CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17728, 3 April 1923, Page 7

CASUALTIES.

An eleven-year-old boy, Herman Dunlop, son of the licensee of the Imperial Hotel, Christehurch, received a severe wash on his foot "while playing with a trolley on a wharf at Lyttelton yes turdav. He was attended by Dr. C. 11. Lphani, who put in seven stitches, the boy being later conveyed to his home. During a football match at -Akaroa yesterday bet-ween Albion and a local team, a" resident of the Bays named Armstrong, who had consented to play in order to fill a vacancy in the team, had his shoulder broken.

(pItZSS ASSOCIATION TBLEGEAM.) GLSBOENE, April 2. While playing with a young boy at her home at'Motuhora, a three-year-old girl named Patricia Grantham was shot by the lad with a pea-riilc. 'The boy, who did not know the rifle was loaded, pointed it at the girl and pulled the trigger, the bullet penetrating her cheat. The girl was brought to town by the evening train and admitted to hospital. IXVERCARyIi>L, April 2.

Alexander Wilson, a stock buyer, ar'ed 4", committed suicide in a private ho-pita! by lumping himself from a chain !ixed above his fced. He had been in bad health for some time and was 'nervous and despondent. He was a married man. Robert Eo?s At Gregor. 5J years of age, fell under a moving train. His foot wa s partially severed. He was admitted to hospital where he is in a serious condition.