CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1947, 18 June 1891, Page 11

CASUALTIES.

Mr Francis L. Clarke sustained a fracture of the left leg on the 11th inst. through a kick from a horse. The sufferer was removed to the hospital, where he was attended to by Dr Coughtrey.

While Constable Williams was passing along Rattray street at 1.10 a.m. on Sunday he heard a voice calling for help at the back of Messrs P. Hayman and Go's, warehouse, and on proceeding in the direction from which the cry came found a man named William Soott, a clerk in the employ of the Westport Coal Company, whose leg was broken above the ankle. Scott stated that he was coming from Dowling street, and, losing his way, fell over a precipice. Dr Jeffcoat bandaged up the leg, and Mr Scott was then removed to the hospital, where Dr Copland, attended to him. A boy named Johnston M'Ara managed to fracture his left arm on Saturday afternoon by falling on the footpath near the post office. He was taken to the hospital, and after the limb had been set he was able to leave the institution for home.

Mr Briggs, chief officer of the Linda Webber, who was suffering from dysentery on arrival of that vessel from the islands, has died in the Wellington hospital.

A man named Thomas Bell, who was a clerk on H.M.S. Curagoa, and who has been in the Lyttelton hospital for some time, .died on Saturday night, and was accorded a military funeral.

An old settler at Pahatsnui, named William Jones, aged 77 years, was found in a creek on his farm on the 11th. His wife was drowned in the same creek four years ago.

A man named William Whittock, who has been employed as messenger in the custom house for some years past, has been missing from his home since Friday evening last. He left town about 7-30 on that evening, by the Anderson's bay 'bus, and alighted at Melbourne street, near his place of residence. He, however, did not arrive home that evening, nor has he been seen since. On Saturday morning his hat was found on the vacant ground, lying between the Anderson's Bay road and the railway line, and although an active search has been made no clue as to his whereabouts could be found. Tbe missing man is a native of Scotland, is about sft 9in in height, wears a dark beard, and is attired in a dark serge suit of clothes. As might naturally be expected, his friends are greatly alarmed as his disappearance.

The inspector of police hue received information that the infant child of John Highet, of Macraes, died on Friday night while in bed with its parents. Suffocation is supposed to have been the cause of death.

During squally weather at sea John Humphreys, able seaman on the barque Alice Muir, from Sydney, fell from aloft. A buoy was thrown, but he failed to reach it, and he went down. He was a native of Kent, and aged 24. A married woman, named Ellen Davis, dropped dead at the Thames on Monday while preparing breakfast. She had always enjoyed good health. The cause of death was apoplexy. The same evening a billiard marker, named Alfred Clark, who was subject to epileptic fits, fell in*o an open drain, and was suffocated before he was discoverer 1 , being then quite dead. Two days after tbe Tongariro left Plymouth George Bartlett. a seaman, fell from the topgallant yard 80ft to the deck, and died a few days afterwards from his injuries Ou Monday the steamer's carpenter, Lecras, fell from the deck on to the wharf, and was very seriously injured. He now lies in a precarious condition.

Mr J. W. Bryant, who was born on Petone beach in 1840, and waN the third white man born in the colony, died on Monday from the effects of a buggy accident.

James Young, a Greymoulh baker, who was bnmb out on Friday, is missing, aud has not been eeen since 12 on Sunday night, after putting a batch of bread in an oven which bad been rebuilt;. Search parties were out over the neighbourhood, but fsiled to rind any trace of him. It is thought possible he strayed into the bush while temporarily dementtd. A Chinese miner named Ah K»n was killed in his claim at Bsllarat bill, Stafford, on Monday. A fall of earth struck and knocked him into the tail race, breaking his neck and one leg Mrs Hibell, wife of Frank Hibell, insurance surveyor, died suddenly at Christchurch while going about her housework. She was 42 years old. The cause of death is supposed to be heart disease.

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