CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2242, 18 February 1897, Page 20

CASUALTIES.

Mrs Janet Golder, wife of Mr John Golder, licensee of the Mornington Hott-1, died somewhat suddenly on Thursday morning. She was tskea ill on Wodnend*) 1 , and was confined to hor bsd, whera she was atwnfled to by a young lady named Mies Pine, who gave her some egg beaten up iv milk about 11 o'clock on Thursday morning. When Miaa Pine visited her half au hour later she wai dead. Unfortunately decoded was addicted to drink, and Dr Ikinier, who attended her, certified that doth wa« due to • syncoj.'a accelerated by chronic alcoholism. Au inquest waa held on Friday before Mr B. H. Carew, S.M., coroner, when fche evidence elicited the facb thafe Mr Golder did all he could bo cure his wife of the drinking habit. He left the hotel for three years for the purpose, but could not secure the desired result. A verdicb was returned that death was due to degenprat'on of the heart, accelerated by excessive drinking. Cajjtiin J. Braatifl, a well-known shipmaster, aged 63, di<;d suddenly at Auckland of apoplexy on the 9th while superintending repairs on the roof of hia house. Captain Brauad was in charge of bhe schooner Albatross in 1870, when Lord Pembroke aud Dr Kingsley made a cruise through the South Sea Islands, which gave rise to their book entitled "South Sea Bubbles." Mr J. O'Meara, M.H.R. for PahUtua, while riding a bicycle through the Mauawatu Gorge on Thursday, went over a bank on to the jagged rocks. He was hauled up insensible by means of a rope, and was found to be badly cub. He had aleo a scalp wound on the mouth and noee, and he was bruised all over. Ib will be weeks before he is aboub again. The banquet which was to have been held at Mangatainoka in his honour has consequently been pub off. Mrs Lean while riding a bicycle in Kent terrace, Wellington, on the 9',h, was knocked off her machine by a trap and broke her arm and sustained other injuries. A man named Alfred Dungey mci; with a perious accident on Tuesdiy, the 9th, at Evans Flat. He was (the Tuapeka Times reports) engaged at the time with Mr Buchanan at tho flour mill loading whear, oa to a truck att^hod to a trctcfci'in ergi-i- 'Vheu in the act of coupling the truck the > m_;ui ■ ..y some mistake went backwards instead of torwards. He was thus crushed between the truck and the engine! He was as soon a: possible taken to the hospital ia Mr Thomas Koughan's express, and on examination by Dr Newell he was found to have a number of ribs broken and also his collarbone, besides some internal injuries. Mrs Winifred Martiu, a widow of about 95 \ years of age, who lived ab Waifcaki with her ! son, Mr Bartholemew Martin, died suddenly ia

