MORE LANDSLIPS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXX, Issue 8557, 10 August 1888, Page 5

MORE LANDSLIPS.

* THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, August 9. The northern, express train is not through to Dunedin yet, and is scarcely likely to come to-night. Another slip or slips has occurred, but particulars ara not ascertainable yet. Tho slip at Purakanui to-night occurred about 7.30, and was noticed by the watchman, who went North and stopped tho train, which returned to Waitati. Tho slip was cleared away, when it was decided to bring on the train, and it reached town about eleven o’clock. Not much rain fell to-day, but there was fog and drizzle. The slips are put down to the warm rain acting on the frozen ground. The cliffs face South-east, and during the winter the sun scarcely shines on the place at all, so that the action of frost would continue nearly the whole day. THE ACCIDENT AT PURAKANUI CLIPES. The Dunedin Herald reports some curious details in connection with the accident to the surfaceman Williamson, who died in the Hospital A gang of workmen heard a slip fall, and one of them went to see the extent of it. On his way ho met Williamson walking slowly along with his lamp in his hand. He spoke, but Williamson did not answer, and it was then found that he had been hurt.. Help soon came, and fcbe injured man was taken to the watchman’s house, where it was seen he had suffered a terrible wound on the head, extending from the forehead to the back of the head, and probably caused by a falling atone, which completely smashed the skull on one side. When walking along the line, and when accosted by the other man, Williamson was. quite unconscious, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the lamp was taken from his hand.” At the inquest on the body of Gideon Williamson, who was killed at the Purakanui Cliffs by a fall of stone, a verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attachable to any person.