CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2244, 4 March 1897, Page 35

CASUALTIES.

The man who died suddenly at the Wontworth mine, Whangamata, Auckland, was Patrick Guyde. While drilling a hole he was noticed to suddenly roll over. He expired before anything could be done : for him. It was stated by Dr Wright. 1 wiio made the post mortem, that the causa of death was attributable to the bursting of & ! blood vessel through over-exertion. It appears : deceased was compelled to strike while in a | cramped position. A verdict was returned, in accordance with the medical testimony, De- ! ceased was 55 years of age, and leaves a wife j and four children in the south of fche colony. ! A man, who has since been identified as ' Joseph Tunny, fell or jumped into Wellington ] harbour on the night of the 23rd. Sergeantmajor Macdonald dived for him, and, after five minutss, got him out ; but though three hours were spent in trying to resuscitate the body the efforts were useless. Tunny was 35 years of age, a tailor, and has a wife and two children in Timnru. When last seen alive he was uuder the influence of liquor. At the inquest the evidence showed that he fell into the water while in a fife. Richard Clayton Skelly euntained a fracture of the skull at Heleneville, Auckland, by the capsizing oi a dray on the 24bh, and died in the hospital on the 27th. Tee infant son of James Hopkins, so severely burned at Rimu about the arms and head on Friday, 19 th, through a grass fire, died in the Invercargill Hospital. John Connell, 3 'baa driver, was killed in -a 'bus accident at Newmarket, Auckland, one day last wc-k. The horses bolted, and in trying to stop them he was knocked down and the 'bus and horses went over him, killing him instantly. Connell was 65 years of age. An elderly man named Alfred Weston walked into the river at Gisborne on the 23rd, and was I drowned. At the inquest evidence was given , that deceased was most eccentric in his 1 behaviour when umier the influence o£ liquor,

I and «v <eral vst^Je i.» t»*v him \ru>ii&& in tilt j riv-r, but tfcnr-ytit he vns ouly risyi'*rlf.'ny« I Weston i»<H<:i«»bly ?•-)& c...fc <rf h'.s £doiii »u<£ 1 v-a- dcPniind b*?ore '.'clp »:vw6&. A ptvhioi" l\n ."der tt&B in ez'Veice u^#»ixt£*t Mm. Tbe ynjr *.oinnii rbo fcii Vhron^L t£<» glass root t>r * r-randah at o<*y«flil*s hwdfog lm:ee hi Hi Pf ; iora on Jtn>-«iry 23 'JloJ ov 'i'l<urad*y from the- it juries receive* De«i<;t>c\ who n«» a d&nghler of H. M Is{o:.si, frvm whom M'lutosh's Bay on the Pouiaaula takes its name, was married a few days before the accident to William Pollock, a shepherd on the Reserve station, Clarence, and was making but a temporary stay at the boarding honse. A miner 67 years of age, named Thomas Hawthorne, who lived at Cardrona, was found dead on the 24th ult. on the road between his claim and hi* residence. Death is supposed to have resulted from natural causes. Thomas Aitken, a young man, son of a wellknown Moagiel resident and nephew of Me Cable, ironfounder, Wellington, went Home i two years ago after serving his time in his j uncle's foundry at Wellington. He became a ! convert to religious enthusiasm, and joined the Bjlolo mission to' act as the engineer of a small steamer belonging to it. Intelligence was received on Thursday that he died on October 14on the Upper Congo, 1000 miles from the coast. There are no details. ' Mrs Empjon, caretaker of the Lichfield street j fire station, Chrtstchuroh, was suddenly attaoked j with illness on Friday and taken to the hospital, j where she died shortly after her admission. Examination showed that two tumours had burst, 1 causing death. A shocking double fatality occurred at Woolston, Canterbury, on Saturday. A man named Richard Aylward, 46 years of age, a I currier and tanner, went out for a walk, and, • having been peculiar in bis tuanuer of late, some j of his -fellow boarders went out to look for him. They were horrified to find that his body had been seen floating in the Heathcote River, but had sank. Oae of tho party dived for him, but as the tide was high operations were ceased till about 8 o'clock, when the body was recovered. A young man named Joseph Mulker, 24 years old, whose parents { «re »»id to reside in Auckland, lived in the j Home boarding house as Aylward, and w*h one jo? the search party. He appeared to bave ! received a great shock at the finding of his friend's body, and while having breakfast later on fell off his chair and expired. A great gloom h*s been cast over the community, as both the deceased were greatly respected. At the inquest, the evidence showed that Aylward was suffering from tha effects of drink, nnd Mulker was watching him. Early on Saturday morning Aylward escaped, and drowned himself. A verdicb was returned that Aylward had bean drowned while temporarily insane through drink, and that ; Mulker had died from shock. !