ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1184, 29 May 1884, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

A seaman named Henry Wade, during a gale, was washed overboard from the schooner Waireka, while on her passage from Sydney to New Plymouth. The unfortunate man was seen swimming for ten minutes, but nothing could be done to save him.

The master of the schooner Marmion, which arrived at Kaipara from the South on Monday, telegraphs that the mate of the vessel, John Edward Dale, was lost overboard in a gale off Cape Egoiont oo Wednesday, the 21st initant, at 3 a.m. One of the Wellington Salvation lasses was on Monday fined 20s for using obscene language on Saturday while intoxicated. An accident which ended fatally occurred on Monday (says the Press) to one of a party of Christchurch sportsmen. They had gone rabbit shooting to Montgomery's Rabbit Island in the Waieaakariri. About half-past four two of them put up a rabbit, and both started in pursuit, hoping to get a shot. One pf them, Wm. Munroe, a young man sixteen years old, whose family resides in the Papanui road, was in front, when his companion tripped in a rabbit hole and his gun went off. The charge of shot struck Munroe in the left side just above the lung and he fell. His companions made a stretcher of flax-sticks and carried him two miles to their trap. They than drove to the Hospital, which they reached at 6.30, and two of them, Messrs Dualopand Spencer, took the wounded man iu. He died however, in twenty minutes' time. When the accident occurred deceased was about a chain ahead of his companion, and from most guns the shot would have spread so much at that distance that the wounds inflicted, however severe, would hardly be mortal. In this case it unfortunately happened that the gun was a thokebore. An Italian named Dalmonico Barrabata, was arrested while leaving Auckland in the Zealandia, on a warrant for wife desertion *t Wellington, He had £l5O in his possession, and his wife is said to be left destitute.

AtthePalmerston Resident Magistrate's Court, on Tuesday, a charge was brought against a schoolmaster named Witrburton of ill-treatiug a boy named Ross, ten years old. The boy had been accuse*! of telling a falsehood, and the teacher first made him kneel and beg a boy's pardon ; thtn he hoisted him on another boy's back and strapped him ; then he made the boy ' rido the donkey,' that is, the boy was placed astride a desk and made to leap along it, and was flogged every time he jumped. One boy said he counted 88 strokes thus inflioted, but it was denied that there were so many. Th« Magistrate (Mr Robinson) dismissed tha case, saying that he could not think it such an excess of severity as> compel him to put defendant in the position of a criminal. At the pame time he thought if defendant had fullyfloonsidered the matter he would not have inficted such a punishment. A married man named Beiry was drowned while attempting to cross the Tukituki at Patungata (Wellington), on Saturday, \t the Resident Magistrate's Court, on Timaru, on Tuesday last a man named Josiah Spenee was committed to Sunnyside, on the certificates of Drs Lovegrove and Drew that he is of unsound mind and unfit to be at huge.

At the Wellington Magistrate's Court, on Tuesday uiorniog, Frederick Cooper, a

compositor in the Government Printing Office, was fined £5 and costs for a breach of the Printers and Newspapers Act, 1868. by printing and circulating a squib about the Thorndon election without attaching an imprint thereto. A dreadful accident occurrfid on Tinsday afternoon at .Nelson to a little son of Mr H. D. Jackson, aged ten. He was leading a horse te a paddock to tether him out, when the rope became entangled round his leg, The horse boltsd and dragged the boy some distance. Wheu picked up the flesh and skin from the calf was found stripped. off and pulled over the heel on to the sole of the foot. Three doctors have been with the boy and have sewn up the flesh.