CASUALTIES.

Evening Star, Issue 11452, 21 January 1901, Page 1

CASUALTIES.

On Saturday evening, as Mr MacLaurin, station-holder, near Gisborne, was driving homewards along the Waimata River bank he met a sulky containing Misses Laird and Wyllie, hospital nurses, and a child patient. The horse attached to the sulky took frieh't, and made the other horse do likewise. The horses and vehicles rolled over the steep embankment, and the occupants were tumbled about and much shaken. Of those in Mr MacLanrin's buggy. Miss M'Kay, a younjj lady visitor, who was returning to Auckland on Sunday, had her face badly cut nnd her right elbow injured. Miss Scott fell into the river, and had her head badly cut. Miss Bright, hospital nurse, was severely shaken, as werethe occupants of the other buggy. Miss Wyllie, as she roiled over and over down the embankment, pluckily kept the child, named Guriick, clasped in her arms. The child's leg was badly cut. It is a miracle that no one was lulled.

A narrow escape from what might have proved a fatal accident took place on Mount Egmont on the 13th inst., when two younf men scaled the mountain to within a hundred yards of the top before they realised the danger they were in. It was jvell on in the afternoon, and the snow was hardening fast, and the mountain was enshrouded by a dense mist. One of them was about thirty yards in advance of the other, when the snow gave way from under his feet, "and would have carried him to the bottom had his mate, who stood on a projecting rock not managed to grasp his outstretched hand and save him from his doom. Their descent was made with the utmost difficulty, as the mountain is not fit for dhnbin"- vet'—' Eir. Mont Post.' . ° J *>