CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2539, 12 November 1902, Page 30

CASUALTIES.

A young man named Williams, -a native of Hokitika, about 21 years of age, fell over a cliff 30ft high while proceeding . from " Burnett's Face, on the Kiwi seotion of the Westport Coal Company's mines, on Monday night. He landed on a rocky ledge .and. from there rolled into the creek. Two mates, on their way to work at 11 p.m.j heard groans, and discovered Williams, whom they carried back to Burnett's Face;: but he never recovered consciousness, dying about 4 p.m. on the 4th. Deceased was held I in high respect by the community..- [ An accident happened ' to the Culv.erden-' Hanmer Springs coach on the 4th. When re turning from the Springs, descending m cutting into the Waiau River,. 'the coach; took charge of the horses, which - galloped! , downhill and across the bridge, the coachoverturning on the other side. Four ladies * were in the coach, but escaped unhurt. . ■ Henry Percy Norris_, employed in the railway goods shed, while shifting a case of I machinery on" the" 4th, met with an accident resulting in the 'fracture of his thigh..' He' was removed to the Hospital. At the inquest on the young woman Mabel Ancell, employed- as bookkeeper at the Clarendon Hotel, .Napier,, who died suddenly in the shop of a chemist' at Waipawa, where .she had broken a holiday trip to Wellington, a verdict wae returned dS. " Death from convulsions." ' \ A young man named Charles Stewart hacfc his arm broken on Wednesday through hi? hand being catight in a lathe at Reid' and . Cray's. foundry. The injured limb' was. eet at the : Hospital. . ' , _"* '; ~± • ' A" half caste wtts- found dead "fte*r th« "mouth" of" the Waiapu River, Hawke-'s Bay, on Thursday." The 'body, was Banging sus* pended by a' woollen soarf. " A^maif named Hugh JSwan was kcci4en* ! tally "shot jn-the-bu*h about' 2s miles* -fronpc'-' i Waverley, Wellington, on Wednesday. ' - ' David Gorry was killed while bush* felling at Raetihi, Wellington, on Wednes* day. He was struck by a falling tree. A dead body found on Frankley road. New Plymouth, wae identified bb that o»' Richard Smith, a settler on the road. A returned' trooper named Fred Staplesr employed with Page and Spurge, left a ballroom in Takaka, and failed to turn up to work next morning. Search was 'instituted, and his dead body was found in the Takakai River, in deep water, near the protection works dam, below the long plaik suspension bridge.- Staples was a general local favourite. The- fatality is enveloped ~ in mystery. As a ' result of burns- susCamed through! her dress catching fire while cooking at an open fire outside her residence at Dromore on the 4th, Rosette •M'Mullan died in the Ashburton Hospital on Thursday. The father's and mother's hands were badly burned in attempting to put out the flames.) A boating acciden.* occurred at Wanganui on Sunday by which a young m*m named Freeman, son of the proprietor of the railway refreshment roome, was drowned. An elderly man named Morris dropped! dead on Monday while working on a farm, at Mangorei, Taranaki. He lately came from Petone, where his wife is understood to be at present on a visit. • A fireman named Parker ran a red-hot nail into his foot in New Plymouth at- the Oomm'onw'ealth- Hotel fire. The wound is now so serious that a loss of portion of the foot, it is feared, will be necessary. The man m in a critical state. * ( 'A. T. Watson, boatswain on the Karamea, while driving the winch on board the steamer at*"Wellington had his left arm caught round the barrel of the winch, and torn from his body. A boy named Frank Austin, aged 11, while scrambling amongst the rocks on the cliff* at Rocky Point, St. Clair, on Monday afternoon, slipped and fell about 60ft. For* tunately he escaped without eerioua injury, but was badly wounded about the knees, and had sustained a severe shock to the system and a bruising of various parts oE the body. He was removed to the Hospital*

A man who was recently clawed by 4 lion at the Sydney Zoo while taking his grandchild from the cage-front seeks compensation from the council. He alleges the' onclosure gate was open.