----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Weller To: Elaine Mattsen Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 11:16 AM Subject: HB Herald, Tues. July 21st 1891 SHIPPING NEWS: Arrival - July 20 - Lily, schooner, Captain BLOOM, from Timaru. Departures - July 20 - Spray, schooner, Captain WILLIAMS, for Auckland. July 20 - Queen of the South, s.s., for Wellington. An inquest was held yesterday at the residence of Mr WALLACE, Willowbank, Petane, on the body of James NICHOLL, whose death by falling over a cliff on Saturday was reported in our yesterday's issue. Mr F. SUTTON, J.P., sat as coroner, and Mr STEVENS was foreman of the jury.....The jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased was accidentally killed by falling over a cliff on the 18th of July. At the R.M. Court yesterday, before Mr TURNBULL, R.M., Cornelius COLLINS was fined 5s and costs for drunkenness. George KITT, for allowing a horse to stray on the railway line, was fined 5s and costs. Emily BARRETT, charged with assaulting a child named FOSTER, was fined 5s and costs. A Maori named Matenga PEKA PEKA, who was represented by Mr CRESSWELL, pleaded guilty to insulting behavior in Hastings- street on Saturday, and was fined 10s, the costs and expenses amounting to 1 pound 8s. A peculiar case was heard at the R.M. Court yesterday when John D. M'KAY pleaded guilty to three separate charges of affixing to newspapers for postal delivery stamps that had been previously used......Possibly the offences were committed more in ignorance of the law than the intention to defraud. Mr TURNBULL, R.M., imposed a fine of 10s in the first case and 2s 6d in each of the other two, the costs and expenses amounting to 2 pounds 2s. Our Danevirke correspondent writes as follows under yesterday's date:- The townspeople were startled yesterday by the sight of a man riding at full speed on a horse without a saddle in the direction of the surgery, and in a few minutes Dr. WILKINSON was seen hurrying off in the direction of Tahoraiti - whence the rider had come - accompanied by Mr POPPLEWELL. It soon became known that a fatal accident had occurred, and when the doctor rode back it was found that a man named David SMITH had accidentally shot one of his sons through the head.....He is an honest, hard-working man, and all deeply sympathise with him in his loss. An inquest was held at Tahoraite to-day before Mr S. JOHNSON, coroner, when the jury returned a verdict of "Homicide by misadventure," adding as a rider their opinion that no neglect or blame was attributable to the father of deceased.