CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2152, 23 May 1895, Page 36

CASUALTIES.

A man named Fred Monk hanged himself ia his bedroom at Masterlon on Ibursday moming. No cause is a^s'g'u d for the act. aamuel OWficld, an ell cuter in the Arrow district, returning from Queenstown on Thursday, must have met with an accident, as he was found dead on the road to Murray's mill next morniug. The team returned to the mill last night with one of the korses of the team in tow, it having been killed. The team consisted of a waggon and six horses. A storeman at /the Phcenix Confectionery Factory, namtd Thomas Hurley, met with an accident while unloading a dray at the factory on the 15th inst. He got jammed between the di'ay and the wall, and had a rib broken, besides receiving a number of nasty bruises. The search for Frank O'Donnovan, tho missing gumdigger, has proved fruitless. It is believed in Auckland that he has either met with an accident or committed suicide. James Mills, a labourer, 57 years of age, died suddenly at 11 o'clock on Thursday night at Heriot. The cause of death is supposed to be apoplexy. The Tenui mail coach capsized in the Tenui river, Wellington. The pas^ngers escaped by swimmiug ashore. Two horses were drowned, one bag of mails was lost, and the coach was broken in halves. Mr H. J. LeCren, one oF the pioneer merchants of Timaru, died ou Monday afternoon, aged 63. George Newman, a driver employed on the •Wellington tramways, was admitted into the hospital on Saturday night, haying received serious injuries by falling off a tramc&r. It appears he was returning to work from. his home and was riding on the step of the tram. The next seen of him was on the ground, and the car was stopped with all speed, bat one of the wheels caught

him. He died on Tuesday morning. The injuries were moro severe than was at first supposed, the man's ribs being driven into his lungs. William Scully, and old Southland settler, died suddenly at Inverca-gill on Friday. The Southland Times states that some eight or nine weeks ago he met with an accident, beiag thrown out of a spring cart through the horae he was driving taking fright at a bicycle. His shoulder was injured, and he placed himself under the care of Dr Hogg. Hd came to town to consult the doctor, but on finding he was out Scully was about to go away, when he fell down in a fit. He received every attention, but died in the hospital. 1 Tho medical men being satisfied death was due to heart disease, no inquest was held. A widow named Schneider, about 35, attempted euicide at Wellington oa Monday by taking Bulph&tß of lead and opium. She had bsen eccentric for some time past. The woman was removed to tho hospital and a stomach pump used with such effect that she will probably recover. John Thompson, a very old resident of Lyttelton, and who last year occupied the position of mayor of that borough, died suddenly on Monday. A very painful accident occurred on Sunday to a young man named Joseph Isaacs, which has resulted in his loss of an eye. He, in company with two other young men ntmed Alfred Maion (of Mornington) and Henry Morris (of Andfrson's B'ty), was out rabbit shooting on the Peninsula. Mason and Isaacs were standing on a fallen tree pretty high up a bank, when Morris, who was some 20 j ards away lower down tbe slopa, fired at a rabbit, an 'l a portion of the charge af shot went in the direction of his com* psmions, one of the pellets striking Isaacs in the right eye. All the assistance possible under the circumstances was rendered to the unfortunate young man, who was taken to the hospital. The pellet entered at tho outer corner of tho eye, and pnssed through the globe, and the doctors have found it necessary to remove the eye entirely. The sufferer is a Bin of Mrs W. Isaacs, and was known in athletic circles, being a memher of the Dunedin Football Club and the Dunedin Amateur Boating Club. The cause of the accident is not very clear, but a possible solution is that Morris's foot s\ipped as he fired, and that the charge rose. Ano'.her theory is that the pellet glauctd off a stone or some other substance. Ma?on states that he heard the charge whistling by him.