CASUALTIES.

Evening Star, Issue 11195, 21 March 1900, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

A serious accident occurred at the Waihi (Auckland) mine. Andrew Swan and Harry Hicks, miners, were coming off^their shift, and, when the engine bucket was coming up tho shaft to the adit level, by some means they fell out. and dropped 45ft to the bottom. Hicks was unconscious, and was badly bruised. Swan had one rib broken, which is supposed to have penetrated his lungs.

The wife of Moren, a butcher, of Huntly, committed suicide, by cutting her throat; She had been suffering from ill-health for some time.

At tho inquest on H. Conaghan. killed hv n fall of earth in a ballast pit at Wbangarri, verdict was returned of “Accidental death.” An inquest was held a.t Lyttelton yeste”day regarding the death of' a man Vam.-M George Webster, who died in gaol while under commitment for medical treatment on account of drunkenness at Ashburton. T’w jury returned a verdict that dccca-ivl died from disease of the kidneys, accelerated bv excessive drinking, and added the following rider:—“We strongly recommend that ihe Government be asked to withhold their support from public hospitals which have not made provision to receive men suffering from ihe effects of alcohol. Wc recommend that all persons remanded for medical treatment should be examined thoroughly by a doctor before lieing sent on a. journey.”

A lad named Gainsford is in the Christchurch Hospital in a critical condition as the result of a revolver wound in the stomach. He, with other boys, was playing with a revolver on Sunday, when it exploded, and the bullet lodged in Gaimiford’s stomach.' ”