CASUALTIES.
While two men, named M'AUster • and Watson, were engaged in pulling down a house at St. Albans, Chriatchurch, on the 14th, one of the walls foil on Watson, who received injarits from which ho died shortly afterwards. J.. Wakeman, aged 24, was killed at Makaoiro Wellington, on the 16bh. While he wa» engaged in fencing a large log rolled on to him, crushing him so badly thab he died an hour afterwards.
A man named Ross, injured at Three-mile Bash, West Coast, on the 15th, died in the Hokitika hospital on Thursday morning. Alexander Robertson, aged 70, was found dead on Friday in a house in WeHesley street, Auckland, where he lived alone. His antecedents are unknown.
Fred. Pnilpof> night porter, aged 38, a widower, while going up in a lift in the Waverley Hits], Auckland, en Friday night got his head jammed betwesn the lift and the rollers of the third ficor, and was instantaneously killed.
The Wyndham Farmer reports * fatal accident at Waikawa. William Robertson, aged 22, wa3 engaged in undermining a face of gravel in a pit near Mr James Tompleton's homestead, when a clay stripping on top of the face gave way, and in falling tttuck Robertson on the side. The poor fellow whs badly crashed internally, bat at first the case was nob supposed to be serious. On Wednesday, however, tho symptoms were so unfavourable that Dr Metzies was Bent, for only to find on his arrival that Robertson had been dead for some hoars. The young man was to have been married shortly.
A Ud named Pattr ReiHy, about 15 yrara of »ge, employed on the railway work* at Hyde, smtaiiitd a compound fracture of the right log on .Thursday, by a truck patting over him. He was brought to Dunodiu, and admitted to tha hospital. A ton of Mr Main, of Walwcra, who hid been out rabbit shooting, waa accidentally ahob in the shoulder by his b other on the 15th. He was attended to by I)r Bnailh, of Bftlclutha, who found it impossible to extract the pellets of shob, and tho eaee in therefore regarded as serious.
A widow named -Eliz*betb Jones, aged 33 years, committed micide at Arch Hill, Auckland, by hanging herself with a clothes lice while naei.tidly despondent.
Sir B. B. Walking, French master at the Auckland Grammar School, has died from heart disease.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2199, 23 April 1896, Page 34
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