ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, E

Temuka Leader, Issue 2854, 13 August 1895, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, E

A painful accident happened at Orari Gorge last Friday morning to Mr George Hammond, of VVoodbury. While engaged in fixing the tail baud of a horse-cover tho horse struck out and caught Mr Hammond a little below the knee with such force as to render liiia helpless. Assistance was got at once, and the sufferer was driven home. Dr Hislop was sent for, and on examination found the tibia seriously injured, though not broken. It will probably bo some weeks before Mr Hammond can resume his usual work. Burglars entered the Grosvenor Hotel in Madras street, Christchurch, between midnight on Saturday and half-past six o'clock on Sunday morning, and ransacked tho place. His clothes were taken from the room the landlord, Mr O'Neill, was sleeping in into an adjoining room. From the pockets were taken a bunch of keys, £l3, and a pocket book. From the bar was taken a few shillings, and from a cupboard in a room adjoining Mr O'Neill's bedroom a cashbox containing £SO. [t ia evident that |the robbery was perpetrated by men well acquainted with the house. This is the second time Mr O'Neill has been robbed. When he was landlord of the Junction Hotel at Halswell he was robbed of £4O, but on that occasion the police recovered the missing property. At the Wellington Supreme Court in the Sommerville murder case, the jury, after an hour and a-half's deliberation, returned a verdict of " Not Guilty, on the ground of insanity." The jury were then discharged, and the Chief Justice ordered prisoner to be kept in strict confinement iu the Terrace Gaol during the pleasure of the Colonial Secretary. Notwithstanding the late hour at which the trial concluded, the Court was crowded, and scarcely standing room was available. A large number of women were present during the proceedings, and fully twenty, mostly young women, waited until the verdict was delivered. At tho inquest at Hukerenni, Auckland, on the body of Thomas Broome, a gum-digger, aged 70, formerly of the 58th Regiment, and tvho was through the northern war, the jury returned a vordict that he had died from natural causes, with a rider that it i 3 a disgrace to New Zealand that an old soldier had been allowed to die in obscurity, had been neglected, aud never got any assistance from tho Goverment for his services.