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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 185, 5 August 1913, Page 7

A man's escape from a terrible death is told in a telegram from White Cliffs published in the "Sydney Daily Telegraph" on Tuesday last. A miner, John Mayes, while removing 'logs from an abandoned sha-ft, was carried into the gaping month by moving earth. His eon, a mere lad, ran for assistance. An attempt was made to pnll the m&n out with a rope, bnt his body was tdgfetlv held by the loose rtmliock. Workers set to with. shove-Is to shift a dirnrp loft, high. Twice the men's head was -buried ont of ei™ht. He was ■fiimllj- released after four hours' imprisonment. He was not seriously injured, although exhausted after his thrilling adventure. His escape from death was a marveHous one, and dne to the efforts of tihe 20 men. who were kept going wibb shovels the whole time keeping back the fast miming loose earth, while oilrers trpje engaged extricating the entombed mast *ct the bottom, vi ~Vbi& chasm. The erecteon at Cambridge of a new uod up-to-date Methodist pamonage of concrete tots been let iotMr. 'Wm. Began,, th& prioe*«ng JOB*: