CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2399, 22 February 1900, Page 21

CASUALTIES.

The Southland Times reports that George Gilbert Kennedy, 18 years of age, was killed in a gravel pit at Springhills on the 14th inst. by a tall of earth. A man who was working in the pit did not the accident, but when he turned round he saw Kennedy pinned against a wheel. He went to give assistance, but the young man never apoke.

The body of Charles A. Deacon, a wellknown commission agent, was found in the

harbour, Wellington, alongside Jervois quay. He was last seen on the wharf at 1 o'clock on the 13th, and his body was found about 6 o'clock. The decea<ed, who was well and popularly known in shipping circles, some two years ago fell in the harbour while in a fit, and it is feared that he was seized with another fit once more. At the inquest nothing was adduced throwing light on the cause of the accident, and an open verdict was returned. An old man named Stephen Spencer, a Swanson settler, was found dead in Jus

kitchen. He was single, and had no relatives in the colony.

A telegram from Blenheim states that Hilmia Silvius, aged 17, a daughter of Harry Silvius, attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself over the Opawa railway bridge. She was rescued and handed over to her father.

Mrs, Crouch, aged 60 years, wife of a small farmer named C. Crouch, of Cambridge, who came from Waikato to attend a scries of faith-healing lectures, dropped dead in Auckland on her way to a meeting. It is believed she suffered from heart disease. C. Duncan, foreman with the Wellington Meat Export Co., was thrown from hih horse at Petone on Sunday night, and had his skull fractured and his collar-bone broken. His condition is serious.

An inquest was held at Stratford on Saturday to inquire into the death of the three-year-old son of Mr Smith, of Hastings road. The child was found with his head downwards in a milk can, which was half full of water and standing outside his father's house. A verdict of " Accidental death and that no one was to blame "' was returned.

A man named Teliff Eilversen, aged 36, cook of the barque Sirrah, was drowned in the river at Westport on Thursday night (says the Weslport Times). He had been ashore, and had gone aboard the vessel, but returned to the wharf, when he fell into the stream. The accident was observed by some of the crew, and a rope was thrown to the man, but he failed to grasp it, and before anything ehe could be done he had disappeared. He leaves a wife and family at his birthplace, Grimstaal, Norway.