CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 38

CASUALTIES.

A carpenter named Wm. Petty, employed in connection with the alterations being carried out at th° wharf at Auckland, sustained a sen^us injury while engaged in, dismantling "G" sbeci on the 6th inst. Petty lost his balance while levering a piece of +Imber, ancl fell a distance of lOfis on to an iron spike in a plank. The iron, entered his back for nearly 2in. He was admitted to the hospital.

A Maori, who c e name i« unknown, was killed rear Okato on the sth. He fell from his horse and was dragged along the roao! through his foot catching in the stirrup. His skull was fractured

The manatrer of the Tvauri Timber Company, while inspecting bu-h in the Kapowai district at Coromniiilel on thp 7ih. found the body of a middle-aged ipjii in an unused shanty Th<> man. who is as vet unidentified, had been dead about two months.

Alfred HousrhtTn. a lad of 15 years, who was tra'vellinfr on the round trip from England and hack on the steamer Rippingham Grange, fell down a hold of the vessel on the 7th and hurt his back. Fearing injury to the spine, By Gilmour ordered his temoval to the hospital.

A three-year-old son of the late Mr Pnlrerca was burned to death at Opouteke on Saturday b;< T falling into a fire. The child's mother was outside at the time.

An accident wh'ch resulted fatally occuried at Hastings on Raturdav. A kerosene stove, which was being used in the house of a family named Mitchell, caught fire, and was thrown outsVle. A little girl named Jem ma Mitchell, in running round t^e hou=e. fell over +he stove while it was still burning, and her clothing caught fire. She sustained severe injuries, which necessitated her removal to the Napier Hospital, where she died on Sunday night. A boy named Bertie Watkins, residing at Mitchelltown. d ; ed rather suddenly. He returned from school on the 3rd. and complained of feeling unwell. Severe attacks of vomiting followed, and a doctor wag railed, but the lad died on the 4th inst. A.t the inauest the evidence showed fhat the lad had an uncommon disease — delatation of the stomach. Little was known of tho disease, but few who suffered from it recovered.