CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVI, Issue 14912, 3 December 1912, Page 11

CASUALTIES.

——♦ • NORTH LYELL MINE. STILL HOT AND GASSY. Preys Association—By Tel. —Copyright. ( HOBART, Dec. 2. Tho 500 feet level at North Lyell has been explored, aud a body, supposed to bo that of Park, discovered. There is no sign of fire in the 400 and 500 feet levels, but the temperature i.-i higher than it should have been, indicating apparently that tiie fire is not extinguished. Owing to the fumes no attempt has been made to remove tho body that -was left in the cage. AN ANCIENT CLAIM. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec 2. The Supremo Prize Court dismissed the claims-of tho American cargo owners in connection, with the sinking of the Knight Commander, in July, 190-1, by a Russian cruiser. BOY WITH GUN AGAIN. "DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS LOADED/' Peu Press Association. STiX.ATFORD, Dec. 2. Arthur Fred Lawrence, aged 18 years, was the victim of a fatal shooting accident at Toko on Saturday night. A circus was to have performed in the township that evening but failed to arrive. Lawrence with a number of companions was running a mock circus in a- room used as a gymnasium. A -duel was announced between Lawrence and a | boy named Corbett, aged 17. The boys I took down two shot guns from the walls and commenced tho duel. Lawrence j snapped tho trigger repeatedly; then | Corbett responded. There was a" loud report and Lawrence fell, the charge lodging in his jaw and throat. Dr ■Stevens was summoned and the unfortunate lad was conveyed to Stratford hospital, but died shortly after admittance. • An examination of the gun showed that both barrels had been left loaded. Louis Neale, aged 28, whose parents reside at was drowned while bathing from a yacht at Auckland, on Saturday'afternoon. He was a strong swimmer, but subject to fits, a result of fever contracted in South Africa. Arthur Kirk, a married man, and wharf labourer, aged. 50 years, who w'as knocked down by a runaway horse in "Willis street, Wellington, on Saturday, dit-d in the hospital on Sunday i.i.rht. At Greymouth yesterday morning a man named William Greenhalgh, aged 2-j, was caught in tho winch of the ! steamer Awahou, and had his head ■ crushed, three strands of the rope going I round the trunk of his body. He was conscious when liberated, but only lived a couple of hours. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. GLSBORNE. Dec 2. Mk-tiacl McCormack, aged about 40, a. roadman at, M'otu. shot him-elf in tho thigh <m Sunday while pig-hunting, tho -shotiislintoring the bono. A special train brought'him to Gisbovno at an early hour this morning, and he died at the hospital to-night.