CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 23

CASUALTIES.

John Manhire, 43 years of age, and single, was found hanging by the neck to a tree in the parsonage grounds at Waikari, Canterbury, on the 14th. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned. Captain Gyatt, a master mariner, 65 years of age, was found dead in the Sailors' Home at Auckland in bed on Friday. He suffered from heart disease. . A man named Campbell, a bootmaker, was found drowned at New Brighton, Christchurch, on Friday afternoon. The body of David Walsh, a miner, 69 years of age, and married, who was recently discharged from the Auckland hospital, was found hanging from a tree at Freeman's Bay on Friday. He had been suffering from melancholia. At the inquest an open verdict was returned. John Cameron, miner, aged 58, has been missing from his home since Thursday. The Police, searching on Friday, discovered his body at the bottom of the Cambria shaft. An inqiiest was held on Friday night, when a verdict was returned "That deceased, John Cameron, was killed in tho Cambria shaft, Thames, by throwing himself down the said shaft during a temporary state of insanity, arising from illness." An old man named T. Flynn died suddenly at the hospital, Palmerston N. while chloroform was being administered preparatory tc an operation for the removal of his eye. An inquest is being held-jon Saturday. Deceased served in thfe sth- Fusiliers and during the Maori war, in the 65th regiment News has been received of the death by accident at Zeehan, Tasmania, of Theodore Cameron, a compositor, whose parents reside in Dunedin, where the young man learnt his trade. It appears deceased was practising gymnastics when he fell heavily from a horizontal bar on which he was performing and, despite the fact that there was a mattress on the floor, he received injuries which resulted in his death. Deceased waa 23 years of age. Information was received by telegram from Picton to-day that it was reported there that a settler named John Landall left Diffenbach for his home at Onahau at 1 p.m. on Friday lasb, and has not been seen since. It was blowing hard at th 3 time, and it is supposed that he has been drowned. Several boats are out searching for the missing man, who leaves a v.'ife and two children. Edwin Barry, forty-five years of \ge, residing with a Malay native in a hut at the Maori pa at Kaiapoi, died suddenly op Monday.

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— One of the newest things in the building line is the aluminium hut. A Pennsylvania firm is said to be making this article for the Klondyke miners. When packed for carriage it weighs 1101b. It is composed of four sides and a roof of thin sheets of aluminium, and when put up the house contains 190 cubic feet. — Tobacco and soap in the navy are served out to the men together. Of the second named they are allowed to take a practically unlimited amount, but of tobacco a sailor is only allowed to purchase 21b, duty free, per month. It is usually served out in leaf, and the whole 21b Jack generally rolls into one huge cigar, from which he cuts off what he requires. — When Elizabeth ascended the throne, the English flag had only once or twice gone farther than to Archangel in the north and Scanderoon in the Levant. Before her death, ships bearing her flag, and manned by her subjects, had "prowled with hostile keel" in all tho seas of the world ; and her merchants were preparing to open a permanent trade with the Easfc Indies, while English colonists had established a footing on tho continent of North America-. •