CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13905, 2 December 1910, Page 8

CASUALTIES.

+ SUDDEN DEATH. Mr Thomas Mitchell, about 56 years of age, a commercial traveller from Auckland, who has boon staying at Warner'is, died suddenly on the Opawa tram last night. He was a passenger by the 9.4-5 p.m. tram from Opawa to town and soon after the tram left he was noticed by two ladies to fall back .suddenly, and he appeared to be in a critical'condition. Tho conductor was informed and the tram returned to Opawa and Dr. Tytheridge's services were obtained, but lifo was extinct when the doctor made an examination. The body was removed to the morgue. A man named l_eslie Kay, who was riding in ono of Mr Hay's paddocks at Pigeon Bay on Saturday last, met with p serious accident. It is supposed his horse slipped and he was thrown to the ground and rendered unconscious. The sufferer was brought in to the Akaroa hospital, and up to a lato hour on Wednesday had not regained consciousness. ' An inquest was held at the Courthouse. Little River, on Wednesday, touching the death of Isabella Litten, wife of Randall Litten, who died suddenly at Little River on Wednesday morning. After hearing evidence, the Coroner (Mr T. A. B. Bailey) returned a verdict of heart failure. (FItESS ASSOCIATION '_El,_ GRAMS.) AUCKLAND, December 1. Mark Ryan, a well-known horseman, was thrown at Ellerslie this morning and had three ribs broken. George Stewart O'Halloran. aged 65 years, committed suicide by cutting hi» throat at his home in Parnell this afternoon. No reason is assigned for the deed, beyond the fact that he had been out of sorts during tho last few days. He leaves a wife, a son, and three daughters, one of whom is mar-Tl-lAR.U, December 1. Alfred Knowles. aged 21 years, one of Messrs Dalgety and Co.'s stock agents, was killed on a road near the town this morning. He was driving a spirited horse in a sulky, and it i*-» supposed that his foot slipped over the shaft, and that he was caught in the stay of the shaft, thrown out, and dragged some distance. He was found under the wheel of the capsized vehicle. He was a son of the late Mr G. Knowles, a well-known horticulturist. INVERCARGILL, December 1. George Thomas Smyth, a well-known resident of Invercargill, and manager of the Southland Bread Company, was accidentally killed at 9.30 a.m. to-day. Deceased was stock-taking, and whilst in the engine-room the men employed in the bakehouse noticed that the machinery, which is driven by a gas engine, was slowing up. Going into the engine-room they found the deceased lying on the floor, with liis head being struck by the spokes of the fly-wheel of the engine. Apparently ho had slipped and fallen, with his head i through the fly-wheel. He was quite dead. Deceased was a prominent member of the Masonic body of the New Zealand Constitution, and was at one time Provincial Grand Master and Grand Superintendent of Southland in the Grand Lodge. He leaves a widow and a family of four, ranging from j eighteen to three years of 3ge. I