CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1899, 26 June 1890, Page 18

CASUALTIES.

A fatal accident occurred at Henley on the night of the 10th. It appears that a man named David Gray, an insurance agent, was riding along a road not far distant from the Henley Dairy Factory, when bis horse stumbled and threw him. He was severely injured, but was not noticed till next morning, when a farmer named Thompson heard him groaning, and proceeding to the spot found Gray on the road in a very weak state and unable to rise. He had him removed to more comfortable quarters and sent for Or Cattan, who promptly put in an appearance and attended to the sufferer, but it was coon evident; to him that his patient was too far gone to recover. This proved to be the case, Gray dying on Wednesday afternoon from the injuries he had received.

During the voyage of the Rimutaka from Cape Town to Hobarfc, Denis Brennan, a second saloon passenger, died from pneumonia. Deceased, who was about 70 years of age, was on a visit to hia brother, residing either at Hokitika or Greymouth, but whom he had not seen for 18 years. He embarked at Cape Town on May 24, and died on May 31. During his illness every attention was paid to him by Dr Owen, Captain Greenstreet, and the officers of the ship. A young girl of 18, named Mahon, was found dead in her room at Hamilton, Auckland, on the 19th. She suffered from epileptic fits, and had evidently been seized while praying, as her rosary beads were in her hands.

An old man named George Mays was felling trees with his son, at Hamilton, Auckland, on the 19th, when he slipped and fell in front of his son's axe, whioh descended and nearly severed his arm above the wrist.

Samuel Klatfc was killed at Wellington on the 18th through a detached branch falling on him while he was'working in the bush. Mrs S. Myers met with a rather severe accident on Thursday. While crossing a paddock near the sandhills at the Ocean Beach, the horse she was riding was tripped by a stump concealed by the long grass, and the rider was thrown, with the result that she sustained a fracture of the leg. She was conveyed to her home in the North-Ease Valley, and is making good progress.

A man named James Shannon was killed on Monday at Ohaupo. He was working on a farm carting posts, when his horses bolted, and he was so seriously injured that he died before medical assistance could be procured.

Mr and Mrs Thomas Hall, of Awamoko, were thrown out of their buggy on Sunday, and Mr Hall bad one of his legs broken, while Mrs Hall waa also injured.

A six-year-old boy named Lawson had his legs badly crushed by being run over by a dray at Kurow on Saturdaj, and is is a serious condition. The parents of the boy only recently lost another son, who died in the Dunedin Hospital of a tumour in the brain. — Oamaru Mail.