CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17117, 12 April 1921, Page 10

CASUALTIES.

-.The police received word yesterday that George A'Court; aged about-60 years, was found dead in his bed at Lake Coleridge yesterday-morning. A fractured thigh was suffered by T. K lladcliffe, of on .Sunday night, a.3 the result of .a fall from a-motor-cycle. He was admitted to.-the (Ihristchurch Hospital yesterday. (FRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.; ' :' AUCKLAND. April 11: •""' Andrew J! Strong, aged eight,; son of W...G. St'rong,' labourer, of Avon-. dale, was run over by a bus, it- isvsup.posed through his failing.from the step. The injured lad died. at. the hospital. ~ A fatality occurred in Remuera tbia afternoon, when hj, motor-car, containing -N. P, Wyatt, solicitor, of Remuera; •his wife and two children, and-a friend named- Miss Brown, capsized.. Mrs Wyatt rocoiv.ecl such severe injuries that she.died on tho way to,the hospital, Wyatt suffered a broken collar-: • bone, Miss Brown injuries- to her'head, and tho drirer of the car, H. V. Stables, had a wrist broken.. Tho'chil-. ,dren oscaped injury. Wyatt and his. party were having a trial run in the car, with the idea of purchasing it. It is 'believed' that one of tiie .wheel's collapsed, and the car turned over, end on. Richard Henry Hog&n, aged SO years, .a resident of Wnirqa,.|Jawke's Bay, %a 8 found dead in bed in tho Market Hotel this afternoon. DUNEDIN. April 11, Gorgon Alexander Stevenson, brother of the Mayor of Port Chalmers, died at Mount Royal, near Pnhnerston South, -yesterday, from the effects of arecent mishap. Sterertßpn fell off a motor-cycle, and in doing so broke a bottle of petrol in his pocket. Tlie broken bottle severed a thick artery, caiising. considerable bleeding.