CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18403, 9 June 1925, Page 34

CASUALTIES.

♦ Early on Sunday morning a young man, Geoffrey le Cron, of 158 Heaton street, St. Albans, was driving a Buick car towards the city along Wainoni road. At the junction of Kerr's road and Wainoni road the car skidded and collided with a telograph post and the right rear wheel snapped off. Le Crcn was injured by flying glass and the car was badly damaged. A minor opcra'tion for the removal of glass from the- head was performed on Jo Crcn in the Hospital, and he was able to return to his home yesterday. Last week, while passing in his ear over a level crossing on Lincoln road, Carterton, Mr K. Macbean Stewart (formerly of Christchurch), had a very narrow escape from death, the car being .run into by a goods train and smashed beyond repair. As rain was falling, the windscreen was not clear, and Mr Stewart was in the act of clcajiing it _ when the collision, occurred. He did not see or hear the train approaching, and it struck the car about a foot behind the seat, swinging it out of the way. Mr Stewart's injuries,were not very serious, and were attended to by Dr. M. B. Tweed, who inserted soveral stitches - over an eyebrow. (FBZSS ASBOCIITIOS TILZOXAXS.) "' \ AUCKLAND. Juthe 8. The woman who was killed when a motor-cycle and. side-car crashed into a telegraph post -was Emily Frederica Doherty, wife of James Doherty, gardener. - Colonel W. S. O'Neill, of Auckland, a retired Army officer, died at Kawau to-day as a result of an accident. GISBORNE, June 8. At the inquest touching the death of Mrs Durdop, tho Coroner found that death was due to accidental drowning, hut that,there was no evidence to show how and when Mrs Dunlop got into tho water.. • .' v HAWERA, June 8. The 14-months-old.infant of . Parrish To.. -Koti died on . Saturday evening under strange circumstances. \The child noticed to be ill, and was piit to bed, it not being thought that anything serious was tho matter. Some time later the mother found the child dead. WELLINGTON, June'B. When the Makura- was three days out from San Francisco a niiddle-aged single woman in the seconds-class died from tuberculosis. She was buried at sea.. •" ._•■ Mrs Annie Champion, who was injured on Thursday evening in a motorcycle mishap ; in '■■ Kent' terrace, Wellington, died in hospital yesterday. Two. players, were injured in Soccer matches, on Saturday. 'Meadowcroft (Johnsonville), playing against Wadestown in the B division; broke liis collaitbone. . T, Liddle (Johnsonville), playing his first match in fourth grade on promotion, broke a. leg in the match against Wadestown. -DUNEDIN, June 8. Syd. Harvey, the Otago Central re.prosentative' bf'Sargood;, Son, and E\ven, whilo .shooting- at, Clyde, fell over a bank. : The.gun discharged into liis thigh. Ho .was'sent"to hospital, where lio'lies* in-a:'antical:condition. |