Fatal Accidents.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4911, 21 January 1889, Page 2

Fatal Accidents.

(By Telegraph.) HOKITIKA, Jan. 19. A miner named Frederick Bingham was killed by foul air in a shaft at the Hauhau yesterday afternoon. A neighbour’s cow had fallen down, and ho went to try to get it out, having bis foot in a sling. Before reaching the bottom he fainted and fell. The body was recovered last night. Another man, well secured, on going down found the air so bad that a candle would not burn four feet below the surface. INVERCARGILL, Jan. 20. David McGillivray, aged 12 years, the son of a carpenter living near the jetty, lost his life in the estuary yesterday some miles from town. Deceased went out in a sailing boat with a party of young boys, and was struck on the head and knocked overboard by the boom, the halyards having given way as the ; boat was going about. No clear account of the occurrence can be got from his companions, but from the fact that the boom, a heavy one, broke on his head, it is probable that the boy was stunned and disabled for an attempt to keep afloat. The son of Mr Museen Brown, lands ranger, was thrown into the river at the same time, but swam till picked up. McGillivray had only recently recovered from severe injuries sustained in a fall through a trap-door in the upper floor of a flour-mill. The body has not yet been recovered.