CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1915, 3 August 1888, Page 13

CASUALTIES.

Miss Dafton, schoolmistress at Kakanui, broke* her arm at tho skating rink, Kakanui, on the "evening of the 2sth, Dr de Lautour was sent for and set the arm.

On the 24th ult. two men— William aud Jamea Walsh — applied for shelter to Mr Brittain, landlord of the Soathbridge Hotel, Canterbury stating that they had no moxey ; and William appearing to be very ill, Mr brittain took tfc«)'-i iv and sent the man to tho ch«mi9l's f'ov medicine. He afterwards tient f->v Dr Wither ', but the man became worse, and died mxb morning. Jas. Walsh states that bis brother had beeu ill fora fortnight, auJ hud be«ii ■»«.<- fused admission to bhe Christobnt«ra Hospital. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of "Death from acute bronchitis, accelerated by exposure/ adding a rider that the fact that_ he had been reftiscd admission to the hospital should be brought ander the notice of the hospital board. Mr T. H. Potts, in old ressident of Canterbury, dropped dead in Mrs' Sharland's fancy goods shop, Colombo street, Christchurch. He was about 60 years old, was a member of the Board of Governors of Canterbury Cdllege. and also a member of the Provincial Oouucil in bygone years. He wa» on© of the best naturalists in the colony, and iras widely known by his series of papers entitled " Out in the Open." John Cookson, aged 15, son of a settler at Seaview, Timaru, was kicked on the head by a' horse on Sunday afternoon and sustained a compound fractnre of the skull. He never recovered consciousness, dying at 2 pjn. on Monday. A man named John Gough, employed at Parotarau (Auckland; tunnel on the Main Trunk railway line, was killed on Saturday morning by a fall of earth, the timber in the tunnel having given way. At the inquest a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. It is stated that since the accident 30 men have lef* the works, alleging that they are unsafe. A Maori named Wellington, who was shot in the arm at the Poroti affray, died in thehospiHl on Monday.' The wound was severe, but the injured man would not consent to amputation unless his chief's consent was obtained by telegraph on Monday night. The operation was performed on Tuesday, when the patient died' in the surgeon's hands.