CASUALTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13587, 8 May 1906, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

■» : (Pxb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May V. John- Fitzgerald, aged 78, a Coromandel prospector, who has been missing sinco Friday, was found dead yesterday' at tho bottom-of an old overgrown air shaft. His neck was broken, and the body otherwise badly mutilated. WELLINGTON, May 7. Fred Marshall, ah electric car conductor, sustained concussion of the brain through being struck on tho head by a tramway jxile while leaning from the top of a double-decker. . CHRISTOHimCH, May 7. ; The police have received a message from Mcbhven stating that the head shephord on tho Mesopotamia Station, named Ernest Oscar Charles Oilman, was killed by slipping and falling on the'frozen surface of a steep spur on tho station 1 on tho 4th inst. when mustering. When the other shepherds got-down off the hills with their sheen Gilman was missing, and a search party was at once organised. The body of deceased was found at 1 a.m. on the slh inst.. with tho dogs guarding it. It is presumed that he was killed instantaneously by the fall, as l.he ground is treacherous, a covering of snow having keen frozen bv severe frosis. If tho river is at all fovdab'c, the body will arrive at Mount Somers at 3 p.m. to-day.