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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 733, 4 February 1910, Page 6

Ten men' lost their.-lives in a. ttrriblt disaster which "has occurred fat - the' Cap. ' rington cod! mine,: near Eilmarnock. ' Foi two days' there' had been 'incessant : rain : . following ■a ', period, of snow 'and ice. and, the'-Riyer'lrvine, which runs five hundred : yards- awa.y : fromtthe ; mirie;ioverfibwed?itj ■; • banks. r Part-of v the-mine runfc'"under-the , river and -«thw' from-a-sabadence or::the !f100d,,-.the: river; rushed"; into' tlw : "mine, w-here'■ sixteen men : working.. FiveVmeh:.arid' five boys. were • drowned, caught .like -rats, irf "ar-.trapS-five off'the; others, escaped,vhowever,", up' a fire shaft,' , the-'dirCotions of'a miner; who was well acquainted'with theright roads : v for escape;-;:' The sixth'. made..' an-almbst. miraculous escape'Up the-main fchaftiii-yV'.' -■ Tenders are invited-by ilr. 11. T. Johns, architect, .. for ; the. erection •of 'two residences at Hataitai.. ' : To-morrow,'■at' K 2'p.m:.' : llr.'-Newton f Klni i will-auotion the Puketotara'-EstaW; at bit auction mart, Devon Street; wNew Ply. moutb., Particulars.are advettieedin thli issue. ; : . ;. . -v ; Stewart • Idand oysters will arrive ■tt Palmer's, Lambton. Quay,. to-day.' ■