CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2206, 11 June 1896, Page 25

CASUALTIES.

A young man' named Oleary, employed at tha Otekaike station, fell off a dray on the 3rd, and waa killed by tbe wheel passing over his head. The body of a m«n very much decomposed was found floating; in Wellington harbour on tha 3rd. It is thought to' be that of a seaman named Carl Brun, who has bean, missing from the steamer Matatua- since ■ the middle of lash month. A youth named Arthur Moore, about 1? years of age, living in Castle street, sustained a fracture of his right leg on the 3rd, by fall* ing from- the top of a gate in the yard of the Princeis Theatre. He was taken to the- hoi* pital, where the injured limb was set. ' A man named Donald Wilson had his shoulder dislooated on the 3rd, whilst working in one of the kerosene bunds in the city through a num> ber of oases falling on him. He wae treated at the hospital, and afterwards removed to his home. Mr Wilcox, manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company at, Napier, who was a passenger from the north by the Dingadee on Thursday, sustained rather severe injuries about the chest at the result of an accident on tha passage down, and was taken to the hospital en tha vessel's arrival. He' is progressing favourably and out of danger. t Mr John Adkins, who for the past 32 yearf has held the position of barman in the Provincial Hotel, was seized with an apoplectic fib on Thursday morning. He w«S removed to the hospital, and died in that institution at 8 o'clock on Friday morning. Mr Adkin* was a very old colonist, having spent the last 45 years of his life in Victoria and' New Zealand. 1 c was a native of London, and left Bugland in' 1851 for Melbourne. He oama to Otago in 1883, and spent about a year in mining operations at Waikaia and Tuapeka. He then came to Danedin, and, taking service in the Provincial Hotel, he remained there until he was unfortunately seized with the illness which ended in his death. An ipqueat wa« held afc the home of Mm B. Alleyno, H*wk»bury Bash, before Mr R. Mill, J.P., touching the death of' Mary Hellea Alleyue, whoie body was found in a creek near her mother's house at 9 a.m. on the 2nd iusb Mr Thomas Johntton, of Flag Swamp, wag ohoien foreman. Elizabeth Aileyne, tha mother of deceased, said her daughter was 20 years old last November. She was from her birth of weak intellect and sabjeot to fits. She was in the Benevolent Institution, Dancdin, for five years, bat came home from there foar months ago. On Tuesday morning, deceased got ap at 8.45 a.m. Aboub six or seven minutes afterwards witness mifaed her and sent her daughter Louisa to look for ber. Just after this witness heard Louisa scream. Witness ran to the oreek, and found deceai ed lying in the creek with her head under the water. She at once raised her head oat of the water, and, with the assistance of Mrs M'Qregorand Miss Sizemore, palled her up- on the bank. She appeared quite dead. Witness poured a little brandy down her throat and iued other means to try and restore life-, but without soecen. After the evidence of Misses Ann M'Qregor, Harkdet Sizemore, and Louisa Aileyne had baen taken, the acting-coroner summed* ap tbe evidence. The jury after a few minutes returned averdiobof "Accidentally drowned." A shocking fatal- accident occurred at Gforal* dine on Thursday night. Mary Hammond, aged 84-, living alone, was 1 found dead' with her head and shoulders in the fireplace roasting. She i» supposed to have fallen backwards into the fire. Henry Hughes, the well-known pateut agent, died suddenly of heart disease at Wellington on Thursday. He was in the best of spirits on Thursday afternoon, bab suddenly felt unwell and went home- and died a couple of hours after. The deceased, who was aged 63, was connected with 1 the building of the Great Eastern. He leaves a wife and family of eight grown np, *** A man named George Strain died in the hospital on Tuesday from injuries received' by a fall of clay in Gore's briokyard at Wingatoi about nine o'clock that morning. Tha unfortunate man was> extricated, with all pos> •ible despatoh, and. oonveyedby rail to tha hospital, but. he died in a- few hoars after 1 his admission. His ■ injuries ware' of an eztenaiva oharacter, both- his leg*' and several of his ribs being fractured He leaver a wife and one child. An injuest will be held- on Tharsday morning.

Mr John Ross, Green Island, met with an accident ©n- Monday night. He was driving to his home from town, and' hads reached the top of Look-oat Point Hill when his horce became unmanageable, and bolted' down the Cavev Bbam "Wiley road past' the Industrial School. Mrßo»s succeeded fa keeping the frightaueJ animal on the roadway until Caversham was reached, when- the .horse smashed into the verandah oft the shop of. Mr Griffith*. Mr Boss was thrown violently f rom-the trap and' rendered nneoncoioui for some time, bat after receiving attention was able to proceed to his home, having, so far as could be ascertained, escaped with a severe shaking and some oat* and bruises. The home esoaped withoufcinjury, bob the trap waa a good deal damaged, while thft •randan post waa smashed.