DUNEDIN.
October 21
The store and dwelling-house of Mr George Bell, postinasier at Inch Clutha,
has been burnt down. The place was insured in the Colonial office for £900, but tbe loss is estimated at £300 over the insurance.
A fatal accident happened on Wednesday morning, aboat 8 o'clock, at Adams Flat, near Milton. John Paskell, a settler of that place, was at work stripping a seam of coal. He had removed a large quantity of earth, leaving an embankment ten feet in height, when his son, who was working at a little distance off, observed the earth suddenly fall upon his father. He immediately rushed to his father's aid, and after doing what he could sent for further assistance. Dr. Reid was on the Bpot as soon as possible, but on examination he found that life was extinct. Death must have been instantaneous, as the skull was litterally shattered to fragments.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3522, 21 October 1882, Page 3
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