ACCIDENTS OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2483, 30 March 1893, Page 3

ACCIDENTS OFFENCES, ETC.

The body of Robert Reid, a rabbiter, was found in the Mataura river, Otago

A man named James Hyndmau, fell over a 40 feet face of a mining claim at Kumara on Saturday night. He was found on Sunday morning quite dead. On Monday Mr J. Crawshaw, corporation contractor, Dunedin, was taken with a fit in the town hall yard and died a few minutes later. Death is believed to be due to failure of the heart’s action.

Joy Fisher, three years of age, daughter of Mr Robert Fisher, of ‘ )yford, North Canterbury, was accidentally suffocated on Monday by the lid of a box falling upon her neck. A youth named Growcott fell down a 40 feet shaft at Back Creek, West Coast, on Monday, morning. Ho was discovered shortly after by his mates, who missed him. He only experienced a sprained ankle and a few bruises,

The Napier police made ail effort to get a conyictiou .of Several men of the spieler fraternity. Counsel raised the point that they were illegally in ctstody, having been arrested without a warrant, and Mr Turnbull R.M., upheld the objection. Warrants were immediately written and the men arrested, but they got off as they proved they had hawkers’ licenses.

At Waimate on Monday, a man named Angus Mclntyre was found guilty of stealing a£s note,the property 5 Walter Ford, at Waihourauga, on or about the 15th December last. Sentence was deferred until April 4th to allow the Probation officer to X’eport. A widow woman named Mary Larkins, a settler at Kawakawa, Auckland, was riding along the bridle track, when her horse bolted, tier foot was caught in the stirrup-iron, and she was * dragged over a mile before the horse stopped. A man coming by found her with her foot still in the stirrup, quite dead. A young mail n¥h ec i Frederick 0. Alp in, met iyjth his death in a painful manner at Upper Rangitikei,near Marton, on Monday. With his brother he was driving a traction engine up a hill when some part of the driving gear gave way and the engine commenced to run back. Both jumped out, but Fred was knocked down and run over. Both legs were broken and he was also crushed in the region of the abdomen. Death occurred about four hours afterwards. Deceased was a son of one the oldest sottlers. ip, district.

At the K.M. Qkmrt, Tirnaru, on Tuesday, seven firemen and greasers on board the s.s. Morayshire were brought up in custody, five of them charged with various assaults. Two of them, named Hunt sqid | Harris, were charged with, assaulting Captain Millar • (isoa.r Moss with assuming H. Robson, bhief officer - , W. J. FnP; IU second '' engineer. -".‘/I L hvH SQ u'a saloon ; T. Connolly with assaulting J. Small, chief engineer, and J. McKenzie with assaulting T. Donovan, a fireman. The above named and two o thers wore also charged with ref usin g duty. Air White appeared for the complainants and Mr Raymond for the defendants. The evidence went to show that the men complained to the captain at Oamaru about the forecastle being dirty, that they had no key to it, and that they no light to read at night. He promised to see to these things, but the men refused to go to work and went on shore. On their return,when ordered by the chief mate to fall to they assaulted him. The captain arrived shortly afterwards, and the chief mate made a complaint to him, and while they were talking the men came forward again, and ?vftev asking the captain what he was going to do with them struck him twice in the face . no captain drew the atten+*‘ • passenger standing bv +' ' -* Ol . l , °* a on his reply in" " - the as f au1 ’ aad The ch ; '* o ’ yes, he was also struck. and second engineers wore also \ on another occasion and it

appeared that a man named Donovan, who was engaged at Oamaru as a substitute fireman while working in the stokahole, had a bag of adies weighing 601 bor 701 b dropped upon him from above. Ho was knocked down and had his face badly cut, and when lie went on deck to report the occurrence ho was struck in the eye by his assailant. After some evidence had been given the men pleaded guilty, ihe Bench,after consideration, said they were prepared to take a lenient view of the matter, though the men had acted in a disgraceful way. The whole of them, for wilfully neglecting duty, were lined six days pay and ordered to pay the expenses of the proceedings pro rata. Moss and Harris, for their disgraceful assaults upon the officers and the passenger — th; latter a very serious matter —besides the loss of six days’ pay and expenses, were sentenced to four mouths’ imprisonment with hard labour, and to be discharged from the ship. The chairman trusted the sentences would be a warning to the others. There seemed to have been a combination among them to get clear of the ship in the colony or something of the sort. There was no evidence to show that they had been badly used in any way. He hoped the other live would go on board the ship and conduct themselves properly. The prosecutor’s solicitor’s fee was fixed at £3 3s, and all costs amounted to 18s each man. The amounts were paid by Captain Millar on the men signing orders.