FATA L ACCIDENT AT WAIROA GORG .
News was brought into Spring Q:-,.ve af> on FYhvuary 25th that Mr 11 ht .McOotnb3> had been killed v.-hi!o wovl-.i >a at hia coijt-aei on i ho ii (-w rrnd 1.-iyonci Irvin n '3, iea H'U 5 : V' ths FcrLs. A i; iho «et>ii; of >Le :»eci'l-nt a r->al had \i-nn m-ul*. roun ; <\ ••■ ek-- '< -l alt, but Ow-irig to a sim having tve-u re.l it the w.-~ .■,e.-i^-,i), it haJ bam dfenied advi.-ab!ot-.» iowc •hs !■ vc.l of tbe ro-idway some ten or tsel^ feff, anl i L , was nj;on this wo k than ihe decensed was engage! at the fmo of tL accident. Somo oi ths raon empl'iyed w .•;•:■ moving piacrs of rock from sbove '.vih or i. - birs, and it ia supposel that, the unf.^-tni a'e mt»ri. whilst endeavoring to io^ove a b ! rx;k o the ';J^e of the track, over-balanced hin.a "•! ia stqo way ani fell over, s'riki:ig a jattin r lefU.c of rock Borne fif:eea or cwe-.ty le.i bi-lo'v?, ths boiiy rol ; iag d -wr,wA y d till EtoprrfTi by some tutu bushes neur the edge f liit river. The bo ?y will b"! brought down ihif morning, and an h;qnesthe)d. The ch.cearei leaves a famiy of two n r -m (who wsre working with him) and two clanghter \ for vvlinm the deepest sympathy is M". in their Midcist; berc!ivr?n'.en*.— Own Corrcsp 'nrien 1 ;.
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Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 6067, 23 March 1891, Page 5
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233FATAL ACCIDENT AT WAIROA GORG. Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 6067, 23 March 1891, Page 5
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