CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 21

CASUALTIES.

A girl named Meares was seriously burned at Reefton on Tuesday, 3rd inst., through hor clothes catching fire, and her life is despaired of. Her father was burned in extinguishing the dames. A Wyndham correspondent writes: — Mr James Linton, formerly a cheese maker at Mataura, dropped down dead in the street at Wyndham. from heart disease. | M'Clusky, the driver of a hansom cab, met with an accident in Princes street on Saturday, being thrown out ot his vehicle, which turned over as he was trying to avoid | running into an express at the corner of j Jetty street. He "was, however, not seriously injured. The body of a man named Alexander Patrick was found at Clyde on Saturday morning, and an inquest was to have been ! held on the remains in the afternoon. j It is not always well to have a legacy I in prospect. Last week (says the Mount Ida Chronicle) a man named Charles Leys, hailing from Waimate, in joyful anticipation of a legacy, got too much Hquor, an indiscretion which might have cost him ] hi& life, for -while under its influence he j attempted to cut his throat. He appeared j with a gash in his throat at Kyeburn dig- j gings to the no small alarm, we are told, j of some of its women and children. Thence j Mr Moses Brown conveyed him to the Naseby Hospital, where, after an operation by Dr Hall, he is making satisfactory prcrgress. Fortunately, although he had cut I the wind-pipe, the patient had missed the larger blood vessels. Three young Taamanians went out shooting the other day, each carrying a gun, and while trying to separate their dogs, which were fighting, the dogs knocked Ocwan's gun from his hand, causing it to go off, the charge hitting Mills's gun, which caused it to also explode, the charge entering Mills's stomach. The unfortunate Jiad only lived 30 minutes after the accident. A fanner named John Wrennell, 55 years of age, committed suicide at Chevalier Point, Auckland, on Thursday of last week, by hanging himself. He was living apart from his wife and family, who resided half a mile off. The man hung himself in a cowshed with a window sash cord, and from the a})pearance and condition of the body he must have committed the deed on Thursday. He leaves a widow and giown-up family of three sons and a daughter. He had been drinking recently. The body of a man, identified as Patrick Faulis, of Richmond, Christchurch, was found floating in the Wellington Harboui. He was formerly a farmer, but latterly had been gaining his living as a hawker. The deatli is announced of Mr H. R. Bcman, auctioneer, aged 41 years. For the past 20 rears the deceased had been closely identified with a number of local organisations, and took great interest in rowing matters. Mrs T. Osbnrne Hay, whe till a feAV weeks ago resided at Te Raki, Chatham Islands, died here on Sunday. She was well known in Lyttelton, where her husband was in business in the early days. David Dun, one of the best known farmers in the Gore district, tripped over the water table on his farm on Saturday evening and broke his neck. He came to the colony 19 years ago from Perthshire under

engagement to the late Hon. W. J. M. Larnach to manage "The Camp." James Lawson, aged eight, the son of a Waikaka siding faz-mer, was playing before a fire in his nightshirt on Sunday morning wlule his mother was out milting. The shirt oaught fire, and the boy, who was severely burned, died at 2 o'clock next morning. The body of the late Robert Johnson, who was drowned on Good Friday, was found on Monday afternoon floating in the lower harbour, and was brought to Port Chalmers and conveyed to the morgue, where it awaits an inquest. David Kelly, a labourer, 67 years of age, was found dead in his garden- at Milton at 10 "o'clock on Monday morning. Death Is supposed to have been due to heart disease.