CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12282, 28 August 1905, Page 7

CASUALTIES.

I Shortly after half-past four o*olook on Saturday afternoon, a man and his wife •were driving out of a right-of-wo./ into Liohficld street, not far from Colombo street, when one of tho wheels slipped from the bridge over tho side channel into the gutter, with the result tliat the lady was shot out of the back of the vehicle, there being no back to the eeat. She was stunned by the fall, > and was much, bruised. Her husband, who was not aware of what had happened until his attention was drawn 'to it by those in the vicinity, got his wife into the vehicle again, after she 'had recovered a little. It is understood that the occupants belong to Tai Tapu. . (PRESS ASSOCIATION TKLKCUUXS.) ■'.-,; vV NELSON, August 24. A young man, Henry Hippolite, a Maori, was travelling through the bush last night at OroixeJles, when he fell over a cliff and lay there all night. He was found this morning, and brought to Nelson. Ho received .nasty gashes about) the face and head, but is not seriously injured. GISBORNE, August 24. James Allan, who Was found unoon«oious on the roadside on Tuesday evening, died at the hospital last night. At the inquest held to-day the jury found that deceased fell from his horse while in a state of intoxication. The police evidence was that, when the man was picked up, he appeared to be drank: He had been visited in the cell several times: during the night, and prior to being eeused with the fit ehout 1 m.ru. there was no indication that he had been injured /seriously by. the fall. ' HAMILTON August 24. A man named Devonport, jacking alone in the bush, near Taumarunui, was killed by a log falling on him. The accident must have happened yesterday afternoon. 'The body was found this morning pinned to the ground by * log. The man is unmarried, having tiro brothers-in the district. : : , '

AUCKLAND, August 26. Flora McDonald, 84, en old age pen&iorter, periehed in a fire which destroyed her residence at Kuaotunu yesterday. MANGAWEKA, August 26. Word was reoeived this morning that a contractor named Simms has been kHled -wihilßt bushiaUing on Mr Gorliage's property in Upper Kawatu. PALMERSTON NORTH, August 26. Geoffrey Bead, nftti employee in the Royal Hotel, and'a recent arrival in the colony, fell through, a sKylight at tbo New Zealand Clothing Factory premises this morning, and sustained a fractured thigh and internal injuries. He was removed to the hospital in a critical state. DUNEDIN, August 27. Tbe dead body of a male infant was found on the Town Belt, between the city and Roslyn. The police are making inquiries. It is believed an early arrest will be r.iade in connection with the death of tbe Chinaman at Tapanui?