CASUALTIES

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11510, 17 February 1903, Page 9

CASUALTIES

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) WELLINGTON, February 16. Edward Goodfellow, a groom, while driving from Parapamumu to Paikakarfki, was killed by a kick from tho horse he was driving. The ireine got tangled under the aa-noTe tail, and while freeing them Goodfellow received the kick which ended fatally. " AUCKLAND, February 16. At the inquest on Mrs John Goodali, who was killed in a collision between ah electrio tram and a trap on Saturday, a verdict was returned that deceased was accidentally killed in consequence of the car colhding with the vehicle in which she ! was riding with her husband, sad luhat no blame was attachable to any person. INVERCARGTLL, February 16. Robert Meldrum, while at work on a bridge on the Orepuki-Waiu railway extension, fell to the dry bed of the stream, thirty feet below, and had his ribs broken. A shunter, named James Ogilvie, while braking a waggon over a weighbridge in the InvercargUl yards to-day, slipped, and one of the wheels passed alontr hw leg and hip. No bones were broken, but the limb was badly contused.

A painful accident befel a young man named Mr J. Boyd, a. Lyttelton resident, while cycling with two companions through Kaiapoi on Saturday. Endeavouring to pass a dray, Boyd ran into a Co-operative Butchery cart, driven by Mr H. C. Revell, and his chest wae impaled by one of the shafts, which injured a lung and the windpipe. Drs. Parsons and Crawshaw performed an operation on the windpipe, and tlie -uflerer was taken to Mrs Dippenhem's nursing borne, where he Kes in a precarious condition. * - Last Saturday Mr W. Ayres, of Kaiapoi, walking in his garden slipped and dislocated one of his arms.