CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1917, 17 August 1888, Page 22

CASUALTIES.

The Cromwell Argus reports that a Chinaman, named Check Young, was found dead on the sth inst by one of his brother countrymen, at the head of the Roaring Meg, on the road to Cardrona. Deceased, it is believed, must have lost his way in the snow, and died from the intense cold. John Murphy, a bush cook, employed at Taurgakihite, near DargavUle, drowned himself in the Northern Wairoa river on oth iust. He had been drinking heavily. A man named Thomas Weatherill, a fairruor at Kangiahia, shot himself through the heart ou the 9th inst. Deceased \va c one of Major Jackson's company of Forest Raugers in the Waikato war. A Native woman, who won employed with 1 'therein clearing tho bush at Rotoruaon9th insfc , tripped whilst running from a falling tree and fell tin a sharp stump which pinned her through the breast. Death resulted shortly afterwards,

A man named George Bailey was killed in the Hokonui coal 'mine on the Bth inst. by a fall of coal. He leaves a wife and three of a family. A fatal accident occurred at Whangarei, Auckland, on the morning of 7th, when Mrs C. Courtney, whilst drawing water, fell into the well and was drowned. James Davit's, a passenger from Greymouth by the steamer Kennedy, disappeared overboard wh*en within a few miles of Westport at ab.iut 10 o'clock on the night of the 7th. He had suffered from illness anil weakness of mind, ami was coming here for a change. On 10: h inst., at Pakotakiwo.some miles north of Grisborne, five Maori whaleboats were out in chase of a score of sperm whales when one monster rushed the boats. One boat was smashed to atoms and another was stove in ftud M.mk. One of the crew of the first boat sank and was seen no more, and two were severely injured. The occupants of the boats which were sunk were picked up or managed to gp(. ashore. The pnrty succeeded in capturing and landing on the beach three whales. Clforge Best, aged 45, was killed on Friday at VVoodville wlril« bush falling. A limb fell aud knocked the man's braius out. Deceased was ni.'imeil, but leaves no children. At 1215 on Friday, William Bates, 70 years, old, was run over by a train on the Lyttelton line near Wilson's road, and cut in two. He was standing on the platform of the front carriage, and fell between the engine and the carriage. Four carriages passed over him. On the 12t.h during the passage of the steamer loua from Mercury Bay to Auckland, and when the vessel was about 10 miles out, a passeuger named George Connor fell overboard and was lost. William Hay, a compositor in the Lyttelton Times Office, died suddenly on Sunday evening. He was seized with paralysis at 5 o'clock, and died at 8 o'clock. The deceased was a son of the late Mr William Hay, who kept a bookseller's shop in Dunedin, with branches in various towns in Otago, in the early days. He leaves a widow and a numerous family. An extensive fall of earth took place at the rear of a row of houses situated in Willis street, Wollington, on Monday. A girl named Lizzie Mallows, aged 12, was doing some household work at the back of one of the houses, 1 when she noticed the earth slipping, and before she had time to escape about 200 tons came down, and buried her up to the neck. She was, extricated with difficulty, wheu it was found she had only sustained a few bruises.