ACCIDENT AT WAIHI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13650, 18 January 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENT AT WAIHI.

MINER BADLY INJURED.

[BY telegraph.—own CORRESPONDENT.]

Waitii, Friday. Last night, at the Grand Junction mine, a young man named Leonard Edwards slipped into a pass and fell a distance of 20ft, sustaining concussion of the brain, and external lacerations to the head and back. Exactly how the accident occurred is not known, but it is presumed that some quartz on which Edwards was standing moved, causing him to lose his foothold and. fall back into the pass.

The injured man was conveyed to the Wailii Hospital, and although he regained consciousness for a brief period after admission he again lapsed into unconsciousness, and his condition remained unchanged throughout to-day.

VANCOUVER MAIL SERVICE.

CABLE FROM SIR WILFRID LAURIER

[BY TELEGBAIH. —PR JSS ASSOCIATION-.] Wellington, Friday. Thk reply received by the Prime Minister from Sir "Wilfrid Lauricr, Prime Minister of Canada', shows that the cablegram relating to the alleged failure of the- New Zealand Government to answer certain correspondence relating to the Vancouver mail contract had 110 foundation in fact. Sir Wilfrid Laurier cabled as follows: — "The statement was incorrect. All I said was that the contract for the. renewal of the Cicada-New Zealand-Australia service had been prepared and signed here by the Minister for Trade and Commerce, and sent to the contractor for signature, but it ha/3 not yet been returned."