ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2696, 9 August 1894, Page 1

ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

Major Scully, for many years in charge of the Hawke’s Bay police district, is dead. Deceased came to the colony with the 65th Foot Regiment, being subsequently appointed Sergeant-Major in the Armed Constabulary and sent to Napier in 1862. Death was due to break-up of the system, brought on by a neglected attack of influenza. Deceased was accorded a military funeral on Wednesday. A man named William Tracey was found dead in a whare at Te Aute bush, Hawke’s Bay. He leaves a wife and five children.

Father Kerrigan, formerly of Wellington and Blenheim, died at Napier on Monday, aged 65, from bronchitis, after a very brief illness. A man named Harry Octgen was killed whilst bush felling at Pakowai, East Coast, N.I. An old man named Thomas Walsh, who for a long time past has led a vagrant life, was found dead on Sunday morning in a back yard in Lichfield street, Christchurch. Ho had apparently g 'no there to sleep in an old shed. At the inquest a verdict of death from exposure was given.

At the inquest on the body of Henry Hope Brown, master of the ketch Gratitude, who fell from the wharf at the Blufi'npon the bulwark of his vessel, and was fatally injured, the medical evidence was (hat death was caused by shock by wetting and by excessive drinking; but for the hater the doctor thought he would have recovered. A verdict to (hat effect was returned, with a rider that the deceased had been served with drink while intoxicated, and that the police should on this and all other occasions, take steps to bring the offenders to justice. Brown was a widower and leaves throe children, said to bo residing with friends at Ponsonby, Auckland. He was a superior man, was for many years in the P. and O. service, and was supposed to bo a native of Aberdeen.