THE HUNTLY PROSECUTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 35, 11 February 1891, Page 5

THE HUNTLY PROSECUTIONS.

(by telegraph.—own correspondent.)

Huntly, bhis day. The Courb resumed ab 9.30 a.m. yesber" day. A. Gall concluded his evidence. E Rippon was bhen examined. He and Gall described the mode of constructing the false sets. They used short lengths fsix by three) for the sole pieces, which did nob go across the dip. Nothing was placed between the ends of bhem. .R. A. Adams, mine manager, engineer and expert, waa next examined. His Worship read quobabions from laylor on Evidence as bo bhe importance to be attached to the evidence of experts. Witness sbated having examined bhe dip where the accident happened. He described parts of the timbering as defective. The legs should be aa large as the cap pieces and fixed ab righb angles bo bhe floor. He found some almosb vertical. Ihe legs of the false sets should be six by six. He considered it unsafe to rest them upon short pieces of timber two feet long, even if pies had been driven under them. In ground like the dip there should be two false sets. He thought better work mighb have been done in bhe fixing of bhe main sets.