NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 3329, 11 January 1898, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

■ ea “~ Press Assoc Mi n. Napier. January 10. A seaman on the barquentine Pendla Hill named John Copeland was drowned yesterday morning by fallingoll the wharf whilst .attempting to board the vessel. The evidence of the captain showed that deceased was paid 10s on Saturday night. He was seen yesterday morning at breakfast, when he was not drunk, though 1 suffering from drink taken overnight, but ho would have been fit for work had his services been required that morning. Phe medical evidence showed that a wound on the right side of deceased’s forehead was the result of his coming violently into contact with some hard object, causing a fracture of the skull. A verdict of accidental death was returned. Auckland, January 10. During the voyage of the barque Weuona from Newcastle a seaman named Joseph Dominic fell from aloft; and was killed. At the Northern Wairoa races D. Donovan, of Dargavillo, was run over by a racehorse, and sustained such injuries that his life is despaired of. Robert Thompson, grocer, of Newton road, out his throat with a carving-knife, almost severing the windpipe. Only his wife was in the house at the time. Thompson, who is 50 years of age, has been suffering from heart disease. Little hope is entertained of his recovery. George Huddlestone, keeper of the powder magazine at Mount Eden, has been arrested on a charge of the theft of ,£2OO, the moneys of the Queen.' A Christchurch bookmaker. 0. Spencer, has been arrested at Whangarei on a warrant of commitment and brought to Auckland. At the inquest on Alexander Dolley, a verdict of found drowned was returned. Wanganui, January 10. The sittings of the District Court opened to-day before His Honor District Judge Kettle. Harry Martin, a lad of 19 years, pleaded guilty to stealing a bicycle, and was sentenced to three months imprisonment, and John Hogan, a boy of 16, was admitted to probation on a charge of breaking and -entering a dwelling, to which he pleaded guilty. Edward Wilberforce Spooner pleaded not guilty to certain alleged breaches of the Bankruptcy Act, the chief of which was not keeping proper books of accounts. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Christchurch, January 10. At a special meeting of the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College today, a resolution was passed expressing the Board's regret at the sudden death of Mrs T. S. Poster, lady principal, and recording its sense of the loss thereby occasioned to the cause of secondary education in Canterbury. The Board resolved to advertise throughout the colony for applications for the position, at a salary of £4OO a year,-without fees. Peildjno, January 10. The body of a man, said to be that of Edward Lalley, was found in the Oroua river yesterday afternoon, about two miles above Peilding. It had evidently been in the river for several days, and he is believed to have committed suicide. Lalley was a bushraan, and was last seen in Peilding about a fortnight ago, when he arrived from Palmerston, and said he was going to Rangiwahia to work. New Plymouth, January 10. At the inquest on the young man Herbert XTpjohn, whose body was found in the Waiwakaiho river on Sunday, a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. Deceased arrived in New Plymouth a week ago from Christchurch, where his parents