CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1866, 26 August 1887, Page 17

CASUALTIES.

A man named Sim Edwards was admitted into tho hospital on Saturday suffering with a fracture of the left leg caused by falling down on tho road at Kakorai, when leading a horee which w;i-< yoked to a dray. Ah Ting, a Chinaman, was aho admitted into the hospital on the samo day, ho having had his left leg fractured by an embankment falling on him which he was engaged in undermining at the Round Hill.

A young man named Edward Gregory, who was employed on Mr Beaven's farm, near Oporo, Southland, was drowned in the New River on the 17th mot. The deceased was only 21 years of age. He had been married about 12 months, and his wife had only been confined at Invercargill on the day prior to the accident. During the month of July, live deaths by violence were registered in New Zealand, the stated causes including an arterial wound, concussion of the brain, smothering, a fall from a horse, and suicide. 'I here was also one case in which the record was " Found dead in harbour."

Thomas Barrett, an old resident at Upper Shotover, died the other day from the effects of drink. It seems that after lying down to sleep on his stretcher, under the influence of drink, he tried to take another drink, which choked himf *' A country settler named Walter Henderson was drowned on Wednesday morning while crossiug the Hedgehope, at Miller's ford. He was at the time accompanied by two brothers and a sister. The body has been recovered, but no information is to hand in explanation, of the fatality. T. H. Escott, a resident of the mining township of Orepuki, fell over the face of a claim this morning, breaking two of h\s ribs and sustaining severe internal injuries.

Last night a man named Dore fell off the train from Invercargill to Lumsden. When picked up he was found to be badly cub about the head and otherwise seriously injured. .