CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2251, 22 April 1897, Page 36

CASUALTIES.

George Hogg, labourer, was- found dead in a street at Featherston. He was lying in the middle of the street. There was no sign of violence or of a struggle.

A young man (Thomas Hall) died from the effects of iohaliog the fumes of phosphorus while niixing'rabbit poison on Balmoral statiou, Mackenzie Country one day last week.

A man named Alexander M 'Donald, a storekeeper at W&imauku, Auckland, committed tuicide on the 11th by taking strychnine. Deceased is said to have b?en drinking for some timep»sfc. After he bad taken the strychnine he tpld hia wife and a gumdigger who was by at the time of what he had done, and the um*l remedies were applied, bub without success. Ho leaves a wife and five children, who, it is said, are totally unprovided for. Ab the inquest the evidence showed that deceased was in financial^iffioulties. He had been drinking the day prior to his death. He had borrowed strychnine from Edward Kelly several months previom and had never returned it. The jury returned a verdict that deceased died through taking poison while of unsound mind. Deceased leaves a wife and five children (of ages from six and a-half years to three months) almost destitute.

During the trip of the Talune from Lytfcelton to Wellington a young man named Merritt, aged *b?ufc 23, son of a carrier in Sydenham, Christchurob, died suddenly. He was speaking to a couple of friends on Friday morning, when he gave a gasp and died in a minute or two. Deceased was a member of the Albion-Football Club, Christchurch, and a team from it, including the deceased, was journeying to play the Poneke Second at Wellington on Saturday afternoon. In consequence of the unforhinate circumstance the match was abandoned. At the inquest a verdict was returned that death was the result of failure of the heart's bcMob.

While John Anderson, aged 50, a fl&xmiller at Foxton, and bis son, aged 22, were sailing in a boat from Kapiti Island to the mainland ifc capsized. The father was drowned, but the son was rescued by Maoris.

On Friday the body of a man was found in Wellington Harbour, and at the inquest was not identified, and aTerdicbof "Found drowned" was retorncd. Since the inquest it has been ascertained that the body iy that of a man named Kirkwood, aged about 50 jjears, who some time previously had been an inmate of a lunatic asylum.

Eva Cox, aged 3, died at the Christchurch Hospital on the 16th, where she was taken; suffering from eating match heads. While at sea. O'Connor, chief steward of the Penguin, had his collarbone broken by being thrown to the deck.

Charles Holland, second cook of the Mahinapn», had his leg b-oken on the voyage from Now Plymouth to Wellington.

Cuthbert Cowan, jun., was struck in the left eye by three pellets of shot from the guv of a companion while shooting afc bis f aihor's placi at Benmore, Southland. The doctors will wait for a. few days before taking further steps.

James M Neill, a Southland thrrshing-rnill owner, got a serioui blow above and below the eye on Fr;d&y night. While shifting a mill, the team stuck him up, and he -went to use the whip. He was nest found on the road unconscious with the whip round the trace chain, and ib is supposed that when the horse sprang into the collar the whip struck M 'Neill. A man named Fraderiek Hopper, recently from Sydney, attempted to commit suicide at Wellington on Monday bjr taking an overdose of a sleeping draught. He was removed to the hospital, and is recovering 1 . Mr David Scoular, of Messrs W. Scoular and Co., mot with a nasty accident on Good Friday, which fortunately in not expected to have any serious results. He was out shooting with Mr Sincock. of the Casile Hill Coal Company, near Wahmiwa, Southland. Approaching a fence Mr Sincock, who was carrying his gun in a safe pasition with tho muzzle to the ground, was juet about to lower the hammers before crossing the fence, when Mr Scoular, who was leading, instead of getting over the fence, took a step or two backwards and touched his companion's gun. In gome unexplained way, probably through portion of Mr Sincock's clothing touching the back trigger, the hammer fell, and the gun going off Mr Scoular received the ' charge in the shin, about an inch- above the ankle. After receiving first aid the injured man was promptly taken by train to the Invercargill Hospital, where Drs Tonng and Bl'Leod attended to him. It wa 8 found that portion of the shia bone bad bee D

■hob away, bub both madical gentlemen are of opinion that Mr Scoular will make a good recovery and is not likely to be affected by the injury. His progress so far has beea satisfactory. His companion was greably put oub ab the unfortunate accident, but apparently he was in no way to blame for ib.

John Auld, aged about 39 years, who resides at' the Eaikorai, while out 'ruing on Moaday afternoon was thrown from his horse, and sustained a compound comminuted fracture of bhe lower jaw. He was taken to bhe hospital, where he had his injury attended to.

A lad named E. Deady, a son of Mr Eugene Deady, of Alexandra, mot with an accident ab Green Valley on bhe 14th insb., by which he received a fracture on the thigh.