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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2069, 22 December 1869, Page 2

Military. — A letter from England received by the mail, says that Major-General tSir Trevor Chute dias been recalled from the command of her Majesty’s forces in Australia, but neither mentions his successor, nor assigns any reason for the recall. Mining Accident at Mocnt Ida. - Wc {Mount Ida ('/iroidc/f, 17th Dec.) regret to be again called upon to record another fatal accident from earthfall, which occurred on the morning of Friday last to Arthur Brompton Gurdon, one of the oldest ami most respected miners in this district. appeared from the evidence taken Coroner on the aftnmoon of the same I that the deceased was engaged in directing tlie hose against the face of his c’aim ou Surface Hill, sound ground being in his rear. When the fall, however, which had been undermined by the operation of the hose, gave way, it brought with it a large quantity o? the sound ground, beneath wdiieh deceased was standing. His mate (George Monroe) and a wages man named M‘Arthur, were wbhiu a few feet of the deceased when the fall took place, but were happily able to effect their escape. The deceased, however, from the peculiar position in winch he was placed—surrouu.led by the dchrl s of the tlrst fall, and by huge stones —was unable, though he saw the danger, to stir from the spot. From the largo (piantity of earth under which the deceased was buried, death must have been instantaneous.