ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2887, 29 October 1895, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Mias Oxby, school mistress at Gapes’s Valley, met with a painful accident at Geraldine on Saturday last, while riding into town. Her horse, a frisky one, shied at a piece of paper ou the roadway near Dunlop & Co.’s corner, and the unfortunate young lady was thrown with considerable force. In order to save her head, Miss Oxby, in falling, put out her right arm with the result that she sustained a broken wrist, which, with the shock to the system, rendered her unconscious. The sufferer was immediately carried into Mr Mee’s, where she was attended to by Dr Teevan, and we believe is now progressing favourably.

At Timaru yesterday a youth named John Henderson, a seaman, was charged with drunkenness on Sunday, and with stealing one of the sauce castors from a cruet belonging to the Club Hotel. VVheu arrested for drunkenness the sauce bottle was found in his pocket He was fined ss, or 24 hours, for drunkenness, and convicted and discharged for the other offence, as the police said ha boro a good character ou board his vessel. The train from Hawora to New Plymouth ou Saturday encountered a bullock on the lino. After boiug carried some distance the carcase fouled the wheels aud the engine was thrown off the line on to its side, at the same time derailing one of the carriages. The driver, fireman, and passengers escaped without injury.

At Napier on','Saturday a boy named John Tracey was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for stealing two bottles of whisky from the Te Aute Railway Refreshment Rooms. He was also charged with setting fire to the Railway Station, but the charge was dismissed.

Two houses in Buckle Street, Wellington, owned by Mrs Isaacs and Mrs J. Wilson, aud occupied by throe families named Hood, Harris, and Morris, wore burned down on Saturday morning, and very little was saved. The insurance amounted to £523. A man named John Dooley, of Geraldine, got on the train going south at Timaru ou Saturday afternoon instead of that going north, and fell off the platform of the carriage when opposite the Atlas Mill. Luckily he fell clear of the train and was not much hurt. He was taken to the Shamrock Hotel, At Timaru ou Sunday morning one o £ the bedrooms of the Club Hotel wa a discovered to be on fire, ami it and a private parlor adjoining suffered damage to the extent of fully £25. As neither of the rooms were let, it is supposed thar in the hurry aud bustle of Saturday night someone slipped into the room unawares, that a candle was left burning, and the room thu* set ou fire. A case of infanticide was reported to the Wellington police on Sunday. A young woman, a domestic servant, gave birth to a child, which was subsequently found dead, wrapped up in a blanket, in her room. The girl is to ill to bo arrested, but is nude r surveillance Apod mortem examination of the child is being made, and an inquest will be hold.