CASUALTIES.

Evening Star, Issue 11725, 7 April 1902, Page 4

CASUALTIES.

When the seven o'clock tram was going from Papanui to Christchurch on Saturday night, and when near the NorthBelt, Maiy Brown, twenty - three years of age, endeavored to jump off while the caTB were in motion, and fell lieneath the car. Tha tram went over both legs, inflicting frightful injuries. She was taken to the hospital, but died there- shortly after midnight. She was the daughter of Mr Peter Brown, of Akaroa, and niece of Mr Campbell Brown, of Lyttelton. A yoil'.g girl named Alice Phipps, daughter of Mr Sydney Phipps, Sydenham, was found dead "in a bath yesterday. It is thought that she had a fit. An Auckland message states that tha nine-year-old son of Alfred Hnxford, who was injured in the knee while playing seesaw on the 3rd inst., died yesterday before the doctor arrived.

A sailor named Farmer, while working the winches on the Burnrmbeet at the wharf, got his fingers caught in the machinery. The injured fingers wie dressed at the hospital. They were not so badly hurt as to necessitate amputation.

CARTERTON, April 7. The body of Mrs Sullivan, lost three weeks was found yesterday in a dense chimp of gorse, about 500 yards from the railway line, in an opposite direction from where the batr was found. The body was much decomposed. CKRISTCHURCH, April 7. Homy Watts, a carpenter, aged about sixty-three, died suddenly at Linwood this morning.