CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17207, 26 July 1921, Page 8

CASUALTIES.

A married man named J. B. Foster, residing 1 atfDarfield, was bush-felling yesterday, when f*charge.of explosive went off prematurely, with the result that Foster's right hand was severely injured. He was taken to the Christi phuroh 'Hospital, where two fingers were i i ''amputated from the top joint. His ..condition, early: this morning was reI; ported to be fair.'

.'■ (press • association telegrams.) ■;.. ■ WELLINGTON, July :25; A taxiTcab from Wellington to Wairarapa on Saturday, went over a gully on the Rimutaka Hill. In the taxi, which was' driven by Frank Dennes, taxi-owner, of Greytown, were ten passengers, but only one was hurt. This was Thompson Turei, who spine was injured. He was taken to the Greytown Hospital, and there lies in a critical condition. The other passengers are suffering from shock ; and bruises. I A woman, believed to be a Mrs Smith, Suffered concussion by falling from, or being run over by, a motorcar in the Ngahauranga Gorge. She was, conveyed to a private house and later to a private hospital, where it. is.reported she has not regained consciousness. . v __-,' AUCKLAND, July 25. Miss Anderson, a middle-aged woman, while singing at the Devonport Presbyterian Church, dropped her hymn book ahd fell on'the floor. When she was carried out a doctor pronounced her dead. The cause is believed to have been a clot of blood on the brain. BLENHEIJIi Julv 25. .' George William Daikee,- 85, wa's found dead hi' a whare, from a gunshot wound; 7 He left a note saying that he was tired of life, and intended to shoot himself; ' /