CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14289, 27 February 1912, Page 9

CASUALTIES.

"■ T (PRRSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND, February 26. Tho body of a man named Jamefl Gibbons, a labourer, was found in; the harbour yesterday.- In a pooket of the . coat was an unopened bottle of lysol. Gibbons left his lodgings three, weeks ago, and tho landlord supposed that he had gone to Wellington. Gwcndoiina Thomkins, a - single woman, aged 35 years, who had. been unwell for som© time, died suddenly yesterday. Sho had been attended by Dr. Parkes for ■ some days, and "was • apparently improving when sho was suddenly taken seriously ill and died before the doctor could reach her. Dr. Parkes refused a. certificate, and a posmortem revealed pregnancy, but nothing to cause death. An analysis of tbo stomach is to bo made; WELLINGTON, February 26. A man named William George Brett, aged .43 years, died in the Wellington Hospital on Saturday after tho application of an anaesthetic preparatory to an operation for tho removal of an abcess on the scalp. The coroner returned a verdict of death from heart failure. Thomas McGrath, who was taken to the hospital on Saturday in an unconscious condition, as tbo result of a collision between his motor-cycle and anotber machine, ha- recovered consciousness. It is not known yet whether or not his skull is fractured. Michael O'Brien, who sustained a fractured thigh on Saturday through a telegaph pole falling on him in iho Telegraph Department's yard, is showing improvement at the hospital.