BREACH OF THE MINES ACT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 14 September 1880, Page 2

BREACH OF THE MINES ACT.

(by telegraph.) Westport, SeDtembor ISAt the R.M. Court to-day, Mr. Rnnff, the Inspector, prosecuted Mr. FlwgwsW'j manager of the Wellington Colliery, ana j Mr. Young, contractor, for , oU coal; the first for not p»ovidSng sufficien ventilation in the mine, audi the, other r not, appointing competent persons to e amine the mine with safety lamps e»c morning. A similar charge to that ftg®*" Young waa also brought, against "" guson. v- The, prosecutions were.toe reau«

-—"" "TV ; tire-damp in the "Wel0f aa «P|° four men- William, m t0 * °' nd Robert Young (father and D» niel ' ; and Callingham, their brothcr- "? Tier* burnt to such an extent as to ' Mem UP for ei 2 ht da * 3 * Th ® Iff t& tv en before the conrt, as reported aC f Westport Times, shows that the '*■ r Jon was caused by the fall of some T tons of coal, liberating gas, and the twenty w bein"- sufficiently strone to *«" it S by nik«l lishta i The 8311,6 fhr the prosecution, including the neS A man aver that the mine is not '"ffewrwM properly ventilated, whilst *"fmesaes for the other side say that fhß m aK aurticient, and never was theV ° a S at the time of the accident, V?"!! c «l not rreventible. Fcrgusson pleaded ftfhe was in chaise of loung, rffhat he was responsible. Young rlTrmltv to the charge against him. ? Ic fd g an important case, Mr. Revell | C .. S ll fudgment until the 21st inst.