CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2299, 24 March 1898, Page 19

CASUALTIES.

A gumdigger named Alexander T)? Noin committed suicide by banging himself at Aoroa, near Mangawhare. He wss found hanging to the ridge pole cf a whare, and had evidently been dead some time. At the inquesb it was j stated that De Noon was very disheartened an > his want of success on the gumfields. „ For the last few weeks he had only got abou l ; 41b of ', gum per day, worth about 7d a pound. He waa [ a native of Inverness, Scotland, and un- ; married. A verdict wa3 returned that deceased | committed suicide by hanging whilst of unsound mind. A woman named Mrs Flanagan recently tried at Paeroa, Auckland, to commit suicide by swallowing a number of match heads. When she wan discovered she was lying under a willow tree on the Ohinemuri River, and appeared to be suffering a good deal of pain. Dr Buckley did all he could to destroy the effecti of the poisor>, with the result that the woman is now considered out of danger. She is, however, in a very bad state, longing for death. Her husband, who is living in close proximity to the Thames, has several times been brought up before the court for main- | tenance, and Bird Flanagan and her children ) are in very destilu'e circurnsbtnees, As the I battle of life waa too mush for her, she thought she would end all by swallowing the match heads. She says she is tired of life, and wants to die. She was taken to the Thames Hospital, and has slightly improved, but is very '■ despondent. An old man named George Clayton, who wss j suffering trom cancer, poisoned himself with a solution of match heads in the refuge ab Napier on the 15bh.' A Canterbury farmer named W. H. Wiiliameon committed suicide on Thursday at Papanui. He tied a string to his foot and, fastening the other end to the trigger of a shotgun, blew hi 3 brains out. He was a married man. So far bo | reason has been assigned for the deed. 1 An accident occurred at Christchurch on | Thursday by which a girl named Sparks, two years old, was killed. A horse attached to a dogcart bolted, and when opposite the sidewalk where the child was standing the carb capsized and fell over her. The horse continuing its mad gallop dragged her about a mile. When picked up she was terribly mutilated. A man named Henry Sayers was brought into town by the south train on the 17th for admission to the hospital. He waa falling timber in the Clutha for the purpose of splitting into posts, -' when a tree falling in the opposite direction from fchftt anticipated by him struck him,

• causing a fracture of the left leg. Sayers is 80 p years old, and notwithstanding bis advanced s age is progretsing favourably. : The police have returned to Napier from Mohaks, and report that the body found on th* t beach is unrecognisable ; but it could not be ihsfc i of Charles Wright, as it must have been in the • water for several months. The country was so i prec ; pitouT that the body had to be buried : whtre ib was found. i The body of William Gray was found on Fri1 day morning on a projection in a cliff 150ffc above the Napier brt-akwatpr. An inquesr. rei suited in a verdict that while suffering from i insomnia the deceased mistook hig way and accidentally fall over the cliff. A Waimate resident named David Gunn mcl with a fatal accident on Saturday at Hak*.teramea. His father, a farmer in tho district, lofb for the Ducedin celebrations on Sacarday, ' and could not be traced from Waimate. A sad accident occurred at Giaborne on Satur- > day morning, resulting in the death of Master Vincent Pyke, son cf Mr Vincent Pyke, > maaager of the Bmk of New Zealand. Master Pyke bad been in illhealth for come time past, and found the heat; in his bedroom very trying, so much so that a few days since he intimated his iatention oE getting up and opening the window from the top. He was told never to attempt to do so, lest he might get a chill, but always to call his father ; but the lad, who had expressed a deeire to save hii father trouble, had apparently got up and attempted to open the window himself. In doing so he over-balanced and fell some distance to the pavement beneath, sustaining a fracture of the skull. His father heariog a noice in the room wens in, and to h;a great dismay found that his son h*d met with the osishap described, which resulted in death. The body of a man, who wai apparently middle-aged, was found in an advanced stage of decomposition in a ditch near the Park racecourse. Gisbcnie. It was' totally unrecognisable, and there w»s nothing about the clofehiog by which it c.»n be identified. There was a bottle half-full of rum by his side and a hymn book ia his pocket. No one is known to cave heau missing. During the passage of the Corinna from Wellington John G-ilpm, a wharf lumper of Ljtteltoti, committed suicide by jainpiiig overboard. He was at one time landlord «r the Governor's Bay Hotel. The ship stopped, and a boat -wa.3 1 promptly lowered, but Gilpia was dead when l the body was picked up. j At Ponsonby, Miss She&th, a youDg lady of 19 years, the daughter of Mr Sheath, who is a partner with Mr D. ,&. MacDonnell, sharebroker, Auckland, while melting beeswax and turpentine on a gas stove, got badly burned, and ia in a critical condition. A woman named Margaret Bill, aged 50 years, who resides at the Kaikorai, sustained a fracture ot the left leg on Sunday through falling while she was walking along with the aid of a stick. She was conveyed to the hospital, where the broken member was set. ' The Oaauira Mail reports that two miles this ', side ot Hskafcaramea, a dray laden with timber, ; which was being driven by a man darned I)un».>, cspaized fend fell on him on Saturday. He was buried amongst the timber, and killed almost instantly. Dunn was a native cf "Waimate. An elderly woman, named Margaret Treloar. who resided with her husband in Cumberland street, near the Victotia Hotel, died suddenly on Monday morning. An inquest was heid in tha afternoon, at which a verdict that deceased died from natural causes was returned. A mm n»mi.d Samuel M'Carrigan met with a terrible accident while travelling to Dunedin, by train on the north line on Mond&y night. Ia some way, wh ; ch he explains by saying that 1 he was knecked off, he fell eff a platform between Mihiwaka and IPorfc Chalnier?, and the train paused over both his legs, smashing them frightfully. He was removed to tha hospital on his arrival in town, and both lirnb3 i were amputated early on Tuesday morning. He is a single man, 22 years of age, and lives ia , Walker street. Slender hopes are entertained of his recovery. A MYSTEIiIOUS DEATH. A young girl named Rose Dysaskie, 16 years : of age, whoie parents reside at Allantot), was : found dead iir a paddock by Mr John Wrouble : and others on Saturday. She had been on a visib to her sister at Keith Hail, East Taieri, in the afternoon, and made a start ta return home about 8 o'clock ia the evening, going through the fields. Shojtly afterwards two mea parsing along the road heard groans from a paddock, and on going to the place from which the sound came found, the girl evidently in great pain. They proposed to take her home, but ab her solicitation they allowed her to remain whera she was. Some little time after that the of Mr Wrouble was attracted by tha sight of the girl's bedy, and she was then dead. The body was examined by Dr Cattan, but thera was no external evidence of the cause cf de^tb, and there i 3 no suspicion of foul play. The coroner has been informed of the matter and has desired that a post mortem examination should bo made prior to the inquest. The human system can endure beat of 212deg, the boiling point of water, because the ekin is a ' bid conductor and because the perspiration cools the body. Men have withstood without injury a beat of 300deg for several minutes. Rev, Mark Minier, a Dunkard minister o£ Deckers Point, Pa , Bays ha can recommend Chamberlain's Pain Balm to anyone in need 08 a good liniment, and that he considers it the best he has ever used. Pain Balm is especially valuable for rheumatism, lame back, sprains, swellings, cuts, bruises, burns, and scalds. 14 is one of the most remarkable medicines in exis> , , tence, and its effects will both surprise and delight .you, tor sale by all lending chemisti.