CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2205, 4 June 1896, Page 30

CASUALTIES.

Mrs Kt'Nab, •of the well-known M'Nab'fl Gardena at the Lower Hutt, was found dead in her bodroom on the 25th. On Sunday she complained of feeling slightly unwell. Nothing | serious was anticipated, but she- died during ; yesterday evening. Death is believed to be one to heart disease. Hubert Medley, 66' years of age, died Suddenly at Christchurch on the 25th— it is supposed from heart disease. Mrs Charles Pettit, aged 79, fell dswnstairs at Nelson last wtek, breaking both her arms, and she succumbed on the 27th ult. Charles Brown, aged 21, a son of a settler at Colston, was fatally injured while bush-felling on Mr Rathbono's property on the 26th. He died at an early hour next morning. The Oamaru Mail reports that an old resident of Waimate, named John George Luck, met with a fatal accident on the 26th ult. As he was driving home his trap came into collision with a dray r with the reflult that it was capsized and Luck was thrown out on his head. The unfortunate man was conveyed to the Waimate Hospital, where he died on the mornIng of the 27th ult. MrsDarlii'gton, of the Carriers' Arms Hotel, Ida Valley, died suddenly on Thursday morning. A pair of horses attached to a buggy, bolted down Walker street on Thursday afternoon, but fortunately without doing further damage than smashing the vehicle, which was the property of Mr J. Stephenson. The bolt occurred in the temporary absence of the groom, who had< left the horses- standing quietly. Being startled^ they tore down Walker street, along Princes street, and back again. There was no one in the vehicle at the time the horses bolted, and the animals' were not injured. A fatal accident occurred' at Port Chalmers en Friday forenoon, about 11.20 i Mr Henry Tompkins, a well-known storekeeper, whose place of business was in Frederick street, Dunedin, was on a ladder about 10ft in length, in the act of painting and burning off the old paint on one of his houses in Grey street, Port Chalmers, when he suddenly fell on to. the ground, causing dislqcation of the neck and a , wound over the right eye. Dr Gunninghame was almost' instantly in attendance, and did all he possibly oould, but the deceased expired, in a few minutes. The body was carried inside Mr Inverarity's house. The deceased, who was well known in the Port, was about 65 years of Bge. An inquest was held on Satnrday, when fche jury returned a verdict of "Accidentally feilltd by failing off a ladder." k E. C. Moore, a blacksmith, of Leithfield, Canterbury, dropped* dead on Friday while shoeing a horse in his shop. He Buffered from apoplexy. On Friday night a woman named Margaret (Parnell made an. attempt to drown herself >t Wellington. She went down Queen street with » male comrade, with whom she was heard dit~ touting, and suddenly she left »him and fumped over the- -wharf into the water.'- Constable Oliphant noticed the woman go over, and ' fit once took off his coat and waistcoat and sprang in after her. The tide was strong ebb at tha time, and before Oliphant could reach her she was carried almost to the ferry steamer jetty, and had' gone under the water more than once. Oliphant, however, managed to grasp her, and after a somewhat hard struggle fcrought her to the steps. The woman was quite nncenscious, and it took some time to bring her round. ■- Mr Hugh M 'Bride, of Greenstone, is missing, and is supposed to have been drowned, in Lake Wakfttipu, his ooat having been found on Saturday at the Head ol the Lake. Since the football season commenced five j&layers. have been admitted to the hospital Buffering from injuries received on the field. S*our of the' cases were of broken collar bones, find, strange to say, three of these are^slaimed by the University Club. The fifth case wm< one of a dislocated shoulder. On Saturday afternoon James Simmers* (of the University first Fifteen) and Waddell (of the Second fifteen) were admitted, each suffering from & fractured collar bone. After receiving medical Jbteatmenfe-thoy were removed to their respective homes. On Saturday afternoon a man named William Grant, a resident of Berwick, whilst rabbit ■hooting was struck ia the eye by a pallet from the gun of a companion. He was taken to the hospital, but the house surgeon is at present unable to say to what extent the sufferer's eyeBight will eventually be affected. A young woman named Mary Alleyne, aged 21 years, was accidentally drowned on Tuesday morning in a creels at H*wksbury Bush. The particulars to hand respecting the miising man Hugh M'Bride, who is supposed to have been drowned in Lake Wakatipu last -week, are to the effect that he left Gleaorchy on the 28th ult. in a boat, which was found floating on the lake next morning, the oars aa well as the ocoupant being missing. The miss- ■ ing .man was & labourer, 60 years of age, and was residing with his brother, John M 'Bride, a farmer, who lives at tha GreenBtoue, near the Head of the Lake. An inquest was held at Ida Valley on Friday, the 29th ult., touching the death of Caroline Christina Darlington, wife of Josiah Darlington, licensee of tho Carriers' Arms Hotel, whose death was reported to Constable Gleeson at Ophir, before Mr T. F. Denniston, actingcoroner, and the following jury :— Messrs W. Stuart (foreman), G. M'Manus, E. Crabbe, H. Sinnamon, A. Purvis, and W. Brotherston. The evidence went to show that the deceased had keen confined to bed for some days, but appeared considerably better the night previous to her death. Mr Darlington, who retired to bed about midnight, spoke to her, and she appeared all j sight. Three hour* late -ho became restless, bat made no remark A little later on Mr Darlington found Mrs D.ulington was dead. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased came to her death from ohronic alcoholism, terminating in fatal syncope.