The News Confirmed.

Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 1410, 15 April 1902, Page 2

The News Confirmed.

Wellington, This Day. The Acting-Premier received the following cable early this morning from South Africa, through His Excellency the Governor : — Following killed in railway accident at Mochavie on 12th inst. Private J. Harris, Athol, Southland. Private F. L. D. Lowe, Styx, Canterbury. Private A. H. McDonald, Oamaru. Private V. H. Brown, Sheffield, Canterbury. Private P. Rogers, Woodhaugh, Dunedin. Private M. Cauty, Longbush, Southland. Private A. F. Leers (otherwise W. Foss), Waihi, Auckland. Private R. Osborne, Middlemarcn, Otago. Private J. Bruce, Oamaru. Private J. Maloney, Little River, Canterbury. Private C. Bourne, Christchurch. Private J. C. Simpson (relatives unknown.) Private J. H. Jones, Southland. The following were dangerously injured: — Private H. Brown, Denniston, Westport. Private A. E. Pearson, Oamaru. Private Wm. C. Grant, Middlemarch, Otago. Corporal D. L. Whitehead, Dunedin. Private T. Leo, Woodlands, Southland. Private W. Wheeter, Waikouaiti. Following were severely injured in the accideut : — Private Charles Jones, Dunedin. Private W. Devon, Gimmerburn, Otago. Private N. L. Thomas, Waimate. i Private W. Turner, Outram. Private H. R. Plumridge, Spreydon, Canterbury. The slightly injured are:— Privates j John Edgar, Queenstown ; James C. Watt. [Mochavie, the scene of the railway accident in which the Eighth Contingent lost so many of its number, is 16 miles north-east of Klerksdorp.] John Dyer Cunningham, of the Seventh Contingent, was dangerously ill at Pretoria on the 12th inst.