CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14886, 28 January 1914, Page 10

CASUALTIES.

■''■■•"..■■■■.: —: —"■'•..♦■'-. ■" ' . ■'■• MOTOR CYCLISTS COLLIDE. , Two motor* cyclists collided at the corner of Gloucester and ' Barbadoes 6treets at 6.20 last night, with serious results to one of them, George Orr Perry, who resides at Hill's road/ St. Albans. - He was thrown.. : fifteen feet before reaching the ground, and then . skidded twenty-seven feet before his head struck the' kerbing. He sustained severe injuries to'his head, necessitating hisremoval to the hospital. A man named. Richard Hepple, employed in the Railway Goodsyard, met with a painful accident yesterday by running' a" nail into the instep of his foot. He went to the Hospital, where his injury was treated in the out-patients' department. ."No serious results are likely to ensue. • (PRESS ASSOCIATION" TELEGRAMS.) STRATFORJ>, January 27. A young man named Moore, of Finarty road, "whilst driving in a,.cart,:collided with a train at a level .crossing. The horse was killed, and both shafts .of the cart broken, but Mooro - escaped with . slight concussion of the brain and minor injuries. He was brought to the Stratford Hospital for treatment. • BLENHEIM. January. 27. A middle-aged, unmarried man named James Ford, a tailor, was found drowned in the Omaka river this afternoon. A labourer named John Illingworth, aged '44 years, was drowned in the Wairau river, Spring Creek v yesterday. Hβ attempted to swim across the river, but sank when half-way across. It is presumed that he was eeized with cramp.