DEATHS & CASUALTIES.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8129, 24 May 1912, Page 5

DEATHS & CASUALTIES.

CAR AND TAXI COLLIDE ONE MAN KILLED, ANOTHER INJURED. PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, M*y 23. A taxi-cab driven by William Curtis, and containing four others, collided with a tramcar at Epsom last night. Thomas Noonan, a single mani aged twenty-five, a resident- of .Parnell, lost his life, and Fred Cole' was seriously injured. ■ WOMAN’S TRAGIC MISTAKE. AUCKLAND. May 23. Lydia Ernestine Vassallo, a single woman, aged twenty-nine years, died this morning as the result of drinking spirits of salts in mistake for medicine. A FATAL DRAUGHT. HASTINGS, May 23. Charles King, about twenty-one, years of age, employed as porter at the Stortford Lodge Hotel,- while, it is said, suffering from insomnia, took a sleeping draught when retiring to bed on Monday night. All efforts to awaken him on Tuesday were futile, and a doctor ordered his removal to a private hospital, where he died last evening without regaining consciousness. MYSTERY CLEARED. AUCKLAND, May 23. The clothing found on the Mangere .beach, which was supposed to indicate ‘a fatality, has been claimed by a Maori woman and her daughter. DEATH OF GORE RESIDENT. GORE, May 23. A cable message was received to-day stating that Mrs John Mac Gibbon, who left on April sth in the company of her husband, son, and daughter, on a trip to America and, England, died at Winnipeg yesterday from pneumonia. She was long a resident ®f this town, and was highly esteemed. She leaves a widower, five sons, and two daughters. ,