CASUALTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11808, 10 August 1900, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

(Per United Pbess Association.)

AUCKLAND, August S.

Further particulars of the Opotiki casualty show that the clothes worn by a Maori woman were found on the bank of the river, indicating that she- had plunged in and attempx.? to rescue some of the children, but was drowned. HOKITIKA, August 9.

Te Aika Skerrett. a Maori boy, aged 10, was killed in Lincoln's Bush this afternoon by a log rolling on him from off its skids. ■ , .

The West Coast Times states that Mr A. C. Broad, of this city, met with a painful;accident at Dillmanstown on Friday. In company with two dther gentlemen, Mr Broad was going down a tramway to the sludge channel when his foot slipped and he fell' heavily on his chest, breaking- a rib and severely bruising himself. The sufferer is progressing favourably, but is in considerable pain.

The Taranaki Herald'reports that Mr G. Wells met with an accident while driving home to Okato on July 29, which terminated fatally last Saturday. Mr Wells took an epileptic fit and fell forward from the sulky, hitting the dashboard severely with his forehaad. The jerk appears to have thrown him into the bottom of. the trap, so that his head extended between the spokes of the near wheel about 3in The horeo apparently started, as the hat was found over half a mile from the place where the trap was found, the intervening portion of the roacl being strewn, with, blood and cortions of-flealk