CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3395, 9 April 1919, Page 15

CASUALTIES.

William James Hiokey was drowned in toe Buller River on Sunday, 30th ult. According to the Clutha Leader an elderly tpan named Thomas Taylor, a pioneer resident of the Wairuna district, met with a flasty accident on Sunday morning. Whilst broceeding to church he was thrown out of tis gig, sustaining several broken ribs and painful bruises.

Mrs Robinson, 71 years of age, died on the steamer Maori on the 2nd on the trip from Wellington to Lyttelton. On arrival at Lyttelton a doctor gave a certificate that death was due to heart failure. The deceased, with her husband, /*yas on her way from New Plymouth to visit her daughter in Christchunch. -"■

Private W. P. Goodling, of Featherston, died in the Greytown Hospital on Saturday, 29th ult., as the result of injuries sustained in, a motor accident some days previously. %t appears that he, with his brother Oharles, was returning from the Medical Board, &nd was going to visit his sister, Mrs H. Wenham, of South Featherston, when on crossing from one side of the road to the other, on account of new metal on the road, the car skidded and overturned. Deceased was pinned by the windscreen, the glass penetrating his left hip and holding aim down. Charles Gooding, the driver, ©ad his right arm broken. 'Both men were Conveyed to Greytown Hospital, where they received immediate attention. The .case of Iprfyate W. F. Gooding was very serious, and although the best of attention was given he passed away on the 29th. He was' the fourth son of the late Mrs Jacob Gooding, of Western Lake, and was 36 {years of age. He had only returned from the front about three weeks ago, after an (u»enco of over two years, having left with ihe 19th Reinforcements. A nasty accident befell Mr L. Dasler, ? well-known Tokarahi farmer, on Tuesday, st inst. Whilst engaged completing the evening. Whilst engaged completing the stacking of wheat (states the Oamaru Mail) &e in some unaccountable way fell off the sfcack, and, catching his foot in the spokes of a wheel of a dray,- snapped his leg a little above the ankle. He was brought into Oamaru. and was planed in a private hospital. He is progressing favourably. A well-known Cambridge business man named Frederick Potts was found dead in the Domain at an early hour on the 4th. There was a bullet wound in his head. He had been worrying about his health lately. The body of a child not fully developed luraa found in the Wanganui River. It was in canvas similar to that used for jnotor oar hoods. An inquest was held at Christchuroh on Edward Francis M'Girr, 6£ years, who died 'fta the result of injuries sustained through peing run over by a motor oar. A verdict Was returned that the boy met his death as the result of an accident, there being no evidence of negligent driving. The coroner kdded a rider that the practice of children (h running at the rear of travelling vehicles TJras highly dangerous, and that the attention of members of the education boards £nd of school committees should be directed to the practice, Alfred M'Lean, a married returned (soldier, was admitted to the Southland Hospital a little while < ago because he was morose and low-spirited. He Was found lying on the floor in the bathroom of the Institution, suffering from the effects of poison on Thursday evening, and he died shortly afterwards. It is believed that the poison was self-administered, but it is not Jcnown how he obtained it. George Sidney Connor, a married man, Was knocked down by a train at the King street level crossing at Newmarket, Auckland, on tho 4th, and died next morning. Harold St. John Jones, driver of the tnotor cycle and side-chair from which lAlfred Arthur Amyes was thrown near Kiaituna on March 25, sustaining fatal injuries, was well enough this morning to attend the adjourned inquest. Giving evidence, ho said that when he was approaching the corner of the road a dog rushed pub, and in trying to avoid the dog he Swerved off a good part of the road on to fhe shingle, which was pretty deep. The Cycle seemed to slide along a few feet and ttverturned. A verdict was returned that Amyes died as tho result the accident, and that the evidence negatived negligent Striving. Mr John Thompson, a well-known resident of Killinchy, was thrown out of a lamp and killed instantaneously.