CASUALTIES

Evening Star, Issue 13002, 22 December 1906, Page 10

CASUALTIES

What might have been a serious accident happened vesterday afternoon on the Main South rnad. Mr and Mrs M'Cleary, of Saddle Hill, were driving homewards from Dunedin when the horse, irritated by a plank which had slipped forward on the eart, became violent, and kicked the front of the, cart to pieces. The animal then rushed into the bank at the side of the road, thereby upsetting the cart, and throwing its two occupants heavily to the ground. Mr M'Cleary landed on his head and shoulders and was rendered unconscious, but his wife was uninjured by the fall. It was some lime before Mr M'Cleary came to. but eventually, with the help of the neighbors, both he and Mrs -M'Cleary were piloted safely home. As the result of the explosion of a spirit lamp vesterday. Mr James Stewart, residing at East Taieri. sustained a number of bums on the face and head. He was brought in to the Dunedin Hospital for treatment, hut his injuries are not of an alarming nature.

James Ferguson, a young man. was killed by a fa'll of earth at Clarendon at 5.30 yesterday afternoon. Deceased was working for his father, and was engaged on a "contract for the Jirncc County Council. About three tons of earth fell on the unfortunate young man. who was thirty years of age. and lived with his parents at- Milton. James Ferguson, about thirty yean of age. was killed by a fall of earth (about three tons) at Clarendon, at 3.50 p.m. yesterday. Deceased was working for his father, who was engaged upon a contract for the Bruce County Council. The contract was almost completed when the accident occurred. 'Hie deceased lived with his parents at Milton. The infant child of Mr Stanley Brown, of Maingaiti, near Te Aroha. was drowned in a well on Thursday. Charles Mabey, aged sixty-tb-ree years, who is alleged to have born assaulted at Masterton by a Maori named Bopoama last Saturday, died last evening. The doctor says that, death was due to laceration of tho brain and inflammation of the lung*. Rita Black, aged sixteen months, fell into a tub of water at Christchurch yes ter dav afternoon, and w as drowned. FEILDING, December 22. Henry Goodie, an old identity of the Colyton district, aged sixty-two, dropped dead at 7.20 this morning on the main road near his store. The doctor certified that death was due to heart disease.