CASUALTIES.

Evening Star, Volume 12869, Issue 12869, 19 July 1906, Page 4

CASUALTIES.

The sergeant of police at Lawrence wired Inspector O'Brien this morning that Lizzie Paterson, aged twenty-one years, who was on a visit from South Dunedin, and'who was missed by her Lawrence friends on Tuesday evening last, was found dead this morning in tho cemetery, with a bottle beside her naif full of carbolic acid. Deceased's mind had been unhinged for more than a year. An inquest will be held. Our Lawrence correspondent understands that Miss Paterson was employed for many years as dressmaker with Brown, Ewing, and Co. A sad accident took place at Karamea," near Westport, yesterday afternoon. Four men—Captain of the scow Rangi, Franson (mate), and Seamen Robert Wilson and Jonas Hunter—were drowned. They were out sounding on the bar, when a breaker caught and swamped their craft, and they shortly; afterwards disappeared from view. Hunter was the son of a wellknown engineer, a resident of Karamea. Seversen leaves a widow and family in Wellington. The four men were employed for tho time being under the Public Works Department. Mr Thompson, surveyor had been engaged some time surveying in' pursuance of a scheme of harbor inprovement. Ho had practically finished his work, and returned to Westport on Tuesday, when a telegram arrived from Wellington requiring bar soundings to be taken. Mr Thompson was advised at Westport to obtain a ship's boat.and sailormen for the job. He went back to Karamea yesterday morning, and employed the, scow Rangi's men and Hunter, wi» had previously, worked for him. The boat was swamped on the bar, and the four men were drowned. An old age jtausioner named Caldwell dropped dead in the Christchurch Hospital last night. WANGANUI, July 19. Frederick Dobson, aged four years, the son of a ganger on the railway, was drowned in a stream, yesterday. The little one was playing with another child at noon, and being missed shortly after, a 6earch was made, and the body was found this morning half a mile from the scene of the accident.