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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1839, 13 June 1874, Page 3

The Northern Wairoa correspondent of the Herald, Bend) the following report of three fatal accidents:—The first was a Edward Cotton, blacksmith at Te Kopuru, was called on to go and shoo some horses up the river, a distance of eight miles from the mill. . He left on the 29th May to do the above work, and after he had finished he indulged rather too much in brandy, and started for home again. He had not proceeded far when they (for'he had a native in the boat with him) were seen; to upset. A boat at once put off and saved thein, and they were taken to the Kaihu Store, which they had left only a few minutes before. They got a change of clothing aad started again, and had got abeut three miles down the river when the boat turned over again. The native

tried, hard to save the poor fellow, and in doing so very nearly lost his own life, and he died in the native's arms! He swam with the boat , and body for at least three-quarters of a mile before he reached the shore. The second case was a bush accident. Dennis Sullivan was , felling a small kauri tree, when it fell,. striking : another tree, and the butt flew back and knocked him down, the tree lying on him. Assistance was at once there, and by means o£ . screw-jacks the tree was lifted and the body taken from under. Ho lived about three hours in frightful pain, and delirious up to the time of death. The third cise was one Charles Shatworth, who was killed up in the Maungakahia, a distance of 60 or 70 miles by the . river, wh»re there is log getting going on.' There was a Bmall tree felled or cut a few days previous to the accident, and it lodged in another tree, and on the day in question the men and tho unfortunate man above were felling a large tree, and when it fell to the ground the shook must have caused the one lodged to fall and kill him on the spot, breaking both of his legs in two or three places, also his heck, He was a man about 35 years of age, formerly of Coromandel. He leaves a wife and four ' children to miurn his loss. : '

A Judge in Court without wig or g)wn is a . rare iucideab, but one which occurred rccsutly at Duuedin. The wig and gown belonging to His Honour : were with safety stowed away on board the 'Ladybird' for Wellin?toi, wither the judge was going or was in transitu, to that vessel, before the hour of the sitting of the Court, fages, learned in Court precedents, gravely shook their heads, and said, it was impossible—yes, impossible—that; a Judge eould sit without a wig The very, idea horri* fied them. The gown was altogether ignored in the discussion, the solo importance being. attache I to the wig. A gentleman in Court,; fertile in expedient, nude the bold and original: suggestion that one of the barristers should lend Hi°s Honor his wig. The proposal was, however, indignantly scouted, on the ground that it might prejudice the Court, ,aad the purity of justice could not, on any consideration, be tampers 1 with. So the proposal that the suggestion bo made to get the loin of a barristor's wig was abandoned. And the Court sitj.not-. withstanding the fact of momentous importance that no wig or gown was fortiiomiog. His Honor gave judgment without wig or gown, and looked much more vonerable than if he wore a wig. The lawyers thomselves, •ut of respeot for the Court, did not wear. wig 3 or.gowns.

A bigoted Richmond vicar has created a pain« ful soandal by causing a wall to be erected iu a cemetery, betwesn tin Conformist and Nonoon-. formist portions. During one night 280. feet w«ire torn down, which, in spite of all remom str.vuces he insists on luving rebuilt. Kwl Russell has published ft lot^c dis*uDro\ing ; of , ' : ;•' -'V.'-';