CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11498, 3 February 1903, Page 6

CASUALTIES.

(PRE9S ASSOCIATION TKLKCBAUS.) -HAYVKRA, Fvbuwry 2. A child named ViMtvelvofsky. no-tw-aen three ar.d four year*, was drowned ilia well. Deceused and his lack , brothers and sisters were playiuj,' nround the- -veil, which id-thirty feet'dtep, and has fifteen feet of water in it, when Uwy removed a inetvvy case which covered ;i «nall opening, and the little fellow fell in. Nearly an hour tflapeed before ihe body,was reand l efforts at. reeusuit-ating failed. At the inquest on the cliild Voifcrekofsky, who was drowned in a well, a verdict of "Accidental death" was returnedDANNEVIEKE, February 2. Duxiug a heavy tiionnderstornii on Saturday night, a ohMd , namedi Roxburgh, aged 11, living at lVumaki, was struck by lightning. The child, wsiose leit side was paiuryeed, k recovering. AUCKLAND, February 2. The Rev. Father James Mclntosh, the Roman Catholic prieet of the Parnell parieh, was forund dead in a bedroom. At the inquest the verdict was that death was due to syncope, as the result of hemorrhage and exhaustion from vomiting. An inquest, held yesterday, touching the death of an infant named Albert Rountree, at Papanui, resulted in a verdict of death by natural causee. Dr. Syanes made a Dcet-mortem examination.