CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11876, 25 April 1904, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

Edward Ericsson, an employee of Messrs ; Williams, Stephens, and Co., was engaged in loading upon a truck at the railway wards on Friday, when, by some misadventure, the truck moved, and he was squeezed between the buffer and a post. When he was examined at the Hospital it was found that his injuries consisted of bruises only. An inquest was held at the Morgue on Saturday, before Mr W..R. Haeelden, coroner, touching the death of the. infant child of Thomas" Mason Abbott. The evidence showed that the child was quite | healthy, until it. was found en Thursday ! morning lying high up on the pillow, limp ; and rather cold. It was given 57 warm bath, and afterwards a few drops of gin in water, and a linseed poultice was applied. The child seemed to get better, but died before Dr. Downes, who had been called in an hour before, arrived. The parents felt certain that the child was not overlain. The Coroner stated that Dr. Dcwnes. who had not- been summoned as a witness, was unable to state the cause of death, though it was suggested that the child might have lain face downwards. Isabella Dickinson, an ex-nurse, who had been called in, said that there were symptoms resembling bronchial trouble. The inquest was adjourned till 2.15 to-day, to allow of a post mortem examination being l-eld. About noon on Tuesday last, when off Pompey's Pillar, near Long Bay, Banks' Peninsula, a fishing boat capsized in the heavy south-west gale which was blowing. A man named Hauntze, who was in the boat at the time of the capsize, clung-to the boat and was picked up by another fisherman named Peter Haglund. who was close by when the accident.occurred. Haglund landed the rescued man at Duvaui chelle's Bay, but Hauntze's boat drifted out to sea. Frank Deberley, a young man employed at Gkntui, near Oxford, went out on Friday night to shoot moreporks. In pulling the revolver out of his pocket the charge, exploded, and the bullet entered the thigh of his right leg, and lodged in the knee. Constable Leahy was sent for, and the roan was removed on a stretcher to Oxford at six o'clock on Saturday morning, and was brought on by the first train to the hospital. The local police authorities received a telegram from Oamaru on Friday describing tho body of a woman found on the beach there that day. It stated that the woman was between 50 and 55 years of age, short and stoutish built, with dark hair, turning grey. She was dressed in a dark skirt, holland blouse, trimmed, with red, and a black three-quarter jacket, with pearl buttons. She had a spotted handkerchief, with the letters "M.G." worked in red silk thread. A piece of an account, with the words—"to Mrs Carrick"—on it was found on the body. The top of 'the little finger of the left hand is missing. She was not known in Oamaru. Enquiries were made by the local police at Tai Tapu, a Mrs Cairns having disappeared from that district, but it was found that her description did not tally with that of the body found at Oamaru. The body was yesterday identified at Oamaru as that of Christina Carrick, of Dunedin, who is supposed to have journeyed from Dunedin by the night train on Wednesday. (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAM.) WHANGAREI, April 23. Iwira, the oldest native chief at Whangarei, was kicked by a horse at Mangakahia, and has since died. He is reported to have been over a hundred years old. MASTERTON, April 24. Matthew Templeton, a single man, aged 55, was found dead in a creek at the back of his residence in Nursery road this morning. The appearances point to suicide. A man named Haftka, who was slashing for deceased found a tin containing codlin moth specific (poison), and a jug containing some of the.poison in a fowlhouse. Deceased had evidently taken some of the poison, and then went to the creek. Marks were found on the bank of the creek where deceased had been rolling. AUCKLAND, April 24. William Tucker, aged 69, diedunder chloroform at his residence, at Ellerslie, during an operation. NAPIER, April 24. . An elderly man named Alexander Dunn hanged himself at Havelock North to-day. He had been ailing for some time, having only recently been an inmate of the Napier Hospital.