CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15751, 18 November 1916, Page 11

CASUALTIES.

SOLDIER'S TRAGIC) DEATH. Tho circumstances attending the death of Private Murdock Mclver, a specialist attached to the 19th Reinforcements, whose body was found at 2\o. 35 Thorndon Quay, early on Wednesday afternoon, were of a peculiar and tragic nature (says the "Wellington ''Post"). According to the information received by the police, Mclver ■was a boarder at the house, and got out of bed in tho morning in order to go out. While he was away the house tv as fumigated with a deadly poison known as nydro-cyanic, and locked up. It seems that Mclver went back to the house, and finding the doors locked, got in through a baok window. Mrs Dawson, the landlady, returned to the house at about 1-30 o'clock, and found Mclver lying on the floor of a room with his head on a tin box, close to tho window. He was taken into the fresh air, but when subsequently examined by Dr. Faulke he was quite dead. It is apparent that death was due to McIvcr inhaling tho poisonous fumes. It is understood that Mclver had been drinking to excess prior to his death.

DEATH OX THE MAORI. On the arrival of the Maori at Wellington from Lyttelton on Wednesday morning, Captain Manning reported to tho police t/io death of a saloon passenger named Herbert -Xalder. Deceased, who was a stationholder at Lake Tekapo, ill the Fairlie district, was single, thirty-nine years of age, and was on his way to Auckland for the benefit of his health. He occupied cabin 33 with Mr Alfred William Fielder, who stated that during the night Nalder had fits of coughing, but made no complaint. In the morning Mr Fielder got up at about 7 o'clock, spoke to deceased, and told him he would go out of the cabin in order that ho might have it to himself. Deceased thanked him. At S o'clock, in answer to tho bell, a steward, Leonard Rhodes, went to the cabin and found deceased standing near the door in a state of collapse. He was unable to speak, and as Jio appeared to be falling, Rhodes caught liim and eased him to tho floor of the cabin. Deceased never moved or spoke again, and Dr. Brockway, who saw the body soon afterwards, could only pronounce life to be extinct. Deceased, who had, an attack ,of haemorrhage of the lungs about twe.lvo months ago, was accompanied by his sister, Mrs George Murray. As the doctor_ at Fairlie who had been attending Nalder will give a certificate, it was not necessary to hold an inquest. SAD ACCIDENT to automobile resulted in painful injuries to occupants, but Dr. Sheldon's Magnetio Liniment quickly healed all wounds. Price, Is 6d and 3s. Obtainable everywhere. u