CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2728, 27 June 1906, Page 32

CASUALTIES.

♦ A gruesome discovery has been made in the bed of the Opihi River, near Temuka, where a human hand, thought to belong to a, middle-aged female, has been found. There is not the slightest olue as to the identity, but the police are making inquiries. David Kilgour expired at a doctor's residence at Auckland on June 20 while under chloroform, just before he was to be operated on for a diseased bone. At the inquest e\idence was given by Dis BuHt. Dudley, and Gordon to the effect that deceased became violent under the influence of chloroform, and then ceased breathing. Artificial lespiration was tried without avail. Certain organs of deceased's heart were diseased. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence — namely, "Failure of tho heart's action, the result of chloroform properly administered." The Olutha Free Press states that Mr P. C. Hislop, captain of the Balclutha Rugby Club, was unfortunate enough to get his right knee hurt whilst playing against Milton on Saturday. Notwithstanding, he p'.uckily played on. The injury, however. is likely to incapacitate him from further play this season, if it does not mean an enforced retirement from the game altogether. An old man named John Taylor died suddenly just before the Friendly Societies' service commenced at tho Choral Hall, Auckland, on the 20th inst. He was singing on the platform and suddenly fell over, and died when being carried out. He was a retired civil servant, formerly holding the position of inspeotor in the railway workshops, also an old member of the Manchester Unity and P.G.M of the order. Grave fears are entertained for the safety of a young man named William Rearmont who left Hokitika. with a pack horses on the 20th inst. to deliver goods to men engaged on Hie road to the Wilberforce Reefs. His horses and dog were found on the riverbed to-day, but there was no trace of the missing man. The river being in high flood leaves little doubt of the fate of the young man. Search .parties are out in all directions. The body was found in the Styx River on Saturday. Deceased was apparently drowned in attempting to ford the river on Wednesday. A young man named Henry Williamson, residing in John street, Dunedin, was received into the Hospital on Thursday afternoon suffering from a gunshot wound. Williamson had been out snooting at Halfway Bush, and when getting through some gorse his gun went off, the charge lodging in tho abdomen. He was removed to the Hospital, where he was at once attended to. His condition is considered serious. Albert Blackwood, a boy residing at Mam road, Caversham, met with a nasty accident .on Thursday through being run into by a cyclist. If appears that the youngster, with others, was playing with 'a football on the street at the far end of Cavershani, and when in the act of stooping to pick up the ball he was run into by a~ cyclist coming down the hill from the direction of the Industrial School. The boy was' rendered unconscious, and was removed to a house near by, but was subsequently taken to the Hospital. He was suffering' from a pretty severe concussion, but the house-surgeon did not anticipate any serious consequences. The cyciist, it might be mentioned, also came to the ground, but he picked himself up, and, mounting his machine, rode off without so much as a "Beg your pardon" to the boy whom he had knocked over. An accident, which resulted fatally, occurred at Hastings on the 22nd. Just as the 5 p.m. train for Napier was leaving that place an elderly man named William Tait attempted to get on the- train while it was moving, and somehow got under the carriage, a portion of the tram going over his lower limbs, and crushing both leg* below the knee. Ho was brought to Napier and admitted to the hospital, where he died about 8.30 p.m. A private telegram from Auckland states that a small oil launch was wrecked below DanncMrkc It is feared that three men were drowned. The engineer of the launch is a son of Mr Robb, of Northoote, Auckland. Details are not available. So far as is known at Napier, only two men on the launch are reported missing from Akitio— William Robb (Auckland) and J. St. John Beer (Riverton). Wreckag-e found on the coast is believed to be part of the launch. Captain Thompson, of the steamer Kahu, at Castlepoirit, telegraphed to Inspector Ellison on Saturday -as follows: — "I have to report that during the dinner hour, between Matakana and Castley.oint. about 12.30 o'clock, a seaman named Andrew ■Tat is believed to hare jumped overboard from the s.s. Kahu." A young woman named Eva Maud Eason attempted to board the A- p.m. train from Ohristchurch to Lyttelton on Saturday while it was in motion, but fell between the station platform and the train. She was dragged for some distance, sustaining concussion of 'the brain and severe bruise*, and died fliortly after admission to the hospital. At the inquest, held on Saturday, a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. A two-year-old child named May Lettie Fleming, whose parents live at Mctlncn, died on Friday from burn* accidentally received that mocning tvhil« its mother was away from tho home. William Brooke, when shooting near Waiuku, Aucklind, with c man named Hudson, was accidentally shot dead. Brooke is well known in the Waikato, and was a married man, with one son. A man named Charles William Johnston died at Auckland Hospital on Monday morning as the result of a fall from the wharf to the deck of the ecow Southern Isles, on the 15th inbt. A capsized canoe, with a gun and ducks aitached. was found on Lake Waikare, Auckland. Tho canoe belonged to Thomas Foote, a flaxmiller, who was shooting with a friend. Foote is a good swimmer, and it ie hoped that the occupants succeeded in landing on the island in the vicinity. A girl fell off a. train on Monday between Avon dale and New Lynn, Auckland, and sustained concussion of the brain, paralysis of the right side, and a broken arm. She was standing on the platform of one of the carriages with her brother (eight years of age), and while tho train was rounding a bend she was thrown off. The child's condition is serious. She is the daughter of Mr Edward Whitehouse, a settler at Matakohe. Samuel Fresco wthick, aged about 53 years, a butcher, fell dead at Gi&borne on .so

Monday just after alighting from a delivery cart. , At the Gieborne hunt Roy Allwood; of Waikato, was thrown, and sustained _ • broken jaw and concussion of the brain. The horse's neck was broken. Miss Ivy Clayton, of Stratford, was the victim of a shocking accident on Saturday evening. While riding- a restive horse the animal reared, falling back on her, internal injuries of a most serious nature resulting. Her condition is extremely critical. The Bruce Herald states that Mr George Lit tie john had the misfortune to meet with an accident on Saturday evening whilst cycling from Dunedin to Milton. He was riding down Saddle Hill, when his chain broke, and he was thrown heavily from his machine, and sustained a fracture of the metacarpel bone in the right hand, in addition to several bruises. The injuries were attended to by Dr Young, of Milton.