CASUALTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10901, 7 September 1897, Page 2

CASUALTIES.

I i (Pee United Pbess Association.) . !.'.. ' Auckland, September S. :.-.■ On Saturday night Mr Thorpe, of Ellerslie, while .-removing an Aldertey bull, was gored under the chin,.neck, and fßce> Threa of Ms . ribs were broken. Mrs Thorpe drove the bull away with a clothes prop. Thorpe's condition '. is serious. The bull was sho'j. '■ Charles Sinclair, while unloading timber from' the Wfißtralia, was severely injured on the head ( and shoulders. The slings gava way and the timber fell on him. He isfci married man with" a large family. • v Palmbeston Nohth, September 6. At an ioquest on a girl named Edith Carter, who died on Saturday while undergoing a dental operation, the jury returned.a verdict • "That the deceased died from paralysis of the heart, caused by inhalation of methyline." :

The Wyndham Farmer reports tnat an extra* ordinary qua accident befell Mr B. W. Ballautyne, cheesemaker at Glenbam Dairy Factory, last Friday evening. Ifc appears that the barrel of a Remington rifle he owned had, got a .ballet stuok in it, and by way of getting rid of it he put some powder into the cartridge chamber, and then placed the, gun over the kitchen fire—; in order to have the bullet dislodged by theforce. of the, explosion. Having done: that, Ballaa-' tyne went out of the house, and was talking to Mr J. A. Greer, of Wyndham, and while thus engaged they heard not one but two distinct discharges 'from the Bsmiijgfcon.. On returning to the house,, Ballantyne seized hold oE tha gun by the muzzle, 'but as may bs imagined it was so hot that he quickly left the stock end fall on the floor, and no sooner had he done co tban a third discharge occurred, when a bullet was shot into the paim of the hand with which he'was still grasping the nwzz'e. Bsllantyne rodß into Wyrsdhani for surgical advice, the pain in the wound meanwhile being considerably aggravated owing to the hot bullet burning the fle9h. Dr» Stcckwell and Rogers were culled in, and advised tha patient to be chloroformed and submit to an operation, but he declined to undergo the treatment, and returned home with the pellet still embedded in his hand.; Oar contemporary adds that Ballantyae recently was pig-shooting with the gun, when three or probably mors bullets had somehow or,other got lodged in tho barrel; henca his foolhardy experiment and its painful sequel on Friday last. A: A man named Frederick Muhlenbruck, a miner residing in the Stafford district, 67 yesra of age, left the Westland Hospital one morning recently, and later on his body was found in a little pool at the bottom of a steep gully at the back of the hospital. Thero is little doubt that it was a determined case of suicide. .The poor old fellow had evidently gone down the gully, carefully laid his crutches by a tree, and deli« berately put his face in the pool, which was not a foot deep—so shallow, in fact, that the back o£ his head wasout of the water. At the inquest it was elicited that deceased wassufferipg from a disease in the legs, but was improving, and would probably have been well enough to leave tha hospital ia abont three weeks. He was of a, very despondent temperament, though there was nothing to indicate a predisposition to selfdestruction. He wasoamiag but little at his claim, and was in very poor circumstances. Au engine-driver named William Sinclair, who is W yeora cf age and resides at Lawrence, mot with a painful accident yesterday. He was proceeding as a passenger by train from Milton to Lawrence when ia some manner ha slipped ofi between the engine and a carriage, and the latter passed over his left^arm, just above the elbow .joint. The sufferer was brought to town acd admitted last evening ia tho "hospital, where the injured limb was i amputated above the elbow. ■ Mr F. B. Chapman, the well-known member of the bar, had the misfortune on Sunday to ! sustain an accident, whioh will prevent him ' from leaving his. house for some days. , He attempted to get off tho St. Clair .car while it was in motion, bub missed his footing and fell under the car, with the result that a wheel passed over one of his feßt, crushing the taBS badly, but fortunately without breaking any bones. : "