CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 12014, 15 October 1904, Page 8

CASUALTIES.

(riIESS ASSOCIATION TKtCOKAMS.) » AUCKLAND, October 14; Hill and Fitzpatrick, who were reported vith their boat, yesterday, have been found safe. , Mrs Ilcgan, a resident of Wyndham sttvcf, wtui HurMng a three- weeks old baby in front of the fire, w-lien *»he took a fit, and the child fell from, her lap into tJie fire. ytn* Hogan's «is<t«r-in-]aw said the half-conscious mother waa trying to rescue it. ,The baby was M»riou*ly burned, and its clothing was df«troycd. * It. died before medical attention Mac available. The motlier whs uninjured. SELSOX, October 14. * On the steamer i-vguoguru yeeterday forennr.n, newr Puponga, the rteward, Frank Bond, was emptying a pan of boiling grave into n baking difli, Avhen the greaee flew up, severely scorching his face, head, ond liand*. He suffered great 'pain. Tliere fa ik> medical man at Puponga, and Bond vras broughs to Xelmn this morning and taken to t-be Hospital. A tod named Braddock accidentally shot a boy named Charles Taylor with a pistol in the kg, while they Mere out togetlier, on Wednesday. The fatter was taken to the Hospital. There. ii» no, danger. DUNEMN, October 14. ' At the inquest on Thomas Buddicombc Cotton, the jury returned a verdict that ibe deceafjed; committcii suicide by liang ing. Deceased, vho -was twenly-nine years of age, had been out of -work' for f</mo time, But gave no indication of be>ing despondent.