CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1970, 22 August 1889, Page 28

CASUALTIES.

Our Palmerßton correspondent writes :: — M Au inquest was held on Thursday before Mr Stratford 1 , coroner, and a jury, of which Mr C. Gillespie was foreman, on the body of young Carnegy, who was burned to death through his clothes catching fire on the 2nd inst., and particulars of which I sent you on Wednesday. The evidence showed that the parents had neglected to send for a doctor until too late to be of any avail. The jury brought in a'verdict of « Accidental death/ and in a rider censured the parents for not calling medical assistance immediately after the deceased met with the accident. A lad employed at Hudson's factory named Edward Mills was received into the hospital on Friday morning suffering from a crushed hand, which had accidentally been drawn in between two rollers. Dr Barclay attended the sufferer. Captain Nelson, of the ketch Aparima, while setting the mainsail of his vessel in Pigeon Bay (Canterbury) on Thursday was knocked overboard by the boom and drowned, his mates being unable to help him. Captain Nelson was a native of Riverton. A miner named Miles Irwin died suddenly at Hindon on Saturday. He was observed about 3 o'clock in the afternoon to fall down while burning tussocks in front of his hut door, but he got up again and went into the hut. Two men followed him, and he told them that before falling he lost his eyesight, but it subsequently returned. He complained of pain in the left side, and continued in a state of pain for about four hours, when he died. He had on several occasions during the past few years been treated by the hospital doctors tor illness, but he was in hia ordinary health for some time past. The cause of death is believed to have been apoplexy. He was about 56 years of age, and supposed to have been a single man, and the only relations he is known to have had is a nephew in Victoria. Ho was one of the oldest residents of the district. A boy named James Anderson, 14 years of age, grandson of Mr Anderson, baker, of High street, had the misfortune to come by a painful accident on Monday afternoon. The young fellow was wheeling a barrow on the pavement in front of his gr andf ather'sshop, when in some unaccountable way he slipped and broke his leg. Dr Ferguson happened to pass the spot three minutes afterwards, and his services were at once called into requisition to attend to the little sufferer. He set the limb, which, it may be said, was broken some years ago, and by latest aocounts the boy is getting on well. A young man named Schaper fell off one of the Pakce cars in King street last Saturday night and severely sprained his ankle. He was conductor of the car. Our Palmeraton correspondent writes :-— " It is my painful duty to inform you that the accident — particulars of which I previously sent — which happened to Mr Jns. Stenhouse, a very old and respected resident of this and the Goodwood district, has terminated fatally, Mr Stenhouse, in spite of all that the best of attendance and medical assistance could supply, died yesterday (Sunday) morning at 4 o'clock." John Franklin, one of the crew of the barque Largo Bay has been drowned by falling into tho Auckland harbour from the vessel's gangway. He wks partially intoxicated at the time. Deceased was a native of Southampton. Capfc. JohnNiohcJ, well known at Auckland aa master of the schooner Araura, and foxmerly the Julia Pryce, was drowned by falling overboard from that vessel during the voyßge from Raratonga to Aitutataki. He sank before an effort could be made to save him, and he was never afterwards seen.