CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2202, 14 May 1896, Page 24

CASUALTIES.

Chris and Archie Thompson, father and son, were drowned on the 6'h while fishing at Pohara beach, Tskaka, Nelson, by the accidental upsetting of a boat. As Mrs Meadows vs. 9 driving from Woodeud to Kiiapoi on tho 6th, she was thrown out of the trap. She was picked up inaeneible aad died in a few hou'S. While RicWd Gribbon, a lad of 17, waff out shooting- with othtra on Monday afternoon the left bairel.of a doable-barrellad muzzle-loading gun bursb on his firihg it, sfaattenug his hiud f-o much thai; on being taken to bis home at Kiit:xDga,ta the hand had to be amputated above tho wrist. He is making good progress; A man Darned Peter Hansen tell over a bank in Parliament street, a very precipitous Wellington thoroughfare. Ho was picked up unconscious and apparently severely injured. A lad named 12'hvard Schmidt, lb years of aj>e, 1 mplojecl a& farm hand At Finxton, Canterbury, was kicked by a horse on the eveuiug of the 6tb, and died on Friday. Thd Huuterville Express reports that Mr Lloyd who hss a contract on the Otira'station, had' a startling experience the other day. On his ivaj from Hunterville seven pounds of blasting powder, in a haversack olung over his shoulder, exploded, fortunately with no worse result than Bingcing off the whiskers on one side of his faoa. Ha was riding one horae and leading another. Both animals had their tails considerably scotched. It is thought the powder ignited through matches in the bag. The powder was loosely wrapped in paper, which no doubt accounts for ths mir*cul'ouß escape of Mr Lloyd.