CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12498, 8 May 1906, Page 8

CASUALTIES.

« ' An employee of Messrs Edtnende an<! J Page was takon to the Hospital yesterday suffering from tevere internal in* 1 juries, caused through comiug in con-. I tact with a piece of thuber. . Tho police have received a message from Mothven, giving; details of tho acoident by which tho head ' ' dicpherd on the Mesopotamia station, . named Ernest Oscar Charles Gilinaa, ■ ' was kLIJcd ky slipping and faliingott the I frozen surface of a steep spur on the station on the 4th in&t., whon in^t*;!- ,- ing. When the other ehephordi J»b '. down off the hills with their sheep jGtl- .J man was missing, and a se-,arch.<f*rty -. ', 1 was at once organised. The body or w> ."■■ ■ ceas?d was found at 1 a.m. on the 6th, • • inst. with the dogs guarding it. It k' , ., > preeumed that ho was killrc ineUn- ' • tanoously by tho fall, as the ground it" • treacherous, a covering of snow hayI ing been frozen, by severe frosts. If the " rivcj - was <at all fordable the body was" ) to arrive at Mount Soniera yeeterday, wheie an inquest was to be held. I 1 A boy named Froggart was riding "" 1 Ills bicycle- along Hign street yoster- " day, canning & parcel of boots, when ~ ■ a cart pulJed in front of him, And, i being unable to stop, he ran into tho ' vcliicle. with tho result that he received ' such injuries as neoe£sit<atod )i» ' removal to the Hospital.

(PKESB ASSOCIATION' TXLEGH-UCS.) AUCKLAND. May ,7. John Fitzgerald, aged 78, a Gotoj mandel prospector, missing einco Friday, - was found dead yesterday at the bottom " of an old overgrown air shaft. The neck I was 'broken, and tho body otherwise . badly mutilated. I WELLINGTON,. Me y > 7 ' Fred. Marshall, an electric oar con- • 5 dtictor, sustained concussion, of tho braiti through being struck on tho lieed by '■ a tramway polo, while leaning from the » top of a double-decker. ' - ; , A youth named MarshaH had hie kg - broken while playing football at Mil* , mar on Saturday. DUNEDIN, May 7. j James Stuart, 74 years of age, an u> ■ mate of the Old Men.'s Home, w«i choked yesterday whilo eating an orange J given him by a visitor. J NAPIER. May 7. I A man named William White, dairy . farmer and pork butcher, of Greeomeadows, left home this morning to : go to Fernhill. but not having returned i this evening a f.earch was made for ! him. His horse and cart wore found, ■ and a note -was stuck in his hat, which indicated that ho intended to oonnnjt suicide. .Up to the present the body [ has not been discovered.