CASUALTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12601, 3 March 1903, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

£Pm Uotted Prass Association)' ROXBURGH, Marcli ,2. A drowning fatality occurred hero last night, Daniel Woatherall, aged about 22 years, being tho victim. la company , - with five youths he went for a batho iu a pond created by tho Teviot dredge. There was no current, and tho water woe about 7ft or Bft deep and about 20ft across. The. deceased jumped in, and when half way over threw ' up his hands and *ank, apparently .taking cramp, John Grant, who tried to savo him, was nearly drowned, as deceased caiiglt6 him round the neck and pulled him under, / but ho eventually managed to ..get free, and was lifted out. None of/hose present being able to dive they could render no assistance after Weathorall sank. A crowd of persona were soon on the snot, but three hours elapsed before the- body was recovered with tho drags. Weatherall leaves a wife and one child, for whom the deepest sympathy is felt. An inquest was to be held thie afternoon. Deceased was a son of' Mrs Weatherall, storekeeper, Lawrence. AUCKLAND, March 2. George Edwin Williams (14), a son of Mr AYilliiinß, painter, was drowned while bathing at Korthcoto in company with another lad, Abercrombie, who secured resist- • aiice promptly, but before he arrived Williams had disappeared. At the inquest a verdict of "Accidentally drowned" was returned. . y "* GI3BORNE, March 2. : Miss Alice Rcdwrtril, a muoh-estcemed lady of Gisborne, aged 21 years, died, at the hospital at 10 o'clock to-night from the effects of a bicycle accident. Slio was riding along tho -Main street, and iu trying to avoid a horse she lost control of the bicycle and fell heavily on her head. She eustained. severe concussion, not regaining consciousness. No blame is attributed to the horseman. / WANGANUI, March 2. James Daloy shot himself at Denlair, near Fordoll, this morning. An inquest will be held to-morrow. 'INVERCAHGIIX, March 2. At tho inquest on tiie body of Henry Smith, engine-driver, killed in a flaxmill at *?aimahal;a, it was shown that whilo loosely clothed deceased was shifting a bolt over on a pulley when the shaft key caught his clothiug and ho was whirled round, his feet striking the joist with euch force as to displace it. He was tliron-n from tho shaft stripped to the socks, and died soon after. A verdict was returned of accidental death. Deceased had been warned about tho loose ■ clothing ho was wearing. I/ast night George Smith, a horse-trainer, well known in Dunedin, was going home with a friend along the Bay View road, when ho flipped off the pavement and fractured his ankle joint. Ho was taken to the- ' Hospital, where he is being tended. The jockey Mathie, who was injured in the Hurdle Race at Winsahii on Saturday,' at an early hour this morning showed signs of improvement, but had not yet recovered consciousness.