CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2087, 22 February 1894, Page 21

CASUALTIES.

■Williamßath Camfield, a Victorian retrenched teacher, who arrived at Wellington recently from Melbourne, via Wtl iogton, is reported missing. He was seeking employment, and was despondent. The Timaru Herald reports that information was received on the 14 th iast. that the body of Mrs Dixon, wife of a shepherd in the employ of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, had been found in a creek near the C'tve fetation. A child aged 18 months, the son of a single woman, lift in the care of Mrs Singleton at Wellington, was accidentally suffocated by falling down a closet At the inquest; a verdict of " Accidental death " was returned, and a ridtr added warning guardians and parents of children against leaving them unattended when they were likely to get into any difficulty. A man named Grey attempted suicide at Strat ford, Tarauaki, on Saturday by swallowing a quantity of laudanum. Ur Hirston was promptly in attendauce, aud it took about six hours' treatment before Grey was prououueed out of danger. He was a pirtner in the firm of Shand and Grey, commission agents, at Stratford. The cause of his^rash act is net kno .vn. William Stevenson ' committed suicide on Monday by hanging himself in a Btable near Pleasant Point, Timaru. A sensational attempt at a double suicide took place at the Thames ou the 10th inst., no particulars of which were telegraphed. From tbe Herald we leirn that a youog man named George Ellis was charged with issuing n v.ilutless cheque for £3. and a warrant was issued at Auckland for his arrest. Ellis and his wife were seen by a constable iv tbe s rc-ct. Ellis was accosted and admitted his name, but when told lie must go to tbo police blation ho asked lo be allowed to go to a friend's house for a few minutes with his wife. The constable refuted, and then Mrs Ellm, who had been etauding apart, came up aud a o keel what was the matter. On bung told of the charge t>ho afckud to bo allowed to nueak to her huibuid jitivaSely botoro he was tnkeu away. After f uoie tlighl hcbilaliuu on the part of the constable this privilege was allowed, and lory pfoc(jer?fd aloog Martha htreet h disl'incu ol ab'jut 30 yards. They then stood togulhtr for a few mJtnculF, when the coustable observed Ellis htind .soun. thing to his wife, aad the lafctir at tl.is moment turned her back and shaded them bvth with her unibr< IU After this both Ellis and his wjfd accompanied the cjubtable to the police Pta'ijn. As Ellis was bting taken lo court he complained of being unwell aad commenced to vomit very violently, 110 j thau admitted that v.h<n he aud Ms wife had i been talking together tuey had fairly divided the contents cf a bottle of chlorodyne, each swallowing a h ilf. Tney had beeu in financial difficulties for some time and had agreed to die together when the crisis came. Medical aid was tout for, and in tho meantime Mm ftllis arrived. When told whab her husbaud had etati'd the declined to make auy reply, and for some time refused medical attention. Both j were removed to the hospital, where the stomach pump waa applied. Ellis ia about 25 years of ago and his wife is only 20. A tele- j gram ou Friday stated that the charge of issuing a valueless cheque was withdrawn, as Ellis had suffered enough. An old man named Dane, an inmate of the Old Men's Refuge at Hamilton, Auckland, aud formerly librarian at To Aroha, was drowned in the lake at Hamilton on Monday about noon. He was partially paralys-ed, and is believed to have f.illen in, as he was seen a& the margin of tbe lake bathing his head a short time prcviousl;. Willian Booth, aged 28 years, wis jimmed between log* in a shjot in Coabi's'n Bush, Pukakarore, Mangawai, Auckland, and cut in two He was v orknig hfc tLe bottom ot tihe sheet when the log came down. A verdict of " Accidental do«th" was ri turned. James Wright, a yonng man, was bathing in j tho Hult river on Mi n "a ', when he ctruck his head diving, causing paralysis < f the spine. His life U despaired ot. A girl naraed Ali-je J irvis died at Christchurch o t Monday frcm peritonitis, thj result of eating unripe fruit. A mining fatality ocenrred at Donoghue's, W.C ,on Saturday. Jost-ph M'Cready, aged 22, was working wiih his father in a tunnel, whbU the timber g^vo way. The father was caught in the ruu of dirt tbat followed, bub mauuged t-> ex ri^are hims"lf, but tlvj body of tho son was not retched till midivght. A btcrsman named John Aitkenhead, employed by MtEsrs Wright. Stephenson, and Co., died very suddenly at the Rainbow Hotel about 8 o'clock oaHondaj evening 'Fursometimepaet hehassuffe-pdfromillotvl'.i), aeden thisdecount wai urged by bis emplojc-s to take a holidoy. However, be pus off takirg a rest until seme future finte. owing, as ho ss.id, t> the present seas >n being a bj?y one. On Monday evening, presumably on his way he^ne, he called in at the hotel. He complaiLed of feeling unwell, and asked for a drrnk of water. He rested on a sofa fir a while, but as he got no better Dr Martin was sf-nt for. His services, however, wore unavailing, f..r soun after death intervened. Tbe causo o f his di?.ith is supposed to be a geLeral break-up of the pjstem. An inqnest was fce!d ci Monday morning when the jury rolurm d a vi rdic 1 ". lo the ( fl'ect lhat death ri suited from fai nrp of the 1 cart's action. A wire wasri-cuv- d frym Cromwell by the inspector cf police tint a bjy^named Robert Campbtll, 17 years of age, was drowned in the Clutha river, at Lowburn, while bathiDg. The body has not yet been found. An accident happened on Tuesday to Mr acd Mrs Bolton, of Wtlliogton, who were only maried that mrrning. After the usual felicitations had been fstendedtothe joudk couple, tbo littvr loft Wad«stown in a trap driven by Mr Bolton, tbe intention being t-> proceed to the l>ri<-e-groom's f»ron. In th'i conveyance v.ero fc!ie newly-marru-d couple, a si tor of the bride, Miss Bolton (a eifcter -.f Mr Bolfou), and a main fritcd. On descending Wadestown hill one of tbe wheels of tbe trap went into a deep rut on the road and caused the- breech in of the ban ess to break. The horse took fright, and backing broke the fence, precioifcating the trap, horse, and passengers over ths f.mba'jkmenh The puty fell a considerable distatc- and were landed en a thick hedge. Miss Bolton was most seriously hurt, one of her kneecaps beii g put out, whilst one of h^r ears was badly lacerated. The others efcaped with a severe shaking.

A youf'K iu<iu named George Ne«bitt w?.3 killed on the Sunnier tram liur, Chrisochurth, oi Tue6day niphr. His hit blew off, and be jrmped fro-n the t:am to recover it, but fell, cue of the cira pa: s ng over him.

The expenses incurred by the Napier Board of Health in the removal of carcases of sheep and cattle after the late floods will he paid by the Government, on vouohers being forwarded, to the extent of £171.