CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2090, 15 March 1894, Page 17

CASUALTIES.

A boy 10 years of age, named Robinson, met with a fatal accident at New Plymouth on the 3rd inst. He was sent by his mother to cut down some furze in a paddock. Some time after he was found lying in a ditch with a terrible gash in his head. He was taken to the hospital, but died soon after admission. A case of supposed strychnine poisoning is reported at Auckland, the sufferer being Andrew M'Clymont. It appears he took four grains of poison (strychnine), assigning no reason for his act. Dr Kind administered an emetic and the man was removed to the hospital, where he is now out of danger. He admits the act, and says that he had taken some laudanum previously, but vomited it. An information has been laid against him by the police under the new act. William Lestrange, a labourer, fell off the wharf ah Auckland on Thuwday afternoon. A sailor of the barque Taihiti, named Greenaway, tried to rescue him, and held up the body till a boat came, but life was extinct. A man named William Young Spiers, 61 years of age, a resident of Ruf sell street, died suddenly on Thursday morning. Deceased had been suffering for some time from heart disease. He retired to bed on Wednesday evening abont 10 o'clock in his usual sta^e of health, and awoke about a quarter past 2 o'clock in the morning. He then complained to his wife of feeling a choking sensation and of being uuab!e to breathe properly. He also felt a p*in about the heart. His wife went for a Mr Chisholm, a neighbour, and Spiers expired shortly afterwards. Deceased had been complainiDg of his heart for some time past, and two yeara ago he was attended to by Dr John Macdonald. With his family he was in Wellington until six months ago, and he was then receiving treatment for the same complaint. At the inquest a verdict was returned to the effect that deceased died owing to failure of the heart's action. A dead body (probably that of R Campbell, who was drowned at Lowburn when going to his home on the 18th nit.) was found on the beach below Beaumont on Thursday. The body, which is much decomposed, has been removed to the latter place. Louis Black, aged eight years, was drowned on Friday morning while bathing in the Auckland harbour. Charles Stewart Connelly, aged 222 years, was killed on Friday in a gravel pit at the Three Kings (Auckland), a large boulder of scoria having fallen upon him. He was working alone, and it was some time before it was known that an accident had occurred. His father, who is a farmer in the district, owns the pit, and deceased worked it. A man named Ho^an, a resident of Wanganui, went to New Plymouth with his wife by the tlrough train on Friday. Hogin had been unwell during the journey and expired just as the train reached New Plymouth station. Hogan was at one time a resident of Auckland, being connected with the Kohioiaratna Industrial School. A severe accident happened at Eltham, Taranaki, a man named Orbell narrowly escaping death from the kick of a horse. As it was, he had h ; s nose smashed and face severely cut The two-year-old son of George Townsend, of Masterton, was t»bot through the stomach on Friday while playing with an old revolver which another child of three had found lying about, j The child's condition is critical. Phillip Brady, a farmer at Lobnrn, Canterbury, died on Friday from the effects of an accident which occurred to him on the previous Wednesday. He was unharnessing a horse, when the animal knocked him down and trampled on him While Mr John Milton, who resides alone off the Opoho road, was walking down a track leading from his house to the North-East Valley he fell and broke his leg a little way above the ankle. The matter was reported to the constable in the valley, and he communicated with Dr Coughtrey, who gave Mr Milton what surgical attention was necessary. Mr Richard Haste, Taieri Lake, was thrown out of his cart one day last week, and had one of his ribs broken. The Mount Ida Chronicle says that a rather curious accident happened to a young lad named John Beattic, a son of Mr John Beattie, of Naseby, on Thursday. It appears that/ the lad went to meet his brother, who was out shooting rabbits, and apparently he came into view just as his brother was in the act of firing, and, unfortunately, received the contents of the gun in his right arm and left leg. As he received the pellets (25 in number) in hi 3 arm and leg while neither his head nor body was touched, he must have been some 30 yards off from his brother when he fired. The pellets lodged in the muscle?, but the accident was not dangerous ll and the lad, who was taken to the hospital, will be allright in a few days. The Auckland police have at last ascertained pretty conclusively that the man whose decayed' regains were found lying in the scrub near Henderson's in February last were, as surmised at the time, wf s of a foreigner named Neil Jensen, who had been missing from Sydney since last year. It seems Jensen was a member of the New Australia party, and intended leaving Sydney for Paraguay last year. He left Brisbane for Sydney, and then left Sydney with the avowed intention of coming to New Zealand to look for his sick brother. Since he left Sydney nothing had ever been heard of him, and it is believed by the Auckland police, as the result of inquiries made in Australia, that the remains found in the scrub near Henderson's are none other than those of Neil Jensen. The body of a Chinaman named Chee Yon was found at Bannockburn on the 11th inst., near his hut. He was 60 or 70 years of age, and the body bore no marks of violence. Death is supposed to be due to bad health and old age. The matter has been reported to the coroner.