CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15868, 5 April 1917, Page 8

CASUALTIES.

William Sioaii, bootmaker, a v.-ell-knovm resident or Mat aura,. was found dead in bed on Tuesday morning. Somo Tears ago he was injured when playing football, and had sincc been subjcct to epileptic: fits, and it is supposed that he had a seizure during the night. George Henrs Campbell, painter and paperhanger, .Nile street, >*eLson, iva* found dead in a room at the Commercial Hotel, Murchison, on Saturday. His throat was cut. and thcro was a blood-stained razor lying alongside tho body. Deceased left Poison for Murehison a few days previously to carry out some "work; * Ho was .>0 years of aye a«<l married. He had been established in business in for many ycare. John Alexander Golds. 66 years of age, a member of the Ambulancc Corps training at Awapuni, fell dead while going through drill evolutions on Monday afternoon. George Hunt, Tai Tapu. was admitted to the.Christchurch Hospital yesterday, suffering from burns on his face and hands, caused by an explosion of carbide.

(press association telegrams.) THAMES, April 4. Richard Richmond Lloyd was found hanging from a rafter in a wash-houso this morning. Ho left his bed about six o'clock complaining of a bad head, and was found an hour later by his son. Deceased was 48 years of age," and was clerk to the Hospital Board. He had worried much over damage done by the flood to the institution HAMILTON, April 4. Trooper John Chambers, aged 20, fell off a train at Frankton Junction yesterday, and died in the Hamilton Hospital thi3 morning.