ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4127, 14 October 1884, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES.

Auckland, This day

Charles Brnddock, employed at the Oropi saw mills, fell down a well Avhile in an epileptic fit yesterday, and was drowned 1 Wellington, This day. John Stratford, an old settler, died on Sunday, aged 79. Ho arrived here in the ship Cuba in 1839, and was the first Imm fide settler who stepped ashore in Port Nicholson. .„, . , Dunedin, This day. At Kyburn, in the Maniototo County, a two-year-old boy named Eliott George was found in a duck-pond a foot deep. Ihe top of his head was dry when the body was

taken out. He was found lying on his back with his hands in the air. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict to the effect that there was no evidence to show how the deceased got into the waterhole in -,-hich he Avas found, and that there was not sufficient testimony to prove whether he had died from drowning or from fright. The body of the missing man John M'Fee, was found on Sunday within two miles of tho Serpentine. Though exposed for a fortnight, the bod}', owing to tho high altitude of the locality and the cold weather, was not in any way decomposed. It was snowing when tho deceased left the Serpentine, and he had got off his horse and hud down to sleep in some tussocks. An empty whisky bottle was found by his side.