CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2086, 15 February 1894, Page 17

CASUALTIES.

Susan Price, wife of a labourer, swallowed a quantity of wax match-heads at Auckland on the 7bh and was sent to the hospital. Her husband could assign no reason except that she had been drinking. A gumdigger named John Murray, a passenger by the steamer Argyle from the Great Barrier, went missing on the passage. He was last seen at 10 pm. He complained to the engineer during the passage of pains in his head, and said he was goiDg to Auckland for advice. He showed a passbook for £100 in the Auckland Savings Bank. He is stated to have been a steady man. He has a brother at the Thames and relatives down south. Mrs Whitelaw, wife of a fireman of the Bteamer Richmond, was badly burned at Auckland on the night of the 6th through a candle igniting her bed clothes. The woman went to sleep and left the candle alight. She is progressing favourably. Mr Peter M 'Shane, a well-known farmer in the Geraldine district, died suddenly on Sunday morning, owing to the bursting of a blood veßsel in his head. Deceased had just finished harnessing his horse for the purpose of driving his family to church. A boy named John Wroble, 11 years of age, was received into the hospital late on the 7th from Greytown. Ib appears that on returning home from school he took hie boots off, aDd wbb eugaged junaping from a mouudon to the road. He jumped on to a piece of broken bottle, received a cub on the sole of his foot, which bled so freely that it was deemed advisable to send him to the hospital. Bernard Hearne, gardener at Mangatoro Station, near Danevirke, was drowned while bathing on Thursday. Esras Staples, brother to the well-known Wellington bookmaker, when driving a dray loaded with sheaves while harvesting at Maraekafcabo, fell, and the wheel crushed his stomach. He died in a few hours. An inFant named Femmel elied at Wellington on Thursday, it is supposed from the effects of an overdose of chlorodyno administered by its mother to relieve pain. At the inquest a verdicb was returned that death was due to an overdose of cblorodyne administered iv mistake by its mother. The medical evidence showed that some 20 drops were administered to the child, whereas the dose should not have exceeded half a dozen drops, and stress was laid on the fact that this drug should only be administered to children under medical advice. The HawkeY Bay Herald reports that a little boy named Clareburb, just able to toddle, had a miraculous escape last week, having fallen over a cliff 80ft high, and escaping with a broken collarbone. The child was picked up senseless, but when a doctor arrived it had recovered so far as to be bcreaming lustily. Examination revealed only the comparatively small injury already stated, and the child is progressing favourably. The whole of the fall was nob sheer, but the final drop, after the intermediate projections had been cleared, was nearly 20ft. A crew belonging to the O R.C. — comprising I P. J. Priest (stroke), Lecky (3), E. J. Priest (2), and Le Cren (bow) — had a spill in the harbour yesterday morning some distance from the shed while practising in a four-oared outrigged racer. A pleasure boat immediately went to their assistance and brought tb'".n safrly home, Priest in the meantime holding i;* the cok , a lal about. jj. v.,-ar& - <4~? * ~'f)i*? i-Zm^'Ut-mishap was thai the smoke's oar • >mp out ol j the rowlock whil" pressure was bsiug put oa it, | the etiinj,' ab tho top being broken ; and the boat being very narrow, the crew were simply shot oub. Henry Richard Moody, a labourer, and resident of Kaihikihi, Auckland, was found dead in some fern at the back of a hotel, with the remains of a bottle of 4< Old Tom" by his side. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that death resulted from the effect of sunstroke while deceased was under the influence of liquor. On Monday morning a little girl named Margaret Eileen Roban, whose parents reside at Ponsonby, Auckland, was accidentally killed near Te Aroha under distressing circumstances. The child (3£ years of age) was up on a visit to her aunt, at Waiorongomai, near Te Aroha. She was in a cart with her aunt, Mrs O'Grady, driving to church, at Te Aroha, when by some Bccident she fell out of the vehicle. The little girl was thrown to the ground with such force that her skull was fractured, and she died shorbly afterwards. A man named David Evitts was accidentally killed at Waitahuna, near Raglan, Auckland, on Monday, while exercising a horse. Richard Rundle. a pioneer Taranaki settler, died on S iturday night, in his eighty-eighth y< a-. He built the railway bridge over the Wanganui river at Aramoho, the first wooden store erected iv New Plymouth in 1841, and most of the bridges in this district. A boy named Oliver was drowned on Monday whikb bathing in the Waiongora river, Taranaki Samuel Alexander Pinkertou, a driver in the employ of the Wesbport Coal Company at Coalbrookdale, hung himself in his hub. His head was affected by an accident he met with a few years ago. He was well-known in Nelson and on the West Coast. A youth named Thomas Wilson, licensed out from the Burnham Industrial School to a farmer at Springßtou, died at the hospital on Monday from peritonitis, the result of eating unripe fruit. Dr Hauratty, of Feabherflton, had his thigh broken by a fall when ejected from a hotel in which he had been refused drink ou Sunday morning. A man named Anthony Gordon was ab work in a paddock ab Hastings, H. 8., when he died very suddenly. The cause was heart disease He was a single man and a potato dealer. A woman named Sarah Ann Meares, a widow, residing at Petone, is missing. She was last seen on the Wellington wharf on Saturday night. A letter written by Mrs Meares last week has reached the constable at Petone, asking him to look after her children, some of whom are grown up. In Wellington the mania for poisoning continue?. A young married woman was taken to the hospital suffering from swallowing a solution of match heads. She is recovering.