bed at 7 o'clock on Monday morning, Bth. The Waimate Times says that the deceased had been in failing health for some time past, bub had not beeo attended by a doctor for 12 months past. Dr Hayes, of Temuka, was tho last medirai man who had waited upon her, Mr* Martin having formerly resided in the Temuk» district. Dr Barclay saw the deceased, and certified that she bad died from failure of the heart's action, caused by senile decay. Tha aged lady, during her long life, had been almost free of sickness of any kind. A young man named Faulkner, son of a Napier coachbuilder, was run over by a timber truck ab the Peripiri Saw-mill. The wheel passed across his stomach. The injured man. died on the 14th. He leaves a wife aud four children. James M'Kas a respected settler ar Reef ton, was thrown from his horse at InangahuaV Junction on the 13th, and seriously hurt. He v is unconscious at present. At the Christchurch Polo Club's sports on the Agricultural Show grouuds oa the 14-th Beaucbainp Lane (the st>rre:ary) wai thrown from his horae in a r.ica aud seriously injured, breaking his collar-bone. At Wellington on Tuesday, the 9th inst., a horse attached to % milk cirb bolted, and the dtivcr (John Jamieson) ia jumping out was severely kicked by the animal. He then fell under a wheel, which passed over his body, fracturing hits ribs and inflicting other injuries, from which he di«d shortly afterwards. Mrs Helan James, wifeof Mr JosepTH Jame*. railway porter, living in Arthur street, died suddenly or/ Friday morning. Deceased had suffered for a number of years past from heart disease, for which she was treated ab the hospital. When liev son left for work on Friday morning sh'j told him he had tvettn • romt» homo for his dinner, as he might nob it ' t ■" alive. Shortly afterwards he receivt.*' >. ' . thab ulie waa d<jad. A neighbuuc f»uua uer lying ou the floor, and life was thenexbinuc. At the inquest on Saturday the jury returned a verdict to the effect that •• Death resulted from heart disease." William Ricketts, a well-known watchmaker at Oatnaru, committed suicide ou the 14th by cutting his throat with a knife. The body of a young woman, Annie Way, aged about 20, a domestic servant, the daughter of James Way, bootmaker, was found in tbe lake in Jhe recreation grounds ab New Plymouth on Monday rooming. She had been missing for two days. A fireman named Jeremiah O'Toole, employed on tho steamer Kauieri, had hi« thigh broken in two plicf s ou Sunday at Waitar* whilo bs«>> > - ing to lohcl wool for the Kaikoura. Dr Young, of the Kttikoura, took him to New Plymouth Hospital, -where he is progressing favourably. A sad accident occurred at Sumner Estuary on Sunday afternoon. Five young men were oufc in a boat when it oapHized. The occupants swam for the shore, 30 yards distant ; bub one (Gilbert M'Kay) was apparently G"izort with cramp and sank, and was drowned vi of the a(!sißlauce rendered by fche othutß. The body h«s not baen recovered. Six persons were injurad by a road accident; beyond Otautau on Sunday. A drag conveying 16 young people to fche Waiau Caves was going down Fenham Hill, when a trace got loose, and tbe brake not buing effective, the horses dashed off down hill. AH weub well till they came to a sharp bend ».b the foot, which fche horses negotiated safely, but the terrific pace, ab which tha drag took tho curve threw its occupants clean oub into the swamp, the drag nob being capsized. The driver, John Pye, had his wrist broken and dislocated ; Lizzie M'lvor, a delicate girl of 16, had her collarbone btokt-n, and waa insensible til) nexl day. Tho oiber» wore uuoon* ucious for a tinje, an"! nil mor» or l".'s i->jnr6i?, BOtn*i with Ryiup'.uai'S'Of itittrnai hurt, As Mr K'.ia.tßrou, a Bt<xeii.em.er at Taieri Mouth, was walking along the bfi&ch on S»turday, about two miles from the spot where Mr Walter Stott, of Greon Island, ™ drowned, he picked up a band and foroann. A gold ring, eugraved "C.S. to W. 8., 1887," droppnH off one of the fiuyvrs. Tho haiwl was identified by Mr BUckwoor', a. M<*ph«;w of t">; flrft-asid, who has b»en searehifijf in tUe lr-'ftlifcr over smco the fatality, before he had seen the r;n£. The hand was afc onco placed in a box mud buried. The general opinion of fi<horrnen *ud others at Taieri Mouth i* that the body of the unfortunate gcmtli'-ruan was jammed Huion<j tbe rocks, and that th^ arm was Rcvtvo-1 l'. f <-ni the body at the elbow joint by tbe .tcti >v olo l t'l" v.- r >.-.r"i Mrs Wooi), a widow, who lived by )irt> - e]f *6 Mounfe Cargill, wna found dead in htr bed on Saturday. Peter Weafchenstoue, », shearer, had a cup of tea with her on Fiiilay evening, when eho appeared to be in good health A fortnight ago she complained to a Mrs Herring of pains in her back, wbile her^on (George Wood) abates that she had been suffering from similar pains for the past three years. An inquest was held on the body on Monday afternoon before Mr Coroner C»rew, when a verdict was returned to the effeeii that death resulted from natural causes. The body of Mrs Crosean, who has been rr-issing »iuce the 13th of January, was found on Sunday on a steep face amoDg the rocks near the 'tVvi^t Rivrr. A labourer i.amed William Lv wit tell a distance of 15tfc while working at the new gaol ou Mouday. He sustained a fracture of the right ankle. He was taken to the hospital, where the injury was attended to.