ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1253, 16 October 1884, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

A negro cook named George Watkins was arrested at Auckland on Saturday evening, charged with the larceny of £23 and two watches from a boarding-house, (where he was employed at the time,) while the proprietor of the house was in a dying condition. A fasionably dressed young man named Arthur Dollinge, recently from Sydney, has been arrested at Auckland on four charges of larceny of carpets at the Hobson Hotel, where he had been a boarder. The property taken was worth about £IOO.

A man named Charles Hall was drowned at Whangaroa (Auckland), whilst rafting timber.

A man named Jacob Hansen (supposed to be a dangerous lunatic) has been arrested at Auckland charged with attempting to murder a man named John Constantine, at Wainui. A man named William Sims, who recently served a sentence for defrauding by means of the “ match box” trick, was brought up at the Police Court, Dunedin, on Monday, charged with defrauding a young man of £7 by mean* of the “ three card’ manoeuvre. His counsel urged that the game was not illegal, and the Bench reserved judgment.

A man named D-miel Denihey had hia head fractured at Waihoa Forks an Tuesday. He waa thrown from hia horse and fell against a railway sleeper. Two lads named George Hart and O. Howies, narrowly escaped death at Auckland through eating tutu berries. A man named Charles Braddock while in an epileptic fit fell down a well at the Oropi Sawmills (Auckland), where he was employed, and was drowned. A man named Thomas Henry died at the Napier railway station on Monday of “exposure and starvation caused through drmk.” An aged woman named Elizabeth Jenkins was burned to death on Tuesday at her residence near Winton, in Southland, Harvey Roll, 24 years of age, son of Mr J. C. Roll, chemist, Kaiapoi, was found dead on Tuesday morning in the premises at the rear of his residence, Charles street, Christchurch. He was subject to epileptic fits.