CASUALTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10562, 8 January 1896, Page 3

CASUALTIES.

(Pbr United Press Assoc atiov )

AuckriND, Januarj 7 t During the pasßsge of the Rotomahnna to Auckland from Sj dney John M L°od, bedroum Steward, jumped overboard on Snndyy ifter noon and was drowned It is behevpd fb.it hf committed suicide L febuoya were thror i, and d fcoat launched in charge or tto th rd officer, but nothing wsa spen of MM.eocl Ihe deceased was 25 yean, ol age, single, end ft 'native of Glasgow He jotj no rclstu sin the colony The log booic o£ the Rolomahaua. shows tr.au tbe last man to fee Jobu M Leod, the bedroom steward, wa6 Jarnts Sttwrt1-, the cook, who, in passing tbe sfcarbo rtl recess, saw TiT sitting on the rail M'Leod called out, " Gocd bye, Jimmie," -snd disappeared b-iUtTarrk ok rboaid Ihe alarm was at once given, lifebuoys thrown over the side, the eng lies ofcopp i i d reversed, lookouts sent iloft, ana a boa 1" sent away Tho buoys were p c>"& up but nothing wiß eeeri of tLo man George Moore, of thf Auckland Fire Br gadc, fell off some staging while working at the ship Wolverine in the Calliope DocV He fell to the bottom of the dock, some 2011 h ad foic most) receiving severe injan°s to the ht ■ul and face He 10 in a precarious condition CllßlsrcntljiCH, Januaiy 7 At Prebbleton Hsc night Emily IVillian;i>, aged 60, went out to look for eggs in n gorso hedge, and hter on vis found lying dead in a ditch. William Donnelly, wiio wis lun o\tr by a cab a we°k ago, died iv thn hospital At the inquest the verdict was "Died fro-n n juries received by being run over by t ceb, but th"re is no evidence to shox who«r c-vb ifc nn ' A young man named James W tt who worked on Mr Gregg's chicory farm it Bal clutha, was admitted into the hospital la>-t night Buffering from a fracture of tbe ngbl thigli, caused by a tree, whiih was blown oown Ly B gale of wind on the nrevioun f'av, filling ou it, as he was on bis vay home from the farm Mr Dnuon Bl'lntush, warehoupemAu, me 1 with a nasty acoiceut on Monday eveni jg In jumping off the Momington tramcir h( Btumbled and fell so usavily tbi.t h<; was rendered uncon»cious temporarily and friic. urei one of his cheek bones I list aid was. rcbdere 1 by Mr Mearns, md Mr M'ltitrsh was ttej taken to his Louce, where l)r Brown attendei to him Ihe tramway employee^ wer^1 in m way to blame, as no request w«s made to EtJD I the car. Michael Coorj, an A s>riiin, iboufc 42 jeari or age, has been mis^iug from his horn" m , Walkei street siuto 4 o clock on Sunday afb>r noon He is of mu'mm buila, vith a glosi bye ahd daik moustache, and wes dreusetl in I dark clothea and a brown hat He wis in v sickly, despondent s fate of mind when las I seen, and it io fiired th»t ho may have com mitted suicide Steven Ca auagh, 81 years of age, a labonrei residing at Pva) Bnob, Southland, dropped dead at his bedside on Monday morning having; jußt got out of bed, as was bis custom, to msfeti tis wife a cdp of tea. I