CASUALTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13207, 14 February 1905, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

(Per United Phess Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, Fob. 13. John Ellis (25) employed at Gregg and Green's flaxmill, Aorangi, was drowned in tho Orona River on Saturday afternoon. The deceased sank while swimming across tho river, and though his body was rocovored in a few minutes all attempts' at resuscitation wero fruitless. A double drowning fatality occurred at Foxton on Saturday afternoon. Ed. Staff (22) and his nephew, Oscar Honore (14), losing tlioir lives while swimming in the Jlanawatu. The fatality was not. known of till the young men failed to go homo, and then search resulted in their clothes being found on tho river bank. Both bodies were subsequently recovered. ASHBURTON, February 13. This morning the daughter of Charles Bennett, aged one? year and eight months, whilo playing in her father's yard, was inn over by the wheel of a. threshing combine drawn by a moving traction engine, »nd killed instantaneously, the wheel passing over the girl's head. A verdict of "Accidental death " was returned at the inquost. A man named Emmanuel Turner, who lived by himself in a two-roomed cottage in Bath street, South Olincdin, was found dead in his house at 7 o'clock yesterday morning. Deceased was a singlo man, 80 yeara of ago, and tlio eoltago in which he lived was his own property. He was last eecn alive at 10.30 a.m. on Friday, and wns not seen again until Monday morning, when a man named Alexander Lamb oalled at his house, and on entering the premises found Turner quite dead, sitting in a chair in his bedroom. Although deceased had been ailing for eomo time, he had never consulted a doctor.,-After the discovery of the body Dγ Gordon Maedonald, who was called in, made an external examination, and gavo it as his opinion, from what he. saw, that death resulted from heart disease and drops?'. An inquest will bo held at tho Morgiio at 9.30 this morning. _ . An unmarried man named William Hewitson, aged 60 years, following tiho oceunation of a fa.rmer, was found, dead in his Jioiife at LoveH's Flat on Sunday morning. Doaih is supposed to have been due to natural causes. A young woman named Margaret TCilUck, who was taken to the Christehnrch Hospital on Tuesday last. FiiftVrinir from phosphorus poisoning, died in the institution on Saturday evening. The deceased, who was 18 years of ,iqe, is said to have been in low spirits. On Monday lost elie informed her parents, with whom die wided in Linwood. that she hnd taken -poison, and it was discovered that she had swallowed tho heads of matches dissolved in water.