CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2310, 9 June 1898, Page 17

CASUALTIES.

Robert Ander?on, r singM saan, 30 year* ol age, employed .1 th*> BirehwoetJ estate, wai burned to death in his hut on the 30th ult.

George Maunder was riding to Hokitika froi* Kanieri oo the night of the 30th ult. on a. bicycle wben his machine struck some obstacle and the rider was thiown on his head. Ha Jingered all day, and died next morning withx out recovering consciousness. He was about 22 years of age, and single. At Christchurch a girl named Mary Sears, aged 19 years, is reported to have disappeared mysteriously. She was employed as a domestic servant by Mr A, S. Taylor, caretaker at East Christchnrch Primary School. On Thursday afternoon *he left the house at 2 o'clock to go for a walk, and h»B not since been heard of. The cape she was wearing was found tied to the rails of the New Brighton pier on Thursday night at 8 o'clock, with money and a tram ticket" in the pocket. Search parties were looking all day Saturdy and on Sunday for the body but without ruccess. Her hat, however, was picked up on the beach between Sumner and New Brighton. On Snnd&y, while searching just above high water, the body was found of a single man named Samuel Parker, aged 35 yean, at one time caretaker for the Union Rowing Club. He has been missing for a week, and as he was subject to fits it is thought be died in one of these while walking along the beach.

On the 3rd inst. during the passage of the Northern Company's s*ieaaa«r Patiki (Captain W. Garrett) from Pareora to Shortland, Robert Floyd was drowned. The deceased was a coloured man, about 20 years of age, and a native of Brooklyn (N.Y.). He had been cook on the Patiki for thrae weeks, was single, and had no relatives in the colony. At the inquests this morning a vsrdict of " Accidentally drowned'' wes returned.

The passeDgers arriving in town by the High-cliff-Sandymount 'bus on Thursday morning had a somewhat lucky escape from serious injury. After the 'bus had rounded Mr Ross's corner and was passing near Professor Parker's late residence the horses took fright at a traction engine. They ran up a s>'ight bank, and the coach was captJzed. The occupant* were thrown out, several sustaining slight bruises, but all managed to come into town with the exception of two ladies belonging to Sandymount. Miss Forbes sustained a circular lacerated wound on her left temple about 2in long, while Mies M 'Kay had several small bones of her left foot broken. They were removed to the residence of Mr Gilmour, Constable Martin securing the services of Dr Barnett.. The side of the coach fas also smashed.

Charles Lowhe, steward on the Wakatu, died suddenly at Wellington on Friday from the bursting of a blood vessel in the brain.

A boy named Henry Edmond received a distressing flesh wound through getting his hand in come m*chinory at Wright's bakery on Friday. The flesh wan taken off the hand from the wriat to the centre of the palm, bat happily no banes were broken. He was taken to the hotpital, where the wound was dressed.

The body of Mr John Flanagan, of Oreti Fiat, who was drowned in the Oreti River the previous week, was found on Thursday some two miles below the place at which it is supposed he was drowned. It was found on a gravel bed and partly silted over. William Woodhouse, a married man and a labourer, aged 59, died suddenly at the Sydenham Working Men's Club on Saturday afternoon.

A waggoner named Miskell wan badly shaken - up by the capsizing of his waggon at Bendigo at the end of last week. He has gone to the Cromwell Hospital. Three of the horses were killed.

John Clark, 67 years of age, diad suddenly at his residence at Outram on Friday night. The deceased had been attended by Dr Cattan for valvular disease of the heart. Edmond Gray, cook on the steamer Ngunguru, fell over the wharf at Auckland on Satnrday night and was drowned.

Private advice reports that William Alexander Clarke, 33 years of ag«, single, was killed at Paeroa sawmill, Wellington, on Monday after* noon.

While a man named Alexander Gilmour, living at Kaikoura, was heating * dynamite cartridge in the fire on Monday it exploded. Gilmour had his wife and two children with him at the time. Gilmour and the children were badly damaged.

A youth 18 years of age, named Raymond Suckling, was admitted into the hospital on Monday suffering from a fracture of the right leg, caused by being kicked by a cow while working in a byre at Maori Hill.

News was received by telephone at Invercargill on Sunday that Mr John C. Campbell, •tationmaiter at Winton, had died suddenly, after a day's illness.