CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2320, 18 August 1898, Page 23

CASUALTIES.

Edward Tucker, while unloading coal fronS a hulk into the steamer Hawea at Wellington fell down the hold, a distance of 30ft, and disd in the hospital from a fractured skull and other injuries. He was a married man with a family. On Sunday Mrs Gill, wife of Mr Charles Gill, of Christchurch, was proceeding to church when she was taken ill in the street. She was conveyed to a house close by, but died shorty afterwards. She was 55 years of age. Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause of death. Andrew Nelson, about 70 years of age, was found dead in his hut, between Romahapa and Port Molyneux, on the evening of the 13th. He had evidently been dead some days. He was last seen alive on the 9th ins".. He lived alone, and had no friends or relatives in the colony. Robert Flick, 76 years of age, was found dead in his hut at Waihola on the 15th mst. Death is supposed to be due to natural causes. A- child, eight years of age, the daughter of John Mulrine, a settler at Romahapa, was so badly burned on the 13th inst, through her clothes catching fire, that she died oa the following evening. Mr James Mitchell, who resides at the corner of George and Dundas streets, was knocked down on Monday by a horse belonging to Mr W. Owen, which had bolted. Inspector Donaldson administered first aid, and Dr Martin subsequently attended Mr Mitchell, who, although badly bruised, had uot sustained a fracture of any of the liovuvs, notwithstanding the fact that one of tho wheels of the vehicle to which the horse wjs attached passed over him. A boy named Samuel M'Leod, in the employ ot 1 Mr Lawrence, butcher, had a fall from Las horse in High street on Monday, nnd received some cuts about the right knee, lie was taken to the hospital, where his injuries were attended to. The body of a new-born male child was found on Monday, enclosed in a bos, in a water hole alongside the Mataura River, about a mile north of Gore. During the voyage of the Rimutaka a seaman named Hansen fell from aloft ana was drowned.

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