CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13547, 7 October 1909, Page 7

CASUALTIES.

''-—4- ' While a suburban farmer, who waa returning homo from market with a cartload of jpigs, was driving along Fitzgerald avenue yesterday evening, the "horse bolted and! oblKded with a tree near the intersection of Gloucester street. The impact was sufficient to precipitate the driver on to the and he sustained rather severe injuries to his face. Dr. C. Morton Anderson attended to him, and ho recovered sufficiently to he able to pursue his homeward journey,. (PKESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) GORE, October 6. An old man named James Bryson, better known as "Jimmy the Packer," about 75 years of age, was found dead in his bed at Waikaia this morning. He; was one of the fast disappearinc band of old diggers, and had resided there since the gold discovery. WELLINGTON, October 6. A verdict of death from injuries caused by a gunshot wound self-inflict-ed was returned as the result of an inquest on Maurice Matthews, who was found dead at Brooklyn yesterdey. Deceased had been in ill-health, xmd his wife said she thought he had been dahbling in horse racing and had* suffered losses. DUNEDIN, October 6. A single woman named Margaret Deverey, aged forty-nine years, died suddenly at Carey's Bay, near Port Chalmers, last night of heart failure.