BRUNNERTON.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5297, 18 September 1885, Page 2

BRUNNERTON.

[PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.] Brunnerton, September 17. A very nasty accident happened yesterday afternoon to Mr Robert Lynch, and he was brought down to the Hospital foday. The accident occurredin this way. Mr Lynch, who has a contract for timber for the Harbor Board, was engaged in loading timber on one of the railway trucks, when by some means he fell backwards, his loins striking on the butt end of an old pile. As Mr Lynch is well up in years, weighs about 14 stone, and as he fell from the top of a loaded truck, the wonder is that he did not receive a great deal more serious injuries than he appears to have done, though he is undoubtedly badly shaken up. Dr MacCarthy, who happened to be close by at the time, rendered all the assistance he could in the circumstances. He says that no ribs are broken, though badly bruised, while he thinks the kidneys have sustained some injury. Lynch managed to walk a little after being picked up, but he soon began to feel stiff and sore and helpless. He was consequently taken to the Hospital as the best place for one in his position. Mr Pearn's new house at Taylorville will soon be opened. He will apply for a license at the licensing meeting to-night, and of course it will be granted. It is the largest hotel in the whole district, and is furnished in first-el ss style. It would be a credit, to Grey mouth or any other town, as its accommodation is not to be surpassed. It is not yet named, but there is very little doubt will be called "The Buck's Head," that being the name of Mr Pearn's Hotel at Kumara. If the place goes ahead, as there is very little doubt it will, Mr Pearn will have no occasion to regret his enterprise in putting up a good house in Taylorville. It is decidedly the best and most central stand in the place, which, combined with the superiority of the hotel and its general appointments, together with the landlord's well-known popularity, it will be very odd to me if he does not " scoop the pool." Another hotel is being run up at Dobson Town very rapidly. It will be a goodsized building, quite equal to the requirements of the place. Mr M. Smith is the proprietor. For the last fortnight Mr Lord, surveyor, has been engaged surveying underground at the Coal Pit Heath mine, and a very dismal, disagreeable job it must have been, as everyone knows who has had to move about in subterranean galleries. He is now, however, once more" in the sunlight, or so much of it as is vouchsafed us inthis shadowy and soot-begrimed place. His surveying is in connection with the boundarylirie and preparing a plan of the workings, at least as I am informed.

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