CASUALTIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12872, 23 July 1906, Page 4

CASUALTIES.

About .11.30. a.m. yesterday, when Br Watt and his driver were driving along the Main road near Norms nby, the horse took fright at a motor bicycle, and ran into a gate, upsetting the trap und breaking it and throwing the occupants on to tho footpath. The. doctor was bruised and received a cut on the head, and: his driver was more or less bruised.' The horse was not hurt.

A serious accident occurred at the Manawatu railway station yard, Thorndon, Wellington, resulting in a young man named William Vine having both liis thighs brokenVine was working about the carriage shop, where some bogeys were being pushed in by an engine, and was accidentally caught between a bogey und the tender of the engine.

Mr E. Kempthorne, manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Ambertey, Canterbury, met with a rather serious accident on Friday evening. Ho left home at 5.20 p-m, to ride to the beach. By 3 pan. he had not returned, and a large search party was organised. The party searehed the Beach road and swamp, and! at 10 p.m. Mr Kempthorne's horse, whip, and cap wero foomd on the side of the roadl A further search with lanterns was made throughout the night, which was very cold and dark, and at daylight Mr Kempthorne was discovered wandering along the beach in a dazed condition. He was immediately brought to Amberley, and attended to by Dr Lester, who found him to be suffering from a slight concussion of the brain and exposure and bruises. He is now progressing favorably. A married woman, named Elizabeth French died suddenly at her residence, Thackeray street, Waltharo, Canterbury, yesterday morning. On returning home after a visit to town on Saturday she complained of pains in her chest. A doctor was sent for, and forwarded to her a bottle of medicine. The pains, however, continued, and: the woman died early yesterday morning, before the doctor, who had been sent for«.-second time, had arrived. At the inquest on Calvert Sands, the victim of the Roslyn tram accident, held on Saturday, the jury returned- a verdict to the effect that deceased wais killed while under the influence of drink by being accidentally run over by a tramcar, and that there was no blame attachable to anyone. James Wilson, a wharf lumper, who is married, and resides in Walker avenue, slipped when going into the hold of the Pukaki on Saturday evening, and broke an arm and leg. He was taken to the hospital. INVERCARtJILL, July 23..

Marian Ewing, aged twenty-six, daughter of Mr Joseph Ewing, sawmillear near Pembroke, fell into tin* lire in a fadnt, and was so serenely burned thai she died three hours later.

CHR-rSTCHDBCH, July 23. At the inquest to-day touching the death of Elizabeth French, married, aged forty, ■who d\ed suddenly yesterday nx>rning a verdacfc of dea£h from, gastric irritation -was returned.

F. J. Bidroeade, fifty-eight years of age, a member of the Conciliation Board, representing the workers, was found dead 1 in bed this morning. Bidmeade, was for many years a, compositor in the ' Lytetlton Times J Office before the lintoype waa introduced. Deceased had been, living by himself, and is supposed to have been dead for three days wheai found.