FATAL ACCIDENT TO AN OLD SETTLER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3374, 30 November 1889, Page 2

FATAL ACCIDENT TO AN OLD SETTLER.

i Ik addition to particulars telegraphed j and published in Friday's issue, one of our staff whilst at Blairlogio ! yesterday gained tho following ; information of tlie mi accident which befel Mr Duncan Morrison and ultimately led to his death on \ Friday overling, 'On hits way up to ! Blairlogie Mr Morrison called at Mr 1 (Jarswell's Hotel at an early hour on Wednesday morning. During his stay 1 ho intimated he was paying a visit to bis late brother's peopk at Blairlogie, where ho had not been for many . years, He seemed in excollqnt spirits and expressed the pleasure he felt at being ablo, after such a long interval, to again pay a visit to that • locality. His horse appeared to bo a '■ very spirited animal, cspecially.for n i man of his great weight (over 19 ; stone) and ago to ride, Mr Morrison i proceeded op his journey and had ! scarcely crossod tho threshold of the • ostate, when his horse shied and i threw him heavily to the ground, ' How long he lay there even the poor 1 fellow hinisolf could not afterwards tell, but it must havo been a consider--1 ablo time, Tlio first to notice him ' lying on the road was the mailman from the lijast Coast, who jumped off 1 his horse, had a look, and then rode 1 on, It was several hours after this when Mr Urqubart, buyer for tho Happy Valley Meat Oompauy camo 1 along, and carried the news to Mr A. McPhee, at Blairlo£[ie station, that an old gontlemen, very muph rcsombling Mr Duncan Morrison, of tho Lower 1 Valley was lying, on tho road apparently badly hurt. Mr McPhee ' immediatelyrodeoll'toascertainifatiythingserioushadhappened, When ho 1 came up to Mr Morrison he found him sitting on tho roadside. In re. ply to inquiries, Mr Morrison stated tlio horse had shied at some object on 1 the road and threw him, That was all that he could remember, Poor Morrison at this time was almost . smothered in mud, and drenched with rain.- Seeing that be was badly hurt, Mr McPhee, with the assistaneo of tho roadman (who happened to be at work a short distance ; away), conveyed him to Mr C'lrswell's Hotel, This was late in the afternoon, Being under the impression the case was not a serious one, medical aid was not called in that evening, In the meantime everything that could possibly be done to relievo pain was resorted to. On Thursday he appeared nq easier, and a wire was despatched to Dr Milne, who promptly attended, and reipained at tlio hotel all night,, On Friday morning the doctor left forMasterfcon,.and.returned in the afternoon in company with Dr Uosking, Within a short time of their arrival, although they did overytbipg possible' to ' roliovo their patient's suflbring, he expired.' Great sympathy is felt with the surviving relatives, this making tho ( thll'd tetb in tho family in the short ! space of two !i ,fl * M™ Strang, a j daughter of Mr D. Morrison, died a month ago, and John Morrison, brother of (Ijpupd, on life 2/th of, September, Ho loaves a large faruily i of children and ruariy connections' to j luourn their loss, ' Deceased came out to New Zealand in the shfp'" Cly- j desdale" years, and settled i with his parents' at Glenmoryeri . where he carried on the pursuit of a grazier in an extensive way. '