CASUALTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10598, 16 September 1896, Page 2

CASUALTIES.

(Fee United Press Association.)

Auckland, September 15,

The body of M'Leod, the seamiri on the barque Himalaya drowned on Saturday night, was found today.

John Balme, aged 8, son of MrGeorgs Bahne, was thrown from his horse. . His foot caught in tha stirrup and the hone bolted, the boy being killed on the spot.

Building, September 15,

C, Catr, auctioneer, JFeildiog, was thrown from » sulky while proceeding to his Birmingham sale this morning. One of his legs was broken ia the fall. The horse shied at a passing dray. Wellington, September 15.

At the inqnest touching the death of Fredarick Hankins, compositor, on Saturday night, a verdict was returned that death was duo to paralysis of tha heart. CHitisrcHuncii, September 15.

The skeleton of a man was found near Mandeville yesterday by some men who were cutting gorse hedges. Nothing was found leading to identification, and no one has been missed from the neighbourhood.

A sad fatality occurred on Luke'ffakatipu on Monday. Two young men, named respectively George Olson and George Upndalo, left Queenetown in the morning for Afton Beach, where both were drowned, owing, it is supposed, to the capsizing of their boat, Upsdale's body only has been recovered. Olsen was 21 and Upsdale 17 years of age.

An icqueafc into the death of the lats John M'Lindross was held yesterday morning before Mr E. H. Carew and a jury of six, of whom Mr James Barolsy was chonen foreman. Evidence waa given that the deceased gentleman was iv fairly good health of late, but hud suffered from periodical fainting fits. Of late ho had been engaged by Mr William Bridgman, leather merchant. Dr Gordon Mscdonald gava evidence that d^ath was due to a defect of the heart, and a verdict to that effect was returner).

Our Hyde correspondent writes: —An inquest was held ou 12Mi inst. on the body of a man namei Walter Clark, who lost his life whilst trying to crosK the Taieri River in a boat *>t a point near the Hyde railway tunnel. Mr J. J. Rimsay. J P., acted as coroner, and Mr Thomas Low was chosen foreman of the jury. Tqb evideuca was to the effect that the mau was a rabbiter, eomewbat over 40 years of ag«, a native of Brighton, Eagland, and th&t his letters cam* to t.ho care of Mr Orossau, baker, Owoka. He had been rabbiting, and was living with' a miner (Joseph Whitehouse) at the diggings on Mr C. 6. Trotter's ground. When he lost hi* life he was attempting to cross for tucker. Constable O'Brien gave evidence as to the unsatisfactory state of the boats there, and the jury returned a verdict that death arose from accidental drowning, attaching no blame to anyone, and adding a rider that the attention of the authorities be drawn to the necessity for providing a chair or some other safe means for crossing at this place. The miners there some time ago petitioned the Maniototo and Waihemo Counties to provide a chair.