CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16986, 8 November 1920, Page 11

CASUALTIES.

! SUDDEN DEATH ON FERRY • STEAMER. i A man named Joseph Norman, fiftv-nine year?, died suddenly oil torrv steamer Maori shortly before lv arrival at Lyttclton yesterday mormnp. Deceased, who was a travel-ing si 1 0" . man, wa< coming witli his wiie and son to attend the Metropolitan resided ai Jaizac Parade, ' and "had been under medical attention : tor heart disease. Mr 8. p. McCarthy. Coroner, held' nn inquest at T.vttelton yesterday aitei- * noon, when a verdict. of death iiom j heart failuro was returned. i The female infant child of J'"raiik ! Ernest and Louisa Matthews cpfd .U i hours after Birth 011 Saturday night m i,l maternitv home. TIIO Coroner. -H McCarthy, "held an inquest yesterday, and returned .a verdict in accordance with tho medical evidence —that death was due to heart failure consequent 011 status lvmphaticus. In endeavouring to stop a runaway i horse with a trap which bolted through ] the Squaro along Colombo street, on I Satnrdav morning, 11. Cahill. who roi sides at' New Brighton, slipped and toil, 'and tho trap paSsed over both his * e S®I Rov Manger, 'a telegraph messenger, I was also knocked down bv the runaway, and suffered some cuts and Caliill and Clanger wero taken to tun Hospital, where the latter wns treated in the out-patients' department, but io was found that Cahill 'had a- .eg fractufed. Ho "'as progressing satisfactorily yestorday. A boy named Ciibson, aged lb, reveling at'Sydenham, was riding a horse vesterdav morning, when it bolted, and l:o was thrown. He was taken m an unconscious condition to tho Hosrual, and in tho afternoon regained con- j eciousness. i (PEESS ASSOCIATION m'XECP.AiIS j NAPIER; November 7. Tho body ol' a newly-born infant was found in an outhouso afc Mceaneo yesterday. An inquest wns opened at Napier this afternoon, when it was stated that a girl named Phoebe Cattanacli had admitted that she was tno mother of tho child. Tho inquest Tsa.-> adjourned till' Tuesday. • DUNEDIN. November 7. Frank Annis, aged 51, residing at Henlcv, was admitted to Hospital lute ( last night suffering from a. fracturo or t'lio left thigh. He fell from his bicycle in front of tho wheels of a traction- i engine, one wllicc/1 going over both legs./i He died at <G o'clock this morning. j ===== j