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CASUALTIES.

A young lady named Miss Josephine Hurley, aged 20, residing with her step parents. Mr and Mrs Goode, was knocked down bj a tram in Sjmonds street, Auckland, on the llt l i. and received severe injuries Keith Worley, aged 10 years and a-half, son of a teacher in the Cential School, Nelson, died from lockjaw on the 10th WhiH ruiminsr across a paddock chasing a hov«e he ti-od on a piece of glass and cut his foot. The wo-ind seemad to be healing when tetanus set in. Edward Coleman, a Glenham settler, was driving milk to the factory on the 11th when his trap was overturned by a collision with a post. Mr Coleman fell underneath and was killed. Two boys were playing at Dannevirke with what is supposed to have been a dynamite cap when it exploded, and one boy named Thomas M'Dermott had hJ6 fingers badly shattered and one eye nearly blown out. TTie lad was removed to the hospital, but there is small hope of saving his sight. A waggoner named Telford. while driving on the Dannei irke Coast road met with an exciting accident. He was met by a motor car on a hill about 12 miles from Dannevirke, and his horses took fright and dragged the loaded waggon over the roaJtide. The waggon rolled about 300 ft, ar.d two horeea were killed and the waggon wa= smashed up. .The man, however, escaped with bruises. Information has been received that J. W. Fawoett was drowned at Morere Hot Springs. He -and three companions went to the baths. The latter went inside, and left deceased bathing outside. When they came out they found Fawcett dead. The evidence showed that he jumped from a hot into a cold pool 10ft deep. Witnesses said that death was due to the shock. Deceased was about 28 years old, and a .native of Yorkshire. The body p r Maurice Lanijlcy. a carter, was found in +he breakwater harbour, Napier, on the 12th inst. Life was not quite extinct, but strenuous effort* tc restore animation failed. Deceased was mar ried At the inquest a. verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned. William Wallace, a married man, aged 28 years, was injured by a fall of earth while employed in excavating at Wadestown on the 12th. He died in the Wellington Hospital next afternoon. The inquest into the death of Mrs Lydia Tilbury, who was killed in a collision between a. coach and a train at Appleby on February 1, was resumed on the 12th, when the jury inspected the scene of the accident. The hearing of evidsnee was deferred till later on. The condition of the coachdriver, Br.'ckland, who was injured internally, is still eeriou3. A voting man, John Thompson, who travelled for his father (a tailor), was found drowned at Inveicargill. on the 12th. A charge had been brought against him of falsely representing that he had forwarded £10 through the post to his father, and he w-as under remand. The deceased left a note- stating that he would not be seen again At the inquest the evidence showed strychnine poisoning. The deceased left a letter for his father indicating that liß intended ending his life owing to trouble. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. Through a steam valve blowing out Win. Wood met with a nasty accident on the Hartley and Riley dredge about 7 o'clock on Saturday night. The steam struck him on the chest, and he is suffering badly from scald and shock. He was attended to promptly by Dr Morris, and wae removed to the Dunstan Hospital on Sunday. Charles Trusler, a resident of the Waipahi district, was admitted to the hospital on the 13th inst. suffering frorrv a serious spin« I injury sustained by falling from a ladder while engaged about a. threshing machine. His case is reported to be dangerous. Trusler is 53 years of age and married. About 5 p.m. on the 13th instant a man named John Hutton was admitted to the hospital suffering from injuries to the head, which were of such a serious nature as to produce unconsciousness, from which he had not emerged at an early hour next morning. He was engaged 1 in unloading some piles in the 6tation yard when one of them slipped, with the result mentioned. Hutton, who is .'ibou l ; 35 years of age, is married, and liyes at Belleknowes. William Roche. 25 yeare of age, died

suddenly a-t the Glasgow Restaurant on th© 13th inst. The deceased, who was employed as a cook, was found by a fellowworker about 5 o'clock in a fit. Assistance *.vas summoned, and everything was done for him. but without avail. Dr Watt was called, but the man was 'dead v. hen he arrived. It is said that deceased has a. brothei on the steamer Kaikoura. An Austrian rumed Mate Boksich, about. 35 years old. was lound dead in Albert Park, Auckland, on the 14th. fie had evidently committed suicide. Ho was hanging from the branch of a tree by a leather belt fastened round his neck. A labourer named Charles Rasmmsen, aged 60, fell from a building in course of erection in the city on the 14th and broke both leu; c . The 11-voar-o!d son of Mr Ellisdon, Kingsland, was knocked o\er by a drag and killed when alighting from a tranicar at the King-land terminus, Auckland. The occurrence took place in the presence of the lad's father and mother. The body of a young woman named Ettio Phelbert. belonging to Hokitika, was found in the Waipora River, near Masterton. Medical examination proved that deceased had given birth to a child, which has not been discovered. The deceased had been in Masterton six weeks. The father of the child recently died at Hokitika, and she had been despondent since. J. R. Wilson, of Gordon road, Stratfoid. took a drink of sheep dip in mistake for hop beer on the 17th inst., and expired before medical aid arrived.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

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Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 58

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Tapeke kupu
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CASUALTIES. Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 58

CASUALTIES. Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 58

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