CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18415, 23 June 1925, Page 11

CASUALTIES.

CHILD'S DEATH. Yesterday morning an infant named Alistcr Johnston, who was born on Wednesday test, died in tho ■ Essex Horn?, Linwood. In the afternoon an inquest on tho body was held by Mr }[. V. Widdowson. Coroner. ''Tho cause of the child's death." paid l>r. F. Duncan, who is medical officer to tho institution, "was heart failure duo tj congenital disease."

After hearing tho evidence of the Matron and two nurses, the Coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.

SUDDEN DEATH. An ox-Inrpcrial soldier named William Sturgis, aged 06 years, died suddenly in bed at his mother's house in Durham street. Sydenham, yesterday morning. Sturgis, who was a single man, had been medically attended by Dr. James V. Duncan, who Rave a certificate as to tho cause of death.

(rSESS ASSOCIATIOS TELIGSAHS.) AUCKLAND. .Tune 22. Eaveiie Alexander Russell Cox, aged 20, was drowned through tho capsizing of a boat in the Waimana river on Sun day. His companion, G. Turner, a schoolmaster, had a narrow escape. A live-seatcr car broke through the side of a bridge at Ihumata on Saturday afternoon, and fell into tho tidal creek twenty feet below. The occupants were Mr Jefeoate, a farmer, and two women and a child. Mr Jefeoate was slightly injured, but tho others were unhurt. The tide was right out, and the car fell into shallow water, where there is sixteen feet at high tide. The ear was extensively damaged. ' DUNEDJN, J»ne 22.

. James MeXicol. aged -50, was found in the St. Kilda tramway waiting-room with a bottle of poison alongside hin.. He died on tho way to the Hospital. At the inquest on Frederick A. J. Benfcll, the shunter who was killed at Burnside, the Coroner, Mr J. S. Bartholomew, commented that the accident was due to an unfortunate combination of circumstances. Tho points were wrongly set, and there was .practically no lighting in the yard. The conditions cf work were more dangerous than they should' have been. He was glad to learn -that proper lighting was now being provided. Thomas Stevenson, a gardener, was admitted to the Hospital to-day suffering frpm a fractured skull, as the result of being knocked off his bicycle by a. car driven by Dr. London. He is still unconscious, and his condition is critical.