CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14975, 23 May 1914, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELWJBAIt.} AUCKLAND, Map 22. At tho inquest at the Mental Hospital regarding the death of a patient named Elizabeth Schomberg, a verdict was returned of strangulation while insane, no blame beins attachable to the authorities An old man named IS'flil Reid, cw>k on tho schooner Morning Light, was discovered at a late hour,on Thursday night lying across the rails on the lower breastwork at. Lyttelton near the Tβ Anau. While walking along tho wharf Jloid lost • his hat, and in attempting to recover it tripped over the rails, injuring his back. On being removed to , the Casualty .Ward-"he was attended by ' Dr. Newell, who ordered his removal to the Christ-church Hospital. ■

(ritlS3 AtSOCTATTON TILKORAMS.) GISBORNE. May 22. William Cochrane, a middlo-ased ■ ipaii and single,■'was drowned in the Main.war river. Ho fell from-his-horso over ;t &tecp bank into tho flooded etroarn. WELI/IXGTON. May '22. When tho Union Company's Tahiti was a few hours out from Itaratonga to Sari Francisco on April Ist, a trimmer named Leslie Maeplierson met his death under tragic circumstances. About 7 a.m. he was working in the vessel's -bunkers, when he was overwhelmed by a hearyiall of coal. Macpberson was extricated with difficulty, and ifc was found that, lie wae seriously hurt. Tho ship's surgeon was quickly in attendance, and discovered that the unfortunate man was 'suffering from, a fractured skull. '. Macpherson 'lingered till 3 p.ip.j when, he died.. .The-Tahiti was stopped, and the body taken ashoro in a launch by the firemen and trimmers, and the funeral'took place at iiaratouga the following day. Macpherfcon was a single man. 26 years of age, and joined the Tahivi* a (Sydney before she left for Wellington on March 21st.