the vvharf with, a man whom-he had employed to carry a bos. Erpoi what yro ■ can learn lie. Was then in si state of. intoxication.; The man who had brought the box used every; endeavour to get him oil the. wharf, but ■nndihg: it impossible to do so>heleft himabout9:36p.m ! .. The deceased man tried to get on. board the, steamer Prince Alfred, but the man pn YFUtcli would not allow him. V About 10 p.m. the men on board the Prince; Alfred heard a. cry, and on running on deck, the deceased was seen in the water close along/ side the .stream. Ropes were thrown Jtb Mm' and a life buoy, but lie seems to have. been, unable to catch hold of either. A boat was at once manned. Captain. Parcjuhar, of the steamer Prince Alfred, went in. search of deceased, but.saw. nothing; of him. The tide was flowing very strong, at, the., time, and the body* no doubt* was carried : a long way up the harbour.. : ...- The deceased was a married man; and we. understand his wife is at Wanganui. The body; has not yet been recovered. A man named John Whelan, a private! in; the Military Train, was apprehended by the police yesterday morning on two charges of'larceny;; one for stealing a bundle of clothes from .pn. board the Prince Alfred steamer, the other fbir stealing some articles of clothing, and an American axe from Mr. Jackson, of this town.