CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11569, 28 April 1903, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

A lad named F. Neate was rather severely tfoalded at Messrs Au:»iVJiooks factory yc-teiday morning, through falling down with a pot ot boiling water he was currying. H;.s injuries were attended to at the Hospital. A boy named Eric Brown was riding at Middieton yesterday afternoon, when his horse fell, and he sustained an injury to lus ankle, and was taken to the Hospital. (MESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) NELSON, April 27. A curious accident occurred yesterday. A boy. named Cuthbert Hun is, aged eight, was playing whip-top, and a manuka stick in the hand of a companion Hew out and struck his eye, destroying the sight. The eye wus removed, and it is unlikely that he will lose the siuht of tin* either eve. PALMERSTON NORTH, April 27. While Albert Collins, a boy ot fifteen, was driving along a street in Palmerston to-day, he was fined at by another boy of the same age, named Woods, who was amusing himself with a saloon rifle. The shot struck Collins just under the right eye, and has not vet been extracted. NEW PLYMOUTH, April 27. A man named P. George met with an accident while riding to his work on a bicycle this morning, about two mile- Irani town His companion was in front, and hearing ti thud turned, and saw George on the ground. A doctor was summoned, and the. man removed to the hospital suffering from a, fracture at the bare of the skull. Ho did not regain consciousness, and died at three this afternoon. Deceased was a traction engine driver, and had only one arm. having lost the other in a shooting accident some years ago. He leaves a widow and voting family. Another death occurred at the hospital early this morning, a man named Newall, who' was admitted last wek suffering from the result of a fall of earth in a gravel pit near Eltham.