CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14844, 9 December 1913, Page 8

CASUALTIES.

(rRESS ASSOCIATION TEIJSQBAMS.)

AUCKLAND, December 8. A veterinary surgeon named Thoru , Gifford Palgrave, aged 42 years, wat found dead at his residence in Brighton road, Parnell, yesterday. It was reported to tho police that death had apparently been due to poisoning Deceased, prior to coming to ParneE about a year ago from New South Wales, had a serious nervous breakdown and since then had been very despondent at times. . Yesterday morning . Mrs Palgrave went for a walk, and on her return at about 1.30 p.m. could not find her husband. Eventually she looked through tho window of the,wash house where she saw him lying on a box, apparently dead. She summoned Dr. Kinder, and it was found that life was extinct.

Boy. Leaning, aged 2 years, son of Mr Ernest Leaning, Itemucra, died at the hospital yesterday as the;result of scalds received the previous day. On Saturday morning he was playing in the kitchen at his parents' residence and fell into a tub of hot water while the attention of those in tho room wa» temporarily distracted. . ;

DUNEDIX, December 8. f v Martin Walsh a seaman, who waa* '■■ recently on the Waitomo, made an attempt on his Hfe this evening. He had evidently been worrying over losing hie situation on account of the strike, and cut his throat with a razor. The wound, t however, is not serious. ; Charles Twining, aged 30, a miner, was accidentally drowned at Shag Point yesterday through a boat cap-. sizing. ' .