CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14919, 18 March 1914, Page 9

CASUALTIES.

A man named J. Donald was brought 'in fromDarfield yesterday to the Christcnurch hospital, suffering from a frac- . tared right forearm, the result of a kick from a cow. Thomas Johnston, an employee of Bhand and Co., residing in Cashel Street, was auimitted to the Christ-t-hurch Hospital yesterday, suffering from severe bruises, sustained in a fall __. twenty feet from a stack of cases. (ntsss association -r-xxo&A-f.) GISBORNE, March 17. The; horses of the Opotiki-Motu coach ftrere startled by a burning tree falling 'at the side of the road. The coach ■was precipitated over a bank, a fall of SO feet. The coach received damage, but no one was injured. WANCTANTJI, March 17. _>t_ring the ladies* jumping competi<_cn at the Waverley A. and P. Show to-day; Mrs Becker and Miss Ada Nixon, "well-known Wanganui riders, ■were -brown from their horses- The farmer regained consciousness after tfeatinent and is being attended to at the Mouxnahaki State Farm. Miss Nixon was brought into a local private Iwspital. She is suffering from concussion of tho brain. Both aro progressing favourably. DUNEDLN, March 17. James Ross, a married man with Poor or five cHldren, was found dying cm the road at Green Valley to-day. Ho was taken to Dnnbaci, but died before a doctor arrived. . He was a shepherd and had been drfvjng a mob sf sheep. INVERCARGTLL, March. 17. A five-year-old boy named Crawford ■ras drowned in a pool near Bluff toiday. The boy and a companion were •crayfishing, when the little fellow fell - rrrto the water, and was drowned before Im_P could be obtained.