CASUALTIES.

Evening Star, Issue 11633, 21 August 1901, Page 4

CASUALTIES.

A Gisborne message states that a young uan named W. Blaiu is believed to have been drowned in a watcrhole on Julius Caesar's property. He was riding after cattle, when he suddenly disappeared, his emerging riderless from a creek. Blain's 'body has not yet been found. Mrs Watkins, -wife of a contractor, was burned to Heath at Beaufort (Vic.) shortly after midnight on August 3 owing to an outbreak of fire in her residence. Her son, fourteen years old, after saving his two younger sisters and his brother, ineffectually tried to rescue his mother, and was at last driven back by the hot flames. A neighbor also went into the burning house, but was compelled to retreat with his clothing ablaze.

Respecting the sudden seizure of Peter Dunn while driving a locomotive on Saturday into Invercargill, the doctor is of opinion that it was caused by influenza “flying to the head,” and that insensibility was produced by a blow on the head when Dunn fell. Dunn is progressing favorably. John Nicholas Rose, of North Invercargill, who has been despondent for some time, got hold of a dynamite cap and fuse, went into the bush, put the cap in his mouth, and lit the fuse; but his courage seemed to have failed, as the only injury sustained was from the fuse, which burned his chin.