CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16854, 7 June 1920, Page 7

CASUALTIES.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) TE AROHA, June o. A four-year-old girl, daughter of W. 'A. Brinkfey, died in tho hospital from burns. Her clothing caught firo while playing near a copper. . A Dalmatian, named Martin Pucar, committed suicide by jumping from the Man gati Bridge into the Waihou river. AUCKLAND, June ii. Tho body of a commercial traveller, George Kelson Butler (58), employed by A. H. Nathan, Ltd., was found on St. Mary's beach this morning. Butler, who had apparently been drowned, had been at Whangarei, and on Friday telephoned to Lis wife that ho would return next day. Nothing further was heard of him. Tho body of a married woman. Amy Ilyan, about 40, was found floating in the harbour this morning. Sho was last seen on Friday. FEILDING, June 5. Another motor-ear accident occurred at Sandon last night, when a cue, travelling from Palmerston to Eltliam, took tho trainline instead of the roadline, and overturned. One passenger named Harrison was seriously injured, but tlio others escaped with only slight injuries. 3>TJNTn>IN, Juno 5. Edward McKewen, licenseo of tho Marine Hotel, Port Chalmers, was found drowned at Mussel Bay yesterday afternoon. He left home at 2.15 p.m. to join a train at Mussel Bay for l>unedin It is thought that ho may have fallen from the carriage after the train started, and rolled into the water, thero being an injury to tho head. June 6. A boy named James Caskie, a telegraph messenger, 15 years of age, living in Cuml>erland street, was electrocuted' last night about 9 o'clock in the reserve known as the Triangle, in Lower Higlf street. Caskie was swinging on one of the wire stays of the flagpole when the high wind blew against it an electric power wire. This probably carried a current of about 1700 volts, and Caskie must have been killed instantaneously .