CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 17 December 1925, Page 7

CASUALTIES.

WEST COAST TRAGEDY. J3v To'pj'ranb—Prasa Association. GREYMOUTH, December 16. A young man named Hansel Stokes (19), whose- parents reside at Pokino, Auckland, was found dead to-day. He loft McVicar’s farm, Alexander Reefs, at 8 o’clock to catch a horse. As he ■did not return, William McVicar* searched, and found his body, with a; bullet wound under the chin, and al rifle lying alongside. ACCIDENTAL DEATH. A verdict of accidental death, the result of being struck by a stone falling from a truck, was returned at the inquest on Edward Spark, the victim of the Cobden quarry accident. MOTOR-CYCLIST’S DEATH. By Toleuraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, December 16. Clarence Ward, aged 23, who was injured on December 2nd through a motor-cycle ho was riding colliding with a motor-lorry in tlio city, died in hospital this evening. THE ELECTROCUTION TRAGEDY. By Telegraph—Press Association HAMILTON, December 16. The shocking tragedy which occurred at Tauwhare, nine miles from Hamilton, on Saturday, when. Mark Webb (60) married, and his grandson, Walter Murray Collet (7), were electrocuted through coming into contact with a wire fence, which had been heavily charged with current by a fallen power iine, was investigated to-day before Mr Wyvern Wilson, Coroner. The evidence mainly turned upon the point whether the Central Power Board had been notified that tho lino had fallen. m , , , The postmaster at Tauwhare declared that he wrang up tho Board’s office about two hours before the tragedy br_ tho staff denied receipt of any such message. The Coroner said that as tho evidence was contradictory ho could not go further into the point. He could only" return a formal verdict that deceased met their death through misadventure by coming into contact with a fcuce charged with electricity, as a result ot a limb-tension wire, controlled by.the Central Power Board, falling on it. DEATH FROM INJURIES. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, December 16. Gordon Inglis (16), admitted to hospital last week with injuries caused by Killing on the blades of disc harrows at Albany, died last night. TRAGEDY AT BLENHEIM. By Telegraph-Press Association BLENHEIM, December 16. Ernest George Edwards (50) a joiner, hung himself in an outhouse of his dwelling in Rcdwoodtowu this morning. 1-Je recently suffered a breakdown and had been depressed for some time.