CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1928, 2 November 1888, Page 13

CASUALTIES.

Father Walsbe, parish priest at Kumara, sustained severe bruises by a fall from a buggy going to Waimea. He w?s uuconscious threequarters of en hour. He was subsequently conveyed in a buggy to Kumara. The injuries are believed not to be serious. A Maori is in the Auckland Hospital in a critical state, the result of injunea sustained by him while a prisoner at Mount Eden, H<3 had a quarrel with a fellow prisoner named Arthur Kirk while stonebreaking, and the latter pushed the Maori into tbe quarry, causing rupture. Kirk was sentenced by the gaol authorities to seven days confinement on bread and water for this offence. A flee broke oub in Poady's butcher's shop at the Thames on Monday morning last, »ad spread to the livery and bait stables of John O'Counell, which were also totally destroyed. A youug woman named Emily Jenkine, employed as servant by Peady, was burnt to death, while Peady and his wife and child had a narrow escape. The loss is estimated at £400, and there were no insurances. Incendiarism is suspected. An Austrian stevedore named Charles Demicheli was found lying unconscious in the hold of the Arawa at Ly ttelton on Monday. He had been sent to put some sheep into the reserve chamber of the ship, and bad evidently slipped don n the door, falling 20ft. His bkull was fractured, and he died during the afternoon, He leaves a wife and three children.

"Rough on Catabeii" corrects offcnnive odours at once. Complete euro of vroret chronio cases ; also unequalled as gande for diphtheria, Kore throat, foul breath. The Rev. Father Reignier died on Sunday night at Napier, aged 77 years. He arrived in tbe coloDy in 1842, and was greatly by Protestants aud Catholics alike.