COLONIAL ITEMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XV, Issue 1342, 28 June 1859, Page 5

COLONIAL ITEMS.

(From tht Sydney Empire.) Accidents and sudden deaths crowd the news columns in melancholy profusion. • ] A hoy of thirteen, David Kenney, is crushed to death' under the wheels of his father's dray, at Allyn Hirer. . • Elisabeth McLtuglilan, but seven years old, is killed in a similar manner in the yard of the Princes-street National School. A child named Lewis Lambert, nearly two years old,dies of- sea-sickness on the passage from the Clarence. At Ararat four men are buried id a drive, and one Samuel Cole, killed. . ': Robert Hunt, found lying near the Ash field Railway Statioe, frothing at the inoutb, dies in the Asylum two days afterwards.' .".■., .'■ The corpse of Mr.- Henry, of Jamberoo it found on the road—thrown from Kti'hbrte. Thi once famous "Jock Ka.hU,' , . formerly a. pugilist.of renown, is found.dead in a /oft at Windsor, from apopleiy. '"'... ' . Two children are burnt to death by the con* flagration of ahouse at Geelong. A child named Sarah Sheele is burnt at Hαbart Town, and dies of the injuries. At Oatlands, in Tasmania, Samuel Wherry, standing in a cart, suddenly drops dead over the side, and it is found that the' spinal vertebra.are separated. , ■','_,' ' Another person, at Hobatt Town, walking along the street, drops dead of apoplexy. At Circular Head, Mr. David Howie, the maa who fifteen years ago conveyed to Melbeurne tidings of the frightful loss of the Catarqui, is drowned, with three of his men, by the upsetting of his boat"

At AueVland, fire young men are upset in their beat, and four of them drowned ', one, named Ducrow, being , a good swimmer, and it is said koown in Sydney. ■■•••■ An old man, named Hanlon, is run over by a goods truck ou Botts' Wharf, while gatheringup waste sugar, and death follows, John Af urphy, a hard drinker. afflicted with asthma, is found dead in his bed in Sussex street. Ellen if , Lean dies miserably in the Gaol hospital at Sydney, at the age of 32, in a state ot insanity and exhaustation from intemperance. ■ ' And- al) this only one Week's imperfect gathering-, in our neighbourhood ! It affords food, for reflection.