CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2437, 28 November 1900, Page 44

CASUALTIES.

A young man named Wicks died at Levin on the 20th inst. from injuries received while bush felling. A reference in the industrial dispute has ibeen filed between, the Auckland Seamen's Industrial Union of Workers and the Master. Tanners' Association. The subject matter in dispute is the number of weekly working hours, wages, holidays, and number of apprentices. Anent the difficulty at the Brunner mine, the Wcstport Times says that after a number of •deputations had met the management of the mine and discussed the position of affairs at great length, in reference to the difficulty there, a satisfactory settlement has been arrived at. The notices to dispense with a number of men will be cancelled, the shift will be kept on, and work proceed as usual. A little boy of six years, son of a labourer named Redmond, was killed instantaneously at the railway yard on the 21st inst. He was crossing the yard at the moment the south express was passing, and somehow got in the way of a train shunting on the next line. The head was nearly severed from the body. Last Wednesday night a shunter named William Blay, while at work in the station yard at Invercargill, was run down by a carriage and terribly mangled, dying a few minutes after. It is not known whether he fell in front of a moving carriage, or was knocked down, the a moving carriage or was knocked down, the night being dark and boisterous. Deceased was married, and leaves a widow and one daughter. He had been here about four years, and, as a member of the City Band, took part irf the flag unfurling at the South School in the forenoon. A boy named Archibald Noonan, in the employ of Messrs Duder Bros., racehorse owners, at Devonport, was kicked on. the head while dressing a horse. The skull was crushed, and the lad died in 10 minutes. A married woman named Eliza Jane Codlin, admitted to the hospital on the 14th inst., i died on the 21afc in&t.- The circumstances connected with her illness are such that an inquest was considered necessary. After evidence of identification, the inquest was adjourned till to-morrow. A fatal accident is reported to nave occurred at Whanaki, the victim being a man named William Montagu. He was crushed by a log which rolled over him, and died from the injuries received. A Kaukapapa settler, Henry De Harcourt Johnstone, shot himself about 9 o'clock on Thursday morning on the landing reserve at Kaukapapa Bridge. Deceased had been troubled with paralysis for two years. A married woman named Helen Macdonald died suddenly at Longpoint, Ratanui, on Thursday. She was 65 years of age, and death is believed to be due to natural causes. George Henwood, aged 24, whilst catching a horse at Eltham on the 24-th inst., seized the rope, when the horse galloped off, dragging Henwood, whose foot got entangled in ths rope, after it. He died a quarter of an hour after from his injuries. Both ankles were broken. He was battered and bruised all over, and had his clothes torn from his body. An inqiiest was held at Christchurch on Saturday on the body of Annie Maria Mitley, 51 years of age, who died irf the hospital. There was a suspicion that a blow in the abdomen which she had received from a man she was living with had more or less directly caused death, but this was not supported by the evidence, and the coroner directed the jury to that effect. A. slight accident happened in the Wellington Polo Club's practice match on Saturday, when, owing to a collision, Mr Skerrett, the well-known barrister, had his collarbone fractured: Mr Skerrett attended the Supreme Court on Monday, he being engaged as leading counsel for the defence in the Stoke" School cases. Hugh Findlay was admitted to the hospital on Saturday night, and was found to be in a very bad plight, the result of one of four horses he was driving kicking out at him when he went to adjust the harness while in the vicinity of Burnside. He was tinconscious when picked up by some passer-by and brought to the hospital, where it was ascertained that he had two or" three ribs broken, and his face was badly cut. It was found necessary to put six or seven stitches in the wound in the face. He is afr present getting on all right. An elderly man named Thomas Cavanagh. employed at the Hillside Workshops, met with an accident on Monday afternoon which necessitated his being removed to the hospital. He was underneath a railway waggon, which he was repairing, when some other waggons were shunted along the line. These came in contact with that under which he was at work, with the result that Cavanagh, who had his leg through the wheel at the •moment, sustained a compound fracture of the right leg, besides having some toes of the left foot taken off. * •A labourer named James Moveland had his left leg broken on Monday morning. He was .riding a horse near the gasworks, when the animal slipped on the rails and fell on him. The man was taken to the hospital.