CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13094, 20 April 1908, Page 9

CASUALTIES.

About a quarter to eight o'clock on Saturday ovening two men standing in the roadway near tlie Clock Tower were knocked down by a horse attached to a cab. One of the men-, named Kelland, received injuries which necessitated his removal to the hospital, and ho was conveyed thero in the ambulance. His injuries were not of a serious character, though he will not be .able to leave the hospital for a day or so. , _ . A young man named Delanoy was brought from Kaiapoi to the hospital last "light suffering from ln-juries received in a trap accident at \\ oodcnd. Ho only regained consciousness when he reached the hospital. His injuries are understood to be not of a serious nature.

(press association telegrams.) AUCKLAND, April 16. A seven-year-old girl named Barbara Becher, whilst playing with others in somo empty trucks at Ahuroa, fell on tho rails, and a wheel of a truck passed cvor her leg. The child was sent by special train to the Auckland Hospital, but she died on the journey. AUCKLAND, April 18. A young man named Alfred Henry Coxhead, of Miranda, is now lying iv a serious condition at the Auckland District Hospital, as they result of a fall •from a train. Coxhead came to Auckland in tho early part of this week, and had all his upper row of teeth extracted. He left by t_o ten o'clock exrpress yesterday, bound for Drury, en route for his home. When the train was nearing Drury Coxhead left his seat in the carriage and walked out on to the plattorm. According to a fellowpassenger he appeared to step off the platform in an attempt to alight from the train. Finding it was travelling faster than he imagined, ho clutched tho step, and was dragged along for about half a chain, when weakness overcame him, and he dropped to the ground. When picked up lie was unconscious, and it was apparent that he had sustained serious injuries to the base of his skull. _-,',__■■ On Thursday nght, as the late tram to Thames was approaching Matatoke, a serious accident happened. Two of the railway surfacemen who were pulling along on a jigger, evident.lv did not notice a train following, with tho result that they wore run into by the train. As soon as the driver saw tlre accident, he pulled' up, and found the men were badly injured. They were taken on board the train and thence to the Thames Jaospital. INVERCARGILL, April 19. Three men, Charley Brown, George Sa under*, aaid '"Banjo" Janes went out fishing in -an oil launch from Riverton on Friday morning, and it is lcaml they are drowned. Shortly after noon a gale (fierce, though short-lived) sprang up. The men did not return, and search parties went out. On Saturday the boat was found washed ashore on Riverton beach. Enquiries along the coast have failed, so far, to reveal traces of the men.

DUNEDIN, April 18. At the inquest on tho volunteer named J. Logic, who was killed on a train on Thursday night, the chief witness said that deceased was crossing from one carriage to another, when he slipped and fell between. Deceased had had no drink whatever. A verdict of accidental death was returned.

__ GISBORNE, April 18. At tho inquest on Catherine HolKer, who died whilst under chloroform, a verdict was returned that no blame was attachable to anyone.

TAIHAPE, April 18. ' The three-year-old child of Mrs Woolnough, postmistress at Torere, has died from injuries from burns she received during her mother's absence.

BLENHEIM, April 18. Scott Harding, who was mysteriously injured on the Grove road on Wednesday night, died at the Hospital at 1.30 yesterda.*** afternoon, never having regained consciousness. His head was frightfully smashed, and it is unlikely t_?.t it was the result of a fall from his horse, as at first suggested. Harding, who of late years, has boon frequently intoxicated, was known to have imbibed excessively on the evening of the occurrence, and is said to have drawn money out of a bank during tho day. The police are reticent, and a detective is making enquiries. Tho inquest was to have been held this morning, but was adjourned till Tuesday in order to get something" definite.