CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14980, 29 May 1914, Page 7

CASUALTIES.

An eleven-year-old boy named George Samuel Brunton. living in Sherbourne street, St. AI bans, slipped on a kerbstone last evening and injured his knee. Ho was taken to the hospital, whero ho was doing -well last The injury is not thought to..be very serious. A man named William Henry l'eiigally, a miner, died at his home, i-* Kilmore street, at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. An inquest wae held Mn tuo afternoon by Mr H. \\ Bishop, fa.--., District Coroner. Mary Mario Pengally, wife of deceased, stated that her husband had been unwell for about two months. He complained of shortness of breath, but felt no pniu, and took his food as usual. When going out of the house vosterdoy morning ho collapsed, and died almost at once. Dr. T\ better, who was called in. also pave evidence. A verdict was recorded that death was duo-to heart disease.

(riIESS ASSOCIATION T-'.EGIIAM.) AUCK"LA:vI>, May 20. Herbert Lock wood, aged 20, wae arrested- lash m«ht on a charge of drunkenness. Later he was removed to tin? hospital, where he died. Death is supposed to have been due to a fit while Lookwood was being conveyed in the ambulance. Ho v.-as evidently a remitance man in straitened circumstances. Hβ had a return railway ticket to Taumarunui. . . The condition of the child Dorothy Ankett. who was terribly injured in tho railway accident at Otahuhu yesterday, is very serious. An inquest on Annie Aquflla Aukett, who was killed v- same accident, was opened and adjourned. GISBORXE, May 28. A httle boy named Jack Muxton was found drowned in a creek near hu> grandmother's residence, Crawford road, this evening. A number of «.*.-*- ---dron had dammed tho creek up in their play, and it is presumed that tho 'little fellow -wandered back to tho scene ana fall into the watofi.