CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2273, 23 September 1897, Page 30

CASUALTIES.

Another fatal accident by falling into a boiling hole happened tit Rotcrua to a young Native giil named Lucy Ngupuußj a member of the Tuhcurarjjgi tribo. She wa3 coming out cf Paul's whare at 8 o'clock on Thursday t.i^hfc, when the fell into a boiling Bpring. Sufficient time elapsed before ohe was git cut to preclude all hopes cf hrr recovery, and she died hbaut 8 o'clock yeHterday mornirjg after undergoing much sgony. Deceased was a great favourite with tourists and others at Whsltatewnrewa.

The three- and-a-half-j ear-old son of J Ebbetfr, of Meharahara, N. I , was burned to death on Friday night. The boy's dress caught fke durirg the temporary absence of his mother. He was terribly iojured abcub the bjdy and face, *n<l died at mid-dsy.

The Kum^roa mail cart caps'ZPd en the Nnpier ioad ou Tuesday, 14th imt. Messrs Poster, Pratt, and Sewell, of Paimerston North, were passengers. The former had his left wrist broken. A lady passenger also bad her leg injured.

Jobn Leslip, a farmer of Otikeho, N.1., was kil'ecl on the 14-th through tbe capszing of hi* trap.

A boy named Alexander Pefck sustained a fracture of the left kg by falling off a cheff • cuttor at Snttonon Saturday. Ho was brought to Dunedin by train and admitted to the hoßpitnl, where his injures were attended to.

On Saturday evening Viggo l^kke (18), a new arrival from D-nmirk, hanged himself in a cowshed at Tahoraifcn, N.I The body wes warm when found, but efforts to induce respiration failed. Hia toes were touciing the ground, as if the straightened knees had taken the strain <ff the rope. Bifore the jouth c»me Danevirke he twice Attempted suicide by poison and bunging.

Our Waipori correspondent writes that on Sunday Mr John Olafft-y. while wrestling playfully with ft friend, had his h-p broken below the knee. After tbe limb had b«?u lemr/orarily baodaged the st)fftrer was promptly removed to the Lawrenoe Hospital.