FELL DOWN A SHAFT.
WELLINGTON, March 19,
The Minister of Mines has received a telegram from Clyde, stating that James Streetham, aged twenty-seven years, was suffocated at nine o’clock on Sunday morningin a coal-mine belonging to Mr Buckley, at Blackmans. He had descended the shaft in order to ascertain the depth of the water, and after being below for a few minutes was being hauled up by his brother, when he fell out of the bucket. He made a second attempt to ascend, but again fell to the bottom of the shaft, a depth of thirty-five feet.
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Evening Star, Issue 7474, 19 March 1888, Page 2
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97FELL DOWN A SHAFT. Evening Star, Issue 7474, 19 March 1888, Page 2
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