CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2425, 5 September 1900, Page 44

CASUALTIES.

The six-year-old son of Mr Charles Hawson met with a singular accident a few days ago (says the Southland News). He was playing in the house with a pointed stick, which penetrated his face, below the cheek bone. Lockjaw set in, and, early on Tuesday morning, the little sufferer succumbed.

Tho five-year-old son of Mr Duncan M'Gregor, of Manaia, was killed on Thursday through a buggy, in which the child was riding with his parents, being overturned.

At Mangaweka, Wellington, on Thursday, Stephen Hall, aged 8, fell over a cliff, at a height of 300 ft, into the Rangilikei River. He was unconscious when picked up. At the time of the mishap he was playing with some other children, and tripped when trying to ro" a log over the bank. The boy died some time later. Particulars of the fatal tran accident at

Masterton, by which the son of Mr Duncan M'Gregor was killed, are to hand. They show that the horse shied in crossing a "stream, and went over the- bank .12tt into 3ft of water. The occupants were pinned down by the vehicle; but, fortunately, help was at hand, and some were rescued. The boy, however, was killed, and a baby had its skull fractured, its survival being considered hopeless. Mrs -U'Gvegor's right arm was broken above the wrist, and her back was injured. Mr M'Giegor was bruised and cut. The infant child has since died.

Williom Pace Hill, a railway porter, was killed at Helensville, Auckland, on Saturday whilst engaged in d 1 tinting a waggon and carriages after the arrival of the midday tiain. The truck fir-t cut o'.x hi j leg, and ho was then trying to move u'len the carriage parsed over his abdoiuej. An inquest y, as opened on Maluri 1«)1 «)3 r , ai.d adjovrncd till Wednesday. Dccenspcl wa-s aged 18.

Jeremiah Harrington, 23, a smoker on the warship Porpoise, was killed at 4 o'clock on Monda}' morning through falling from the third storey window of the Thames Hotel, in Queen street. Deceased, with two others, came to the hotel for a room late at night, and nothing further was known till themght porter saw something ila~h nast the window. He went out, and found Harrington on the pavement. His fcrehead was gashed, his nose broken, and there were also internal injuries. Dr King ordered his removal to the hospital, where he died at 6 o'clock last evening. It is supposed that he was walking in his sleep, or else searching for the lavatory in the dark.

An old-age pensioner named John Sheehan was found dead in his hut at Kaikoura, Hawke's Bay, on Sunday. There arc no suspicious circumstances.

Some human remains found at Eokatahi on Sunday have besn identified, by th& boots and portions of the Cardigan jacket found near by as those of Donald Woir, a setder vho had been missing for thr.ee years last June. 'Che remains were accidentally found by a parly cf j-oung ir-eii who were xabbitiiijj. When Weir was reported missing an sctive, but fruitless, search was made throughout the district. The remains were only about a mile away fiom the homestead. Shortly after beinp - missed a credible rumour was current tbat Weir had bc?ti Eoerv in the fstreals of Sydney. Many believed this to be true. An inque-t will be held.

Our Cromwell correspondent telegraphs that a. man named Duff, engineer on > the Magnetic dredge, had his arm broken on Sunday, through falling from a hor»e.