CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 13938, 11 January 1911, Page 10

CASUALTIES.

THE TEMUKA TRAGEDY. The adjourned inquest on the bpdies of John McAuliffe and Wm. Snell, the victims of the Temuka railway fatality, was held yesterday, before Mr V. G. Day. S.M. (Coroner), and a jury. Mr J. " \Y. White represented the Railway Department, and Mr L. Tripp appeared on behalf of the Ocean Accident Insurance Company. Evidence was given by Thos. Guunion. A. E. Thomas, and G. E. McEvoy, who witnessed the accident, and by G. P. Wallace and E. Adams, the fireman and driver of the train, James Hislop, the stationmaster, and Jus. Heron. After a short retirement the jury brought in a verdict that the deceased were accidentally killed by the express, and that no blame whatever was attachable to anyone. The following rider was added :— "That the jury consider this crossing to be a very dangerous one on account of a large grain shed and a plantation of trees obscuring a view of the line, and that the Department should take some steps to safeguard the public as soon as possible."

The man Ryan, who was severely injured in an accident on the steamer Wnotton, had not yet recovered consciousness at an early hour this morning. Otherwise his condition was about the same.

(I'RESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) WELLINGTON, January 10. Leonard Shaw, a labourer, aged 23 years, who accidentally shot himself in -the.foot while rabbit shooting, at Plimmenton. on Christinas Day, died in the hospital to-day. The body of Robert T. Styles, a wellknown gttard on the Wellington-Auck-land express section of railways, was found in the Bolton street Cemetery about three o'clock this afternoon. A loaded seven chamber revolver, one chamber of which had been discharged, was lying near the man's right hand. Styles, who was between 40 and 50 years of age, was a married man, with one child.- No cause can bo assigned for the deed. The Coroner will hold an inquest tomorrow concerning the death of a newly born child. The mother, who arrived from England last November, was a domestic servant employed sit Newtown. The child was found dead in her bedroom yesterday. DUNEDIN, January 10. Advice was received to-day by the secretary of the Rise and Shine Dredging Company, of the sudden death of George Todd, tho diver who was working in connection with the Company's No. 2 dredge, which sank last week. It appears that Todd was making an inspection of the dredge, and,after he had been down a considerable time, those on the surface -realised that he gave no answer to their signals. He was then pulled up, but was found to bo dead. GORE, January 10. At Wnikaia, on Sunday afternoon, a shearer named Maurice Constant Schlonback was drowned while bathing in the Wnikaia river, opposite Argyle station. He got beyond his depth and was swept into a hole by the under current.