CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2201, 7 May 1896, Page 36

CASUALTIES.

Timothy Cosgrove and Robert Saunders were drowned at Tongapokutu, Taranaki, on the 27th. They had been attending a meeting to elect ft school committee, and were returning home at about 9.30 in » canoe, which capsized. Six other occupants of the canoe had narrow escapes. Cosgroye, who was a single man, had friends in Woodville. Baundcrs w«i a widower.

Graham Brusre, an old settler on Mount Grey Downs, was found dead in bed on the morning of the 29th ult. The came of death was heart disease.

Margaret Munro, aged four months, daughter of William Munro, of Lee" Creek, died suddenly at 7 o'olook on the morning of the 29:h. The child had been in delicate health since its birth, but its parents thought that it had been improving lately/ and there was no doctor in attendance.

A young man named Henderson committed suicide by haugiag himsrlf at M'Jannett'g farm, Woodhead, Raglan, Auckland. Henderson went out to inspect sheep, and/ not returning M'Jannett went to look for him: He found him hanging by his neck in a house. Hender* son waa a native of Irvine, Ayrshire, and waf related to Mr Bishop, of Ponsonby, Auckland,

At the inquest on the body of Robert Henderson, at Raglan, Auckland, evidence" was given that the throat of deceased was cut by a razor, the wind pipe being severed. He evidently cut his throat first and hanged >im#elf afterward*. Henderson had been in tbe colony two years this time, having visited Ihe colony before. A verdicS was relumed ef " Temporary insanity."

The body of Saunders, drowned at Tonga* poru'u on the 27th ulfc,, was found on the 29th. Coßgrovfc's body is still missing.

Nowß"»has been received of the death by poiroriing of the infant child of Mr Simpson, shepherd at Belmnnt station, on Sunday, A sugar of lead lotion being used for tho eyes got into another child's band and was poured into the baby's feeding bottle with fatal results.— • Southland Times.

Some human remains were found in tha hollow of a rata tree on the MangawaiTokatoka road, Auckland, by a settler named Hey wood. Theyarebeliev-dto be the remains ofc a deaf and dumb man named Fleming, who lived with a Maori, and has been missing for 12 months.

The ill-luck that has pursued the barque Coromandel from the day of her arrival in these waters, culminated oh Friday at Wentporb in the death, by drowning, of John Vitaglich, aged about 19 years. The young fellow had been for some months acting for his father, who is ill, od the harbour st»ff When the barque was sailing out he went off to her in a boat with come charts for Captain Bendall, and fastened the boat alongside the vessel, with the object of bringing the harbourmaster (Captain Leech), who was aboard the barque, ashore when th* mouth of the river was reached. In the river, half a mile inside the bar, the boat seems to have swamped, and Vitaglich was thrown into tha water. The accident was seen from the tug,- and the crew railed an alarm which attracted the attention of those od board the barque. The tug saw the lad clinging to an oar. When Captain Leech looked over the side of the ship the boat wan full of water, but nu thing could be seen of Vitaglicfa. The barque and tug were then in a critical place, and it'seemed nothing could be done, bat it was hoped the lad would swim ashore. After the Mana had completed her tow, the boat was taken aboard, when the oars nnd bottom boards were found to be milling. Nothing was known of the acoident in Westport until she returned at 3 o'clock. The body has not been recovered.

At Finnerty road, near Stratford, as a lettler named Grummen was returning from his work his four-year-old con ran across tha floor to meet him, tripped, and fell on the floor on his face, and was killed instantaneously. A serious collision between a cab driven by J. Paget and Harper's butcher's cart took place in Napier on Thurdday night on the Taradale road. Paget was thrown to the ground, sustaining « broken jaw and concussion of the brain. Two passengers in the cab had a miraculous escape. A boy named Bowie, who was accidentally shot with a shotgun at Alfredton, Wellington, died from the effects of the injuries. Winifred Agues M'Culloob, aged two years, the daughter of Isabella M'Culloch, was drowned in a ditch at Outram, about 6 o'clock on Thursday. It is supposed that the child was crossing the ditch on a plank when it overbalanced and fell in.