CASUALTIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9480, 3 December 1907, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

MAN'S BODY FOUND.

GISBORNE, December 2.

The body of a middle-aged man, well dressed, was found floating in the surf at Waikanae beach this morning. It appeared not to have been in the water long. The arms were folded across the breast. There was a wound in the back of the head from which blood was flowing. In a hip pocket was a Panama hat, and in the vest pocket a key with sl sixpenny piece attached, and a piece oi blue paper with "John Owens, Eniield road, Napier," written on it. The body has not been identified locally. It is supposed the man fell from the steamer Waikare yesterday and was not mi&sed.

NAPIER, December 2.

In reference to the telegram from Gisborne, enquiries have 'elicited the fact that Mr John Owens is at present in Napier. It is supposed from the description given that the body is that of a man named David James Young Kirk, in the employ of Nelson Bros., Limited, Tomoana, as a slaughterhouse clerk, and who left on transfer to uheir Gisborne branch on the 26th' November, but who has not put in. an appearance at the works there.

A nasty accident occurred at the Eltham railway station yesterday morning. Porter Arthur Clifford was engaged in shunting operations, and by some means got his right thigh between the buffers) of two trucks, and although the impact was comparatively slight he sustained a distressing wound and had to be driven to a doctor. No one seems to have been in the immediate vicinity at the time of the accident, and the injured man was found lying across the rails.