CASUALTIES.
By the upsetting of a dray on the 11th at Wa:.rjgawa. Henry Ivan sjeoraueke, three and a-lialt' yearj of age, was killed. An inquesL was held in regard to tha death of Walter Stuart, who was drowned while bathing at Day's Bay on the 10th. The verdict was " Accidental death." The> coroner and police commented on tha bravery of two Wellington College boys— James Bronte (15) and Hector Cowpcr Oloustou (15) —who went into the water and saved Mr Stuart's wife and daughter. While riding a motor cycle from Hamilton on the Bth a well-known local traveller, Mr Patrick Gregan, employed bft T Booth, Macdonald and (Jo., machinery agent?, collided with the Thames-Auckland express at Peach Grove crossing. The train was travelling about 20 miles an hour, and Mr Grcgan was going at a good pace. The impact was severe, and Mr Gregan was' thrown from his machine through an adjoining fence. Pie had his right hand' torn oiF, and also received a severe lacerated wound on the back of the head. Ho w : as taken to the Waikato Hospital unconscious. The full extent of his injuries is not yet known. Mr Gregan is a married man with a iarge family. The cross'ng. (says the Hamilton correspondent of the Auckland Star) is.like the remaining five in the vicinity of Hamilton, exceedingly dangerous, and the wonder is that the toil of similar accidents has not been greater.
Mr William Jensen, a farmer, residing at Lookout. Point, met with an accident on the Anderson Bay road on the 13th mst. while endeavouring to avoid a collision with a motor car. It appears that he was riding a motor cycle behind a trumcar, and when tho latter stopped he came out on the side of the road. He then saw a motor car coming, and, fearing a collision, be turned his machine into a bank, which resulted in both his knees being severely injured and his motor cycle considerably damaged. Ho was admitted to the Hospital shortly after midnight, and is progressing satisfactorily. The death by (frowning of a fanner belonging to Henderson Point, To Atatu, named Andrew Winter, was reported to the Auckland police on the 10th. According to a report by District Constable Roser Winter jumped off the launch Peerless, between Hobsonville and Greenhithe, on the 9th inst. The deceased was 43 years of age. He came to New Zealand six years ago,
Alfred Clinch, a well-known resident o£ Temuka, was found lying- dead on the floor of his bedroom on the 12th with his throat out and a blood-stained razor beside hi 9 body. Mrs Clinch and her son had left home at 2 p.m. to pay a visit to town. When the son returned at 5 p.m. he found his father dead. An inquest, was held by Mr V. G. Day. coroner, and a verdict was returned that deceased had committed suicide in a fit of temporary insanity A boy named James Lunny, of Birkenhead, died on the 15th from injur: ss received through being thrown From a bicycle, the handle bar of which struck him and inflict ii internal '"njuri-. - *
At the inquest on Gilbert Marshall, one of the victims of the recent double tragedy in Wellington, the verdict was that death was due to an overdose of chlorodyno, selfadministered.
George Edgar, a single man. a trucker at the Blackwater mines, fell 600 ft down a shaft on the 15th inst, and wa« killed. A single woman named Teresa Annie Harper committed suicide at Blackpoint, near Rcefton, by taking poison. Tn a cricket match at Barisbrook on the 15th. A. F. Hindmarsh, wicket-keeper for Christ's College, was struck by a ball above the left eye, the blow inflicting a nasty cut about two inches in length. A seaman named Malcolm Henry, engaged on the barque Rona, was taken to the Hospital in an unconscious condition on the 15th, as the result of falling down the hold, which was open for the discharge of cargo. He was ctit about the face, and received injuries to his nose, but his injuries do not appear
to bo serious. A boy named Norman Sutherland died in the Auckland Hospital on the 17th inst. as the result of injuries sustained through a fall from a tree at his parents' residence at Onehunga. Two boys named James Horace Irwin (aged 13 years) and Raymond Sainty (aged 13 years) were drowned in a pond on the Campbell Estate on the 17th. Accompanied by a third boy named Cochrane, they were playing on the estate. Sainty and Cochrane, both of whom could swim, went for a bathe in the pond, and Irwin, who could not swim, went on to the pond on a wooden raft. - Suddenly the raft, collapsed, and Irwin sank. Both Cochrane and Sainty made a brave attempt to rescue the other boy, but Sainty was seized by Irwin, and both went to the bottom. Cochrane's attempts to gave both boys were unavailing, and after diving for some time he went for help. When the bodies were recovered the deceased were found clasped in each other's arms. At the inquest, the coroner found that Irwin had been accidentally drowned, and that Sainty was drowned while heroically endeavouring to save Irwin. He also commended tho action of Cochrane in attempting to effect a rescue.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3275, 20 December 1916, Page 53
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