OWHAROA. [From our own Correspondent.] Tuesday.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 346, 27 February 1889, Page 2

OWHAROA. [From our own Correspondent.] Tuesday.

Mr Sam Farmer met with a rather serious accident last week. Whilst chopping firewood a piece flew up and struck him on the eye causing great pain, Pie went to the Thames and had it examined by Dr Williams, who turned the eye out on his cheek, and cleansed away the bruised blood at the back of the eyeball, etc The doctor thinks that the sight is not permanently injured, but it will be some weeks before he can dispense with the bandages. Quickly following on this accident, a younger brother, Mr Walter Farmer, whilst working in the Smile of Fortune tribute, nearly lost his life, through a fall of earth from the old stopes, which several men were engaged in timbering. The results, however, I am pleased to be able to report are not likely to be so serious as at first feared. On enquiry to-day, I learn that Mr Walter Farmer is getting on as well as could be expected, after having been dug out from underneath a mass of two tons of earth. Mining matters are not very flourishing m this locality, there being little or nothing doing in any of the mines, with the exception of the Smile of Fortune. Waitekauri : Mr E. K. Cooper is pushing on the carting of his plant, having four or five teams constantly on the road. I hear that there is a likelihood of another battery being erected by a Sydney syndicate, who have already applied for a special claim of sixty acres.