CASUALTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12565, 20 January 1903, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

(Pes United Press Association) PAIiIATUA, January 19. The three-year-old son of Sydney Weatherley, of Hakanui, foil into a bucket of scalding milk. lie tlied from the injuries received.

INTERCARGILL, January 19. Two men named Joseph Rilven and Alfred E. Daplyn were drowned at Fort-rose on Sunday evening. They wont out in a flatty for a row. Tho 'boat swamped on tho bar, Two others named Leech and C. M'Kenzie, who were in tho boat, were rescued in an exhausted condition. Duplyn was a married man, and leaves ti willow and two children. Haven was a single man.

Tho daughter of T. B, M'Carthy, of Eiverton, aged 21 months, was run over by a ten on Saturday night and fatally injured.

An elderly man named Thos. Faulkner was knocked down by tlie horses attached to a tramear asoonding Princes street yesterday. Owing to the' alertness of tho driver, Thcfi, Warren, who quickly pulled lip his horses, Fsulkner escaped with a shaking and thc> loss cf some «!iin übout the wrists. A Tunpcka West correspondent writes that the death of a ploughman named O'Brien reported in yesterday's issue was startlingly sudden. O'Brien, who was ploughing for Meisr? James Smith and Sons, informed tho mana.gor that afl he did not feel well he would like to see a doctor. The manager told him to unyoke his team and he would drive him to sec a medical man, but before he could comply with the request O'Brien fell down and died in the manager's arms,