DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 32, 20 January 1912, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

BLASTING FATALITY. {Per Press Association.)

Dunedin, January T 9. , Thojj.gKeijlyj. employed on the conruction woVks at Rig - Hill on the iawrenco-Roxlmrgh railway, mot with 1 n accident last evening which termined fatally. Ho was tamping a lasting charge, which exploded prelaturely, and the rammer was driven to his forehead. GEYSERS ACTIVE. Rotorua, January 20.

he geysers at Whakarewarewa have een very active of late, Pohutu criming at frequent intervals though the ’.ration of the displays is not •ngthy. The smaller geysers are Iso active, Waikorohihi playing for ine, seven, eleven, six, four and a alf, and four hours in respective days uring the week. The height varied om twenty to fifty feet.

MAY QUEEN FATALITY. Thames, January 20. At the inquiry into the May Queen lining fatality a verdict was rcturn--1 that no blame was attachable to ayone and that the part played by rowley and James was deserving of igh recognition by the Royal Huuine Society. The jury also roturnd a rider that stopping and restoring the Roots blower used to ventilJe the deep) levels should be notified o all mines. In connection therewith teps are being taken to secure for ’rowley the King Edward Modal. 'a miner buried. Hokitika, January 20. John Spencer, an old and respected liner, was buried in his claim at 'ox’s by a fall of earth yesterday, ’he body was recovered by a rescue oarty at five o’clock this morning. CILLED BY A FALL OF EARTH. Whangaroi, January 20. The police have received informaion that S. Box was killed by a fall f earth in a cutting on the Kaikoho ailway construction works. It is .opposed that he has relatives in Vincent Street, Auckland.