CASUALTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10621, 13 October 1896, Page 2

CASUALTIES.

(__r United Press Association. ) Auckland, October 12. Jane Wakefield, a widow, committed suicide on Saturday afternoon by taking " Rough on Rats." Deceased, who had been drinking, sent a child to a chemist's for something for rats, and received two packets. Deceased died an hour after admission to the hospital. Oliver J. Cromwell, aged 17, fell over the Chelsea wharf on Saturday night and was drowned. Chbistchuech, October 12. The jury at an inquest held at the Sunnystdo Asylum to-day passed the following rider :— "That at any time when a patient escapes tbe policß should at mice ba notified, and j notification should also be given to the daily newspapers." '

A child four months old, named Catherine Mary Stringer, was found dead in bed at Flag Swamp yesterday morning. The child w»s sleeping in its mother's arms, and is supposed to have been accidentally overlaiu. George M'Gaw, a groom, was severelr bunted at Invercargill yesterday morning while sat .us the horses iv Mr Yule's stables which w_e destroyed by fire. He jumped out ol Wd «Jil went to the burning buildiug without -ho*» iui. He saved one horse, but another v-ntn-b.a twe was burnt. Two vehicles—one beltu _—ig to Dr Fullarton—and the usual cautsnts of a stable were also lost. The building was i-Stired for £110 with the Northern Assurance Company ; the contents are also insured, but for what amount was not ascertainable.