ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 10747, 6 October 1898, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

John Hart, chief steward of the Rose Casey, Blipped when leaving the vessel at Auckland, and fell between the breastwork and the steamer, striking his head. He was rendered unconscious, and died from the effects of the iojury. He was a married man, forty-five years of atje. A human skeleton was found at Druuken Bay, Rangitoto. It is believed to have been there for years. There is no clue to itß Identity. Patrick Reid, an old Waipori miner, waß found dead in his hut yesterday. Death had apparently occurred some days before. A young man named William Sutherland reported to the police at Port Chalmers to-day that while going along the beach outside the Heads this morning he saw at high-water mark the body of a man partly covered with sand. It was lying on the west side of the "breakwater. Sergeant Geerin despatched a constable to secure the body, which will be brought np to the Port. A Hawera telegram states thit an inquest on tlje body of Wtn. M'Cormick, who was found in a convulsive state on a farm, resulted in a verdict of " Death from apoplexy." Mr John White, managing director of the Round Hill Mining Company, whose property is about four miles from Colac Bay, beyond Riverton, received the following message to-day from the secretary, Mr A. Reynolds :—" Robert Stewart was drowned in No. 2 paddock at 1 a.m. His body waß found blocking the mouth of the elevator, one arm being torn off by the jet. His mate did not go to work with him this morning." We understand that the deceased, in common with all the other employes of the company, had his life insured against accident. DANEVIRKE, October 6. William Wittle, middle-aged, was engaged bush-felling at Ngapaeruru, when a dry tree fell on him, breaking his hip and causing internal injuries, from which he died.