CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2524, 30 July 1902, Page 30

CASUALTIES.

A man named James Watts was smothered under some coal at the Auckland gasworks. He seems to have got into a sort of extavation, and the coal fell en him. When* dis covered life was extinct.

A man named JoLa M'Kenzie, a storekeeper, at Femhill, Hawke's Bay, is reported as missing, and diligent serach is being made for him. It appears that M'Kenzie, who Bias not been enjoying the best of health lately, has been stopping at the Marine Parade Hotel for the last few days. He (went to bed as usual on the 21st, but was jivissed about 2 o'clock next morning. It is (feared that he may have made away with {himself. i John Malloy's walking-stick was picked up •100 yards above the CcaJ Creek railway fcridge, Grey Kiver. He has been missing for a fortnight, and is supposed to have (fallen into" 'the river. This is the first trace ©£ the missing man found. * iL man named Peter Nicolson, a cro3siagIceoper -connected with the Gore railway etaS, wag* the victim of^a fatal accident on the 22nd. While attending to the points at iMerry street crossing he was knocked down fay a shunting engine and dragged along c*» the cow-catcher for some distance. He exnired a few minutes after being picked up. Mis leg was badly mutilated and his hips crushed, the injuries causing death in a few moments. It is presumed that deceased, who was slightly deaf, failed to hear the approaching engine. Before coming to Gore Nicolson was employed in the Dutiedin yard. He was 67 years of age, and leaves a wife and one sou.

The body of a man was found on the beach three miles above Beaumont on the Elst. The body is not recognisable, but it is believed to be that of Karry Bowling, caretaker of the Golden Chain's dredging pontoaas at Anderson's Flat, he having been missing Eiuce the 19th of January. John Woodward, 63 year- of age. a farmer at Springston, Canterbury, is reported to have committed suicide on Wednesday morning by hanging himself to a tree near his house.

A man named John Burnett, 67 years of age, an old-age pensioner, was found dead in his chair in Christchurch on the 23rd.

A sad accident happened to the two-year-old child of Mr Blackley. Waimate. The child was playing in the father's yard, when a liorss kicked out and struck the child on the forehead. The child is uot expected to recover.

A young man named William Foley, an apprentice in the firm of J. Wren and Co.. Princes street, was engaged yesterday working at one of the office windows damaged •by> the fire on Sunday, when he slipped and fell to the cement floor beneath, sustaining a compound fracture of the right leg. The sufferer was attended to by Dr M-- Macdonald. and subsequently removed to tii e Hospital.

Last week Sirs Lowe, wife of Mr E. W. Lowe, librarian at the Thames Public Library, met with a very painful accident. She was in her backyard when she accidentally tripped and fell forward, and in doing so struck her right arm against a bench, with the result that she broke her arm just above the wrist.

Mrs Mason, a young woman, wife of Mr D. J. Mason, a painter, was found dead in her bed at Christchurch It appears that she had been suffering from biliousness, and last evening complained of pains in her head At 3 o'clock thk morning Mrs Mason told Iher husband to put the ga6 out as sh» wished to sleep. At 5 o'clock, when Mason woke, he found h«r dead beside him Au inque3t was held this afternoon, when a verdict of death from acute pneumonitis was returned. Mrs Mason kept a private asylum, in which Mrs Styche was confined at the time her husband was sentenoed to seven yeara' imprisonment for attempting to poison her.

A boy named Frederick Chris-tie was re-r-eived into the Hospital on Saturday, suffering from a fractured arm received whilo playing football. The broken limb hay ing been set, the lad left for his home. i A Maori named Henii Omukite, residing a& Waingoro, filled a lead pipe with gun,powder and applied a light to it. The pipe rebounded and pfcruck him on the forehead, billing him instantly.

While hunting with the Egmont and Wanzanui Hunt Club hounds on Wednesday. Mr •W. G. White, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, fame down after his hort-e had negotiated a stiff jump, and sustained a somewhat serious injury, one arm being badly smashed at the elbow.

A girl named Telford, aged about eig-ht pears, was missing from her home at Gore on Wednesday. Search parties failed to discover her whereabouts until Thumlay. when ■'che missing girl was found in the Mataura River, near the abattoirs. She wa9 deaf and dumb.

A young man named Aflmr Bateman, a blacksmith residing at Waitahuna. was admitted to the Hospital on Thursday suffering from a severe injury sustained to the left eye while working, through t\m flying-up of a piece of iron. It is doubtful if the .<-i<rht o r the eve can be sav3d.

A labourer named Patrick M 'Gavin, employed od the co-operative work? at Poolburn, was taken to the Naseby Hospital on th& 21st as the result of an act ideut that morning while nssistiug to charge a bore with gelienite. Finding the cartridge hard, lie placed it on a stone and attempted to loosen it with the heel of one of hi.- boot>, but it exploded and blew a portion of bis boot off Fortivcatelv, the foot escaped injury, but the thock caused considerable pain in M'Gavin's fool and leg.

Henry Woston. bootmaker. °hot himself through the head at Auckland by menus of a -c-volver in a bedroom of h\t> own hcu-e. H^ was Tnarri'-cl ami lppvea two cVuidreii

An old re^ioVnt Mr- .1-.rr>p= Lawrence--«r£"= found dead in her bed at Napier on Friday morning, it i- "upr-oscd. from heart ri.ca-".

A boy, seven year- of a^. named Carter. w°iose parents if-Itle at Caver-ha:. . v ;iadtpirted to th« Hospital om Fn<:.i .-. 1,.w.i? bfoken hi^ arm while p'avin:; focitba'l wi'li other lad". The Linb \\a- -it, afier which hp proceeded honi" A youns: man named Robert (io»vir, i.' tiding in Russell street, was atimitt^'l t< tlip Hospital oh Friday afternoon suffering from R-mistyß -misty out in -'the forehead, sustained by a kick from a horse. He was driving the

animal down Upper York place, when it slipped and fell, and when on the ground la?hed out, with the above lesult. The wound was attended to, and the sufferer proceeded home.

John Marshall, a well-known resident of Pine Hill, was admitted to the Hospital on Friday suffering from an injured foot. It appears he was felling a tree in the neighbourhood, and in falling the tree slipped back and came on to his foot, crushing some of the smaller bones. More serious results are not expected. A man about 40 years of age, who=e name is unknown, was found in an Auck n and street in an unconscious state. He subsequently died at the hospital. The cause of death is not at present known. At the Pakuranga Hunt Club's run on Saturday Mrs E. D. O'Rorke fell with her horse when going over a high hedge, and the rider had her collar-bone broken

A carpenter named Charles Wright, aged 49, died suddenly at Wellington. He was working at a house in Oriental Bay, and after intimating to the inmates of the premises that he would expire, sat down on a chair in the kitchen and succumbed, it is supposed from heart disease. An accident that might easily have had a fatal termination occurred at Roxburgh to Mrs Ryan. As she was out for a walk she ventured near the old reservoir, and while there tock> a fit and rolled into the water. Luckily she was seen by Mr Arch. Kitto. who happened to be passing, and who immediately took her out and procured medical assistance, and she has now quite recovered. On Thursday last an imbecile boy named John Wilkie was missed from his home at Glenomaru. A search party, assisted by the Owaka police, at once set out to look for him, but discovered no trace until Sunday, when his body was found in a creek in the bu9h about two miles from his home. The unfortunate lad's neck was broken, caused, no doubt, by the fall down the bank of the stream.