CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 28

CASUALTIES.

The body of an old man, supposed to be Isaac Kelly, was found in Auckland harbour. At the inquest oil the body of Harry Feast, who died through injuries sustained through falling off the Sumner tram, a, verdict was returned of " Accidental death. A man named T Whall had a remarkable cscapo from drowing at Wanganui. Be was working on a small oil launch. It was a pitch dark night, and. going on board at 11.30, he slipped on the ladder and fell into the river, striking the side of lv's face against the side of the launch in his descent. He lost conseiou-ness, and did not regain it till 3 next morning, when he found himself up to his neck in water. It is feared that serious injury has bean done to his eye. Whall has been taken to the hospital. Daniel Gallagher, aged 55 years, was found: dead in bed .it Waimahaka on Friday morning. He had been in the Southland Hospital for three weeks,, and for two clays before his death had stayed at Mr John Templeton's. Dr Hendry certified the cause o£ death to be heart disease, and an inquest was therefore not necessary. Gallagher had been in the district 20 year*, latterly at Waikav/a. where he had a farm. R. E. Dowhng, teacher at Port Fitzroy, Great Barrier, committed suicide by cutting; his throat. His wife resides at New Plymouth. George Booker, a bushman, was drowned in the Waiotu Creek, neai Whangarei, on. the Bth inst., when rafting timber. Tho body has not been recovered. Our Naseby correspondent writes: — "Mr John Murray, who met with an accident in, his claim a few days ago, died in the hospital on Tuesday morning. It was not; anticipated that fatal results would have followed, but a bad turn took place on Sunday, ending a« stated. Mr Murray was a very much respected resident, and his dec-ease at p comparatively early ago is deplored on all sides." An hihald Fcrgu-on. a wharf labourer, met with a plight accident while unloading coal on the Comma on Wednesday evening. A large piece- of coal fell on his head, inflicting- a severe cut. Ho went to tiie Hospital, where it was found necessary to stitch up the wound. At Auckland on Thursday afternoon tht dead bodies of two men were found floating off Fieeman's Bay Reclamation. They probably lo^t their lives during the night or early in the morning, the supposition being that they were returning from a yacht anchoied further put in a dingey, which capsized. The men were subsequently identified as Charles Sayer* and Alexander Moore, both drapers. Further inquiries showed that the men left for the yacht in a small dingey, intending: to go for a sail: They were seen to board the boat and .-ail down the harbour, and the yacht returned in the e\^ning, but no one caw the young men put off for the shore. It is presumed, however, that the deceased, neither of whom oould swim, were capsized when pulling ashore in the dingey. Sayers has two brothers in Taianaki. On Saturday the body of an elderly man named John Brooks was found in a tank in the Chnstf hurch railway station. De-tea-ed had only been released from Lyttelton Gaol on Thursday after serving a sentence of six mouths for obtaining money by fal?e pretence 3 . Inquiry at tiie Hoj-pital elicits that Mrs Dowden, the victim of the recent accident in High street, is progressing very favourably indeed towards recovery. At Huk-erenui, Auckland, an accident happened, re-ulting in the drowning of George Brooker. Ho wa« rafting logs in tho Waiotu River, when Ins pole slipped and he fell in. A man named Canning committed suicide a- Huntenille, N 1., on Friday. George Newman, married, while working a threshing machine at Nelson, had his right hand drawn in and mangled. The limb had to be amputated at the wrist. The t!iree-ancl-a-half-year-old child of Mr Newnham fell into a tub of hot pponge at a bakehouse, Ohoka, Canterbury, and wa3 .scalded so severely that it died. An ok' -age pensioner named Ralph Nicholson, aged 84, was found dead in his hut at Ngapara on morning. Recently deceased had been suffering from asthma, and before that Dr MAdam attended him. at the beginning of the year for another complaint. It is not thought necessary to hold an inquest, senile decay and chronio disorders being apparently the cause of. death. — Oamaru Mail.

—Of 30,000,GG0 emigrants frcm Europe during the la-t ceutury. more than one-tl"^ ■>ma i3ritiifaa