CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3292, 18 April 1917, Page 19

CASUALTIES.

Mr Alfred Hall, masseur, of No. 1 Clarke street, died suddenly at his resiv dence on Wednesday morning. He was drink> ing a cup of tea when he fell back on tha 6ofa on which he was sitting, and expired. Dr Colquhoun, who had attended Mr HalJ in the past for heart disease, gave a ficate as to the cause of death, and an inquest was considered unnecessary. A man named George Young, 39 years of , age, - ' a farm, hand employed i by MM Alexander, of Green Island, was admitted; to the Plospital on the 11th suffering froai injuries be received through being goredj by a cow whioh he was turning out of h, byre. As far as can bo ascertained he is hurt in the abdomen. A girl aged 16 years, an inmate of the Christchurch Receiving Home, who was licensed out to a lady at Rakaia, as> tempted to commit suicide on the 10th by cutting her throat (says the Christchurch Press). The girl, who was taken to the Christchurch.. Hospital, is said to have been despondent for several days past. Harry M'Cabe, a fireman employed by the Auckland' Farmers' Freezing Company, was found dead in the stokehold on tha 16th inst. under circumstances which gest that he was electrocuted. Hazel T'onaon, seven years of age, was in Auckland on the 16th inst. knocked down and killed by a taxi-oar driven by Edward Victor Nelson, who states that the child ran from behind a tramcar. He applied the brakes, but the car skidded and struck the child. The headless body of J. V. M'Donald, aged about 32 years, was found on Sunday at the foot of a high cliff on tha river bed at Winiata. Taihape, in an advanced state of deoomportion. It is supposed to be a case of suicide.