CASUALTIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10639, 12 July 1920, Page 5

CASUALTIES

A FRIGHTFUL DEATH .MAN FALLS INTO BOILING POOL. A Press Association telegram from Rotorua last night stated that about 7 o'clock on Saturday evening, Edward xving, assistant clerk in the Magistrate's Court, lost his life through accidentally stepping in the dark into a hot hole in the native reserve, Whakarcwarewa. Tho deceased was visiting Maori friends, and had ]ust lett the house to go to a shop when he disappeared from view. A Maori saw tho occurrence and gave the alarm. Nothing was seen in the hole, which is about thirtv-thrce feet deep' with boiling water ten or twelve feet below the ground. Tho Maoris worked strenuously to recover the body, and communicated with the police. Constables Jqhnson and Neil went to tho scene witji ropes and a grappling iron, and at 10 o'clock the bodv was recovered by a Maori, who leaned into tho rising steam and who was held bv the feet by another native on the bank. The body was removed from the hole by means of a rope. The deceased was a returned soldier, single, and about thirty years of age. Ho was a brothor of Mr H. S. King, formerly Registrar of the Native Land Court at Rotorua. AN AUCKLAND FATALITY. An Auckland telegram states that a man named George Mirfin, aged 68, was knocked down by a bicycle and died in the hospital on Saturday night from concussion and shock. The deceased was a resident of Ponsonby. ACCIDENT ON TAHITI. TWO ENGINEERS SCALDED. The voyage of the R.M.S. Tahiti to Auckland was marred by an accident to two engineers working on her after hor arrival. It appears that A. J. Perry and H. F. Smith, both of whom are employed by the United Repairing Co., wore in tbe engine-room when a boiler tube burst. Perry was badly scalded over j.ho head and shoulders, while Smith's slighter injuries were confined to one side of his face and his shoulders. MOTOR-CAR FATALITY. A CARELESS DRIVER. At tho adjourned inquest into the death of Maria Turner, the elderly lady who was knocked down a fortnight ago by a motor-car driver. John Campbell Johnstone, and who died within an hour, the coroner found that the deceased died of injuries accidentally received through being knocked down by the '.car. He added that the evidence showed want of care on the part of Jalmtsone, and the matter was ono for the consideration of the police.