CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17114, 8 April 1921, Page 10

CASUALTIES.

At tho Oxford Show yesterday, in the jump for poiiies not over 13.2 hand', Ngatura swerveti at a hurdle," throwing its rider, Miss Gladys Hunn, "who suffered severe injuries and was unconscious for sonio hour*. A youth named Thomas Winder, aged i 5 years, living at 523 Worcester street, while riding a motor-cycle along •Wbrccstiir street at ..C>out ,8 p.m. yd*"' terday, was run into from behind by * ror.tor-car. Ho received injuries to* leg, his side and brick, necessitntilfc' his aumi&sion to the Christchurt* "Hospital. WAIMATE, April 7. Yesterday. Alfred Pelvin,. former!* a blacksmith, and a married man, aJB*3 SB, with a grown-up family, fell fro* the top of a lad<!«r and became imprWl on a crowbar stuck in the ground, Hj* point entering his lower abdomen. •*• died at tho hospital this morning. AUCKLAND. Awl". The non-appearance at his home !■*• night of A" E. Kenton, ono of tM painters employed on tho Admiral Oodrington,-which is at present in w» Calliope dock, caused anxiety 1Q m» wife. A ijearch of the vessel waftfhndjj this morning, when tho men.returned to work, and the body of th» unfortunate man'Was'found lying in one of tlw holds. It is thought that in walking across the deck after knocking off work last evening he must have tripled B wd fallen down the hold, meeting "is < death instantly, as no outory was apparently heard. The d-'cofyetl. who wiw 34' years of age, was a married roan , with two children.