CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17811, 10 July 1923, Page 9

CASUALTIES.

*— It has been found that amputation ■will not be necessary in the case of Frank Empson, 19 years of age, son of Mr Ernest Empson, the well-known teacher of music, who fell under a -..ramway trailer at New Brighton on the 4ui inst. and had both of his legs badly crushed. (PEZSS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAMS.) AUCKLAND, July 0. Leslie Evans, a sen of E. Evans, of Mareretu, while assisting his brother to capture a cow and calf, was thrown from his horse and suffered a fracture of the skull. He died at a neighbour's house. The bov was an expert horseman. John Maclvor, 70, a settler of Paremorema, was found deal face downwards in the mud outeide his cookhouse. The evidence nt the inquest showed that Maclvor lived alone. The bodv had apparently been where found for one or two days. A verdict of suffocation through falling in the mud during a seizure was returned. TAUMARLNUI, July 9. Thomas Henley, 55, a single man, working at Ellis and Burnand s mills at Ongarue, was on his way to work this morning i n the Mangaturoto Valley when he had a fit of coughing, and died.

An inquest was held on the body of Louis Hill, who,dropped dead at the slip. A verdict in accordance with the medical evidence was returned, that death was due to natural causes, the actual cause being cerebral haemorrhage. Deceased was. aged 52, andi was in charge of a gang. Hastings, July 9. Eyias McFaul, 66, single, was found dead on the railway line some two hundred yards from Hastings station towards Napier. Injuries were found at the base of the skull and spine. He had evidently D een knockeddown by an earlier train arriving from Napier. PALMERSTON N., July 9. An inquest was held on the body of Mary Wilson, 47, a married woman, who died from injuries received while removing a table from one room to another. A verdict was returned that death was due to shock, following on injuries caused by accidentally falling over a tablat WELLINGTON, July 9. An unusually large number of accidents occurred during the week-end, tlw majority being due to football. Tivo players, Cecil Drew and J. Shannon, suffered fractured legs, and Maxwell Croskery slight concussion. All were admitted to the Hospital, where they are progressing favourably. The body of Harold Andrews, the second victim of the Hutt River fatality, has been recovered. WAIMATE, July 9. After sleeping, only partally clothed, in a half-open railway waiting-shed, Peter Anderson, (74), an old-age pensioner, was found unconscious and died shortly afterwards. Deceased's papers showed that he had been treated at the Ashburton Hospital this month under the name of Thomas Patterson, for the results of excessive drinking. The Coroner (Mr E. D. Mosley) returned a verdict that death was due to exposure, assisted by a. lowered vitality, consequent upon alcohol and cancer on ihe hp. DUNEDIN, July 9. Hector David Campbell, 14, was accidentally drowned in the Catlins river bn Saturday. Sarah O'Donovan Williamson died suddenly on Saturday. The cause of death was heart failure and influenza