CASUALTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10305, 12 March 1895, Page 2

CASUALTIES.

(Pee United P.bess Association.) ■ ■ ■ < Auckland, March 11. Edward Lennon, t> settler at Hotukarawa, was found dead, hanging by the neck to a h&t peg in the passage of the Kohnkoha Hotel. Deceased was a printer by trade, and a single man, but his sister lived with him on his selection. He had been employed on the Northern Luminary, Kawakawai •■

.:„ Napieb, Mardh-.11. The excursion '<Sf the,' fort AhuKH School childrba on Sitturd'&y waii somewhat marred by a mishap which took place when the train lift Poukawa station. A boy named Bristow, aged 18, subject to epileptic fits, standing on the platform, fell off. The tram was stopped at the next station, and a trolly sent back for the boy, ■ who had his collarbone broken and his head bodly bruised. Ho had a nrraculous escape fccim being killed. The railway authorities are entirely blameless, as the accident was purely the result of the boy's infirmity. Prompt action was takoa by the department for the speedy relief of Bristowi

A Cromwell correspondent telegraphs that Dr Morris, of Cromwell, was thrown from his gig on Sunday coming down the Bannockburn Hill, and had his fight arm fractured, his head badly cut, and otherwise bruised. He was attended to by Dr M'Ad&m, and is progressing favourably.