CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13902, 29 November 1910, Page 9

CASUALTIES.

On Friday night Miss 3farshall, of Bangiora, fell over n cutting on tho Cashmere Hills ami badly sprained both wrists and injured her buck. A man named l>. Collins met with a serious accident whilst driving cattla on Mr B. Tulley's property at Springfield yesterday morning. It scorns Collins was riding a rather spirited horse which suddenly and threw the rider, the latter sustaining a severo fracture of the Imj bout. Tho injured man -was convoyed to Dr. GoWing at Methven, who attended to his injuries. . " An engineer named Hector ItobeoD, whilst engaged in inbtalling an electric crano at the Addinf. f ,t.oii Kailvny Work- .. shops shortly after noon yesterday., fell . ■ from the crane to the floor, a disi>aiic«. of some fifteen feet, receiving, , £t» - . fractured ■••ribs and a dislocated arm, ,r 1 and bursting a bloodvessel m his ' stomach.. He wa» removed to his honae - . ■ and ix>ceived medical attention. . . '"'.".•

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TKLBGRjUI.) „ «, I ASUBURTOX, November 28: - ; I A fourteen-year-old boy named Herbert Holmes was picked up thistmorn-' ing in Tancred street in an unconscious condition. He had been sent to bnng a horse from a paddock some distance away, and it is supposed that Iks at- , tempted to ride the auinml bare back, and was thrown. off. He suffered a compound fracture of the skull, and is in a critical condition. WELLINGTON, November 28. Guy Cxmpton, aged threo years, a soil of Mr Thomas Compton, of Rhodes street, fell into a bath of boiling water at liis parents' residence last night. Ho was bao.ly scalded, and died in tho Hospital this morning. The mother was preparing the bath, and during her absence the child pushed open tho bathroom door and fell into the water. Miss Louisa Adams, a patient in tho hospital since October 18th last, died in the institution to-day while under an anaesthetic for tho purposes of an operation. An expressman named James Craig fell from his express this evening. Hβ was picked up unconscious and taken to the hospital. His injuries appear to be of a serious nature.