CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1892, 8 May 1890, Page 24

CASUALTIES.

Wong Ohoy, a Chinese digger at Skippers, has died from influenza.

A man named Christie, said to have recently arrived irom New Zealand, was burned to death on Tuesday night in a house at Rushworth, Victoria.

A man named David James got a hand and part of an arm crushed on Tuesday in a scutcher in the Waicola flaxmill, near Otautau, and was removed for treatment to the Riverton Hospital, where it was deemed necessary to amputate the forearm above the wrist.

A fivo-year-old child, a daughter of Mr John Uren, of Blue Spur, was kicked by a horse and seriously injured ou Sunday last. The child while returning from Sunday school playfully attempted to put her hand on a horse which was grazing along the roadside, and had no sooner done so than the animal lashed out viciously, striking the little girl on the face, crushing the bridge of the nose and splitting the upper part of her face open. A five-year-old daughter of Mr R. Sneddon, of Round Hill, while playing about a chaffcufcter on Saturday last, had her hand caught in the cogs, sustaining a terrible crushing.