CASUALTIES

Evening Star, Issue 12647, 30 October 1905, Page 4

CASUALTIES

A Wellington message states that Charles M’Donald, a carpenter by trade and unmarried, was drowned at Island Bay yesterday. He and three other men named Jones, Samuel M‘Millan, and Alfred Lason had gone out fishing in a wmal! boat early on the morning to a little island in the bay, and on the return journey their boat swamped, there being a heavy swell on, and then capsized. McMillan and Lason clung to the boat, and Jones and M'Donald, who were brothers-in-law, started to swim towards a yacht moored close by. Jones reached the yacht, but M'Donald, becoming exhausted or being seized with cramp, «a.i>lr and was drowned. The body has not yet been recovered. Robert M'Pberson, aged nine, was admitted to the Hospital yesterday afternoon. The boy accompanied has father, who went to attend to the engines at the Dunedin Foundry. While playing round the 'ad got his hand into the cogs of a punching machine, with the result that his fingers were badly crushed. One of them had to be amputated. John Blackwood, aged sixty-four, who resided with his son in Union street, went to his bed last night in his usual health and was found lying dead on the floor of his bedroom early this morning. The floor was covered with blood. Death is supposed to have been due to hemorrhage of the lungs.

William M'Leod, picked up at Auckland with his throat cut, was a fireman on the Haupiri ; aged twenty-seven. He belonged to Dunedin. Early last month be fell down the ship’s hold, and was admitted to the hospital,. complaining of internal pains. Ho left a week ago. He is alleged to have been addicted to the chlorodyne drug habit. This and the seriousness of the wound render his condition precarious. John Davis, a resident of Kaiapoi and Eyreton for the past forty years, died at his residence at Kaiapoi on Saturday, after a week’s illness.