Pierre Marie, a seaman of the French cruiser Le Champlain who was injured by a fall when the vessel was in dock, died in the Auckland Hospital at midnight on June 2nd from concussion of the brain. The deceased was accorded a military funeral by the Ponsonby and Auckland Naval Volunteer Companies, under Cap tain Millar and Lieutenant Parker, which escorted the remains of the late French sailor from town across to the Devonporfe Cemetery, North Shore, where the inter ment took place, the customary three volleys being fired over the grave. Hunfcer'e Artillery Band was also present and played the "Dead March."

A railway brakesman, James Robb, was killed on May 26 at Lumsden (Southland) during a shunting operation. He was on a brake lever of a truck, and it is supposed he slipped, and staggering back his foot caught in the frog of the points, so that he was thrown longitudinally on the rails, and the waggon passed over him, causing instant death.
A sad accident occurred on May 26fch at North Albertland, which resulted fatally to a young man named Prank Wharfe. He and his brother Albert were cross-cutting a kauri log about 3 feet in diameter on hill side country in the bush. On the log being cut through, one half of it, twenty feet long, shot forward and rolled on to Wharfe, who tripped and fell in his haste to get clear. The log rested on his body, and it was ten minutes before the unfortunate fellow could be got clear. He was dead, however, and had evidently been killed in stantly. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Accidentally killed by the roll ing of a log." The deceased was only twenty-four years of age.
