CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18365, 24 April 1925, Page 20

CASUALTIES.

(PRESS ASSOCIATIOK TELEGEAItS.) AUCKLAND, April 23. H. A. Cha De Graat, wireless operator on the Dutch steamer Ombilin, disappeared from the vessel at sea some time between the hours of one and seven this morning, when she was in the vicinity of Cuvier Island, en rout" from Wellington to Auckland. Do Graat had been despondent for some time. He was aged 22 years, and was a native of Holland. When last seen at one o'clock he was leaning with his arms on the rail. The steward went to call him at 7 a.m. His cabin door was locked and his bed had not been slept in. There are no indications of foul play. The death occurred in the Auckland Hospital to-day of a woman who had been found between 10 and 11 a.m. on the doorstep of a house in Cook street, where she had previously been given a drink of water. She was identified to-night as Jean Fisher, late of Johnsonville. WHANGAREI, April 23. Owing to the stumbling of a horse, a cream cart belonging to the Hikurangi Dairy Company capsized over a fifty foot bank at Matapouri, on the East Coast, at ten o'clock this morning. An elderly Maori, "Billy," who was in charge, was killed instantaneously. A young girl, 14 yeara of age, named Melva Barson, of Candy's road, Halswell, fell off a bicycle yesterday and was admitted to the Hospital with a fractured right ankle.