ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1230, 21 August 1884, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

A commission agent at Milton, named R. R. Jones, was found dead in his bed yesterday morning. A Thoaru bailiff named Badcock was kicked off his horse by one of a number of horses he was driving at Pleasant Point. He was struck below the knee, the leg being broken. A fatal accident occurred on Tuesday a* the Tauranga wharf. A carter named Win. Kirwin fell down the hatchway of the steamer Wellington. He was picked up insensible and died shortly after. The man who cut Ids throat at Mon gonui Bluff Hotel proved to be a Mr Lawlor, a gum digger, formerly of the 64th Regiment. He bad tried to drown and hang himself the previous evening. Michael Haydon took “rough on rats” at his lodging at Auckland, and w as sent to the hospital, where he is now recovering. He is alleged to have been drinking, and business matters were troubling him. A case of shooting is reported from Kaikaita, two miles from Mongonui (Auckland). A young man named Laman fired at and dangerously wounded a native, mistaking him for a pig. The wounded man is likely to recover, A burglarious attempt to break into the Bank of New Zealand, Waipukurua, took place at two o’clock on Sunday morning. The burglar broke through the window and door, and was then alarmed by the waking of the agent, and escaped, leaving no trace. A native youth named Porona Amakaraka has shot himself at Haotu, near Cambridge, Auckland. He had been crossed in love. He was noticed to leave the settlement, and two shots were heard. His relations went to see what was the matter, and arrived in time to see a third and fatal shot fired. He had tied the gun to a tree and pulled the trigger with a string. The tri-yearly sitting of the Supreme Court at Invercargill opens on Tuesday, Five criminal cases are set down, but none of them are serious. There are two divorce cases (the first tried there), an action for seduction, and a large amount of civil business, including a claim against the Public Works Department for £1489, for compensation for land taken for the Seaward Cush Railway, The adjourned inquest on the burning of Charnock’s house in 1883 atNew Plymouth, concluded last Tuesday evening. Several additional witnesses were called, and the jury returned the following verdict “The jury are of opinion that the premises of George Charnock, in St, Aubyn street, were wilfully set tire to, on 29th January, 1883, and the evidence points to Mrs Charnock as the guilty party,” The jury added a rider to this eflect; “Thatgroat credit is due to Sergeant-Major Pardy, for the skill he has shown in bringing out the evidence after so long a time had elapsed since the fire.” The Coroner committed Mrs Charnock for trial on a charge of arson, and Mr Charnock was remanded, as Sergeant-Major Pardy stated he would have to bring both prisoners before another Cpurt pp other, charges,

At the R.M. Courr, 1 iraaru, on Tuesday last, Dennis II ff-roan was fined £2 and coats, £4 4s Bd, for assaulting Richard Hoare at the Arowbeuua Hotel on the 12th instant. The case arose out of a quarrel over the payment for some drinks. A fatal accident has occurred at retone railway warkshops. A young man named Albert Janies was engaged fixing a driving belt on a pulley, when he slipped and fell on the pulley, which throw him on to the saw bench, head first, a distance of ten. feet. He was at once taken to town by special train, but died inst before reaching the hospital. Ho only recently arrived from England. A respectable-looking young woman named Rosina Smith was arrested at Auckland on Sunday night. She wont out of her lodgings in Parnell, whore she had a baby three weeks ago, in a storm last Saturday night, and returned without the baby and with her dress muddy. She stated her friends had taken the baby to Waikato. The landlord informed the police. She states the child was ill, and she gave it laudanum and threw it over the cliffs at St. George’s Bay. She declines to state her antecedents. A later telegram states that Rosina Smith s baby has been found by the police, buried in Mason’s garden, Parnell Road. The woman was taken up to Parnell in a cab by a detective, and when passing the garden she said “Don’t take mo there ; it’s there.” She now states that it was ill and she gave it a dose of medicine to make it quiet, when it died. She also states she was deceived by a married man. A charge of wilful murder was preferred against her, and she was brought before the Magistrate and the case remanded till the 26th instant. It has transpired the accused proceeded to I the office of the Registrar of Births, l Marriages and Deaths on Monday, and there registered the birth of bor child in the name of Emily Wilson. She £. a 7° her own name as Rosina Emily Smith, and the father as Wm. Wilson. Very little has yet been discovered regarding the prisoner’s antecedents, although she states she came out in Wellington, It is surmised she was an immigrant by the Rangitikei. Throe months ago she opened a baby linen shop at Kangarahape Road, under the name of Miss Wilson. The shop was fitted out for her by a man named Wilson, a carpenter, to whom it was understood she was engaged to be married. An inquest on the child will be held on Thursday, and in the meantime an autopsy will be made which will P r0 ‘ bably lead to the discovery of the truth or falsity of the laudanum story, Ihe accused has refused to take any food since she has been in custody, and it is stated she has neither eaten nor drank since Sunday last.