CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16418, 11 January 1919, Page 11

CASUALTIES.

Tho girl, Christina Mills, of Belfast, who --received injuries on -Thursday night through fulling from tho roof of a house, was operated on at the Hospital yesterday, and 13 stated to be progress in;; satisfactorily. A man named Fred Johnston, of Tvyle, was admitted to the Ashburton County Hospital, 0 n Thursday, suffering ironi an injury to .. his right hand, through .it being caught in a hinder. It was l'otind necessary, to amputate the thumb: Erie Jiarr. 1G years of age, ihot with, a serious .icdde'nt while • out rabbit shooting' with a pea-riHe at Mount Somers, on Wednesday. Ho was getting through a fence with some rabbits slung over his shoulder, wljon the rifle went off, the, bullet entering his side and coining out at the point- of the shoulder.

(I"KESS. ASSOCIATION. TELEGRAM.) ; AUCKLAND; January 10. : The body of a "boy was found' this afternoon lying in snallow water, oh Seatinel road beach. The hid was dead, •and had a fishing rod clutched in his right hand. -He had evidently been drowned w'hile fishing, probably '■ from the cliffs, or the wharf hear by. The body has not yet bean identified. WELLINGTON", January 10. A fi.tgi'j drowning accident occurred at the Railway Wharf last evening, the victim beinjj a .schoolboy namtd John Stephens. I'he father" and three son's were fishing at the end of the Railway Wharf about ti p.m., when some othnC boys camje on the sceho and commenced "skylarking." John Stephens, who was -aßont ten years old, was standing 01 tho'extreme end of the wharf, and by . oine menus was precipitated into x'iio watc-r. It is alleged that he was tally pushed in by another hoy, whose name has not yet been -ascet'taino:!.