CASUALTIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12873, 24 July 1906, Page 4

CASUALTIES.

The ooastable at Qpdtdki (AhdtfaSd) b£# telegraphed that a Maori riaiiifed Sairrakl was .acddeStally. kilted through a diav which he wag.. driving, being capSzJed ai the Waifoka Gorge road, about; nine ibilei from' Optftiki. Arthur Matibjesbn, secretary of the Wav-erley-Waitbtara Racing Glut) arid a weflkriown corrimissioii agent at WateHey, nestr Wangaritii, was accidentally shot at Whennakiira yesterday morning. He was gettitig through a fence, when his gtrfi went off. A serioug accident, occdrred iii Manners Btreet, Wellington, about three tfclbck yesterday aftgrribort Mrs Spring', whose husband is a ffeheh polisher, einployed in the city, was ea-ofesteg the street, when she.noticed that a tramcar going towards VT3lw sti>eet was almost upon her. She made an effort to get off the linOj but was caught by tbo and thrown, on to' the o&r line, almost under the wheels of another car; which wag comJng from Tlomdon. This car brought up almost instantly, but. too late to avoid inflicting serious mjuries on Mrs Spring. Her left leg was fractured arid her head and body exit, arid her evstetn abm received a severe shoek. She wal reinoved to the hospital.

A body in a decomposed state, supposed to be that of Harry Skeet, fireman on the Moura, drowned en the Bth of last month, was found in the Bulier River yesterday.