CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2303, 21 April 1898, Page 19

CASUALTIES.

A narrow e^cwe from drowning o?»tt;7red on Tuesday, the 12vh, to Archibald M-CV-^ack; aged about 13. By some nu»ns he. fell eff tae jfitty at Z!r Innte's flsh-e-n-ing establishment, anc? s-nr.asged to- get Isold cf one of the piles, but was unable to g«"; on lo tb.f jetty. His cries for assistance were hnsrd by two young girls named Isinis and Weir, who at once proceeded to tha spot and got a' rope, which they put down for M'Cormack to put round him until they got a boat, which was lying about 100 yards away, and they succeeded, after some difficulty, in getting M'Cormack into the boat, he being at the time in rather an exhausted state. Too much praise cannot be . bestowed on the two girls for their presence of mind in getting the rope round M'Cdrmack before running to get the boat, as in all probability he would not have been able to bave retained his hold round the pile. At the inquest on the body of Jane Margaret Rhodes, aged two years and seven month?, killed on the Kahu railway at Auckland, the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death," adding a rider that more care should be exercised by guardians in keeping children off the railway platform. When the Tutanekai was leaving Westport on Monday evening, 11th inst., with the Nelson and Maflborough volunteers a dreadful accident happened. Mr Hunter, chief officer of the steamer, was attending to a ropa at the bow of the veasel. He got his left leg entangled in the ropes, and when the strain was put on it the leg was taken off just above the ankle. The steamer returned to the ataiths, and Mr Hunter was taken to the hospital, where he was attended to. The volunteers from Nelson and Marlborough subscribed £42 for Mr Hunter's benefit. Colonel Moore was run over by a cab at Chriatchurch whila returning from the camp on the 11th. He was found to be extensively bruised, but not seriously injured. At the inquest on T. W. Warswick, quartermaster cf the Rimutaka, it was shown that dsceased was very short-sighted, and also under the influence of liquor when he went ashore. The jury returned a verdict of "Found drowned," and added a rider "That the Harbour Board should erect stanchions at the sharp corners of the wharf which were dangerous at - night." Warswick, who held a master's certificate, leaves a wife in Cairo and a married daughter in England. "Jim" Stevenson, livery stable keener and a well-known eabdriver, aged about 30 years, committed suicide at Gisborno on Thursday afternoon by taking carbolic acid. He had lately been drinking heavily. An elderly man named Jamei Weir died at the hospital on Thursday as a result of a fractured leg sustained in an accident at Catlin's River ia the early part of this monthf Mr Carew," coroner, opened an inqueot on the body yesterday afternoon, and after the evidence of the doctor and the nurse had been taken the inquest was adjourned till the 20th. A boy named Herbert Brown, employed on * dairy farm at Upper Junction, was driving in that locality on Thursday when by some means he fell out of tb« cart, and the wheel passed over and fractured his left leg. He was taken to the hospital. Daniel Herlihy, a young man, while giving his horse, swimming exercise in the Otaki River, Wellington, was drowned. The body has been - recovered, Mary Ann Codling, 60 years of age, the wife of a labourer, at Auckland, committed suicide on Saturday by cutting her throat with a pooket knife. She had been ailing for some time, and had frequently threatened to make away with herself. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of *• Suicide .whila temporarily insane:" Wm. Bennett, aged about 65, an Omahu settler, Thames, died suddenly "on Monday in the Magistrate's Court while giving evidence in the case of Crane v. the Thames County Council. The supposed cause is heart disease. James M'Kenzie, aged 38, while hauling logs cut of the bush at Colac Bay with an engine, met with a fatal accident. The cant hook, gave way and flew forward, penetrating his side, and the iron plate struck him violently ia the abdomen. M'KeDzie died on Monday. Ha was a married man, with five of a family.