CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2258, 10 June 1897, Page 21

CASUALTIES.

Myles Nevsby, cook on the ketch Clematis, which arrived at Lyttelton on the £th inst., was knocked overboard on the voyage and drowned. The boat was running before a fitrong north-east gale and mountainous sea. Newby and two others were at the main sheet jibing the vessel. The deceased was warned to look out. As the boom came over the bight of the sheet caught him round the waist and hurled him overboard. His forehead struck the rail with great force, and he sank immediately. The decea«ed wss single, a native of Liverpool, and aged about 35. This was his first trip in the Clematis. A bootmaker n^med John M'Donald was found drowned in the dam of the Mosgiel factory on the night of the 4th inst. William Gunn, a packer, with thr«e pack horses and a saddle horse, left Campbell's Creek (over 20 miles from Roxburgh) on the 28fch ult. for Coal" Creek. Ib was snowing heavily at the time, and he wa3 advised by a digger nob to 6tarb. The horses were found on the 3rd inst. at the head of Shingle Creek, and as Gunn has not arrived, and bad weather prevailed for some days after hiß departure, it is surmised he perished in the snow on the ranges. A search party of 20 horsemen has scoured Campbell's Creek and adjoining ranges for traces of the missing man Gunn. It is feared that he has been buried in the heavy snow, and it is uot likaly that his body will be recovered before September. A married man named Joseph Crosbie, aged 59, and living in Castle street, died suddenly on Tuesday, Ist inst. Deceased, who was employed as 6torem»n in Messrs R. Wilson

; and Oo.'s premises, complained of being unwell, and was removed in a cab to his residence, ■ where he died almost immediately ou arrival, i Heart disease ia supposed to bo the cause of ; death. -The -matter was reported to the coroner, who deemed an inquest nnneeessary. | James Robertson, an old miner, 69 years of . ( age, was found dead in his hut at Main Gully, i I Naseby, on Tuesday, Ist iust. i I R. Falconer, working on M'Lay's dredge at Lowburn, went oat at 12 o'clock on tha night j of the 2nd to go on shift, and has not been seen since. It is feared that he has fallen into the river and beon drowned. | Roderick M'Kenzie, a settler at Okaib.au, and ! a Maori buehman named Hoehepa, of Hokianga, , were killed in the bush by a falling tree. Mr Joseph Toomey, licensee of the Shades Hotel, had the misfortune to fracture his left leg by jumping off his bicycle at Sfc. Glair on the 2nd inst. He was attended to by Dr Coughtrey, and removed to his home in the ambulance. A drag containing a number of people who were on their way home from a dance in St. J Matthew's schoolroom, which was held on j Thursday evening, collided at St. Clair with J a trap driven by Mr W. J. Bannatyne, solicitor. ' The ahaffc of the buggy was broken and the horse iojured, but happily the occupants of the vehicles escaped unburc. i Two ladt named Owen Doyle (13) aud ' Travers (17) were pigeon shooting on Saturday j at Weireroa, near Levio, when the latter tripped ■ and his gun exploded, hitting Doyle in the stomach and killing him on the spot. George Fanelly, one' of the men injured by the exploaien of gelignite on Capleston road, Victoria Range, West Coast, died at the Reefton;ho3pital on Sunday night. At an inquest on the body of Ellen Corkin, aged 19, found in a creek at Oraki, Southland, the evidence showed that the deceased had not ' drowned herself, but had in a fit;, to which she ' was subject, fallen into the water, face downward, respiration being stopped. I An elderly single man named John Hill was ' found dead in his hut at Island Cliff on SaturI day morning. The .deceased was a small I landholder. Heart disease vras the cause of 1 death. ! A yonDg man named Samuel Counter, «ged j 19, was riding a horse in the vicinity of the I TriaDgle on Monday when the animal fell, and 1 tha rider sustained a severe bruise about the ankle. He was brought to the hospital, where it was found that no bonas had been broken, but it was decided to detain the young fellow in the institution owing to his weak condition. Constable Dantheltgallantly rescued a woman j at the Queen street wharf, Auckland, on Satur- , day night. Ho heard her cry as she was drifting out; with the tide, but he could not see her for the darkness. He threw off his great coat, however, and swam out to her, -bringing her to the breastwork.