ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81910, 22 December 1906, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

"Per l'ress Association. DItOWNED IX A WELL. Auckland, December 21. A telegram received to-day show.-i that the infant child of Jlr Stanley Brown, of Mangaiti, near Te Aroha. was drowned in a well yesterday. KlLLliii) BY FALL OF EARTH. Duncdin, December 21. A young 1111111 named James Fcrgt; son was killed at Clarendon this af icrnoon by a fall of earth. A FATAL ASSAULT. Masterton, December 21. Charles .Mabey, (S3 years, who is ai leged to have been assaulted by e Maori named Bopoama last Saturday died this evening. The doctor say; the death of Mabey was due to lace ration of the brain and inllanmuttio, of the lungs. DIIOWXED IN A TUB.

Christchurch, December 21. A child named liitn Black, aged It: mouths, full into a tub of water tin':, ai'ternuon and was drowned. NELSON COPPER FIELDS. ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT OPEItATIONS. Per Press Association. Nelson, December 21. The Maoriland Copper Company which took over the Mineral Bel. Company's mines, have.'for the jus! live mouths been opening out the ole levels. In the chute the work is now completed, and the levels are clee, from No. 2 to No. 7, a depth of -lOUfi. Mr Bray, the mine manager, reportthe chute of ore in No. 2 is Sift long This lias been followed down to .\o ■*>. hi the western drive of No. 5 tin lode is 2ft tiin, and the manager re ports that this is the best ore he lie.;seen yet. The lode is running strong under foot, and a contract has bee: let for the extension of No. 7 level tor a further 30Uft, to come under tin main ore body. The assays taker from all over the said leveis, as as saved by .Mr A. Stuart Peters, 1,1,< company's assayer, and .Mr A. A. Bic kerton, the Colonial Analyst, show ar average of thirty-two assays taken ol ll 1 /:, per cent of copper. Shortly :if ter the New Year, the company wil start operations in the Cha'inpior mine, from which have been taker some of the richest known deposits ol dive copper, samples of which arc ex li-.bit.nl at the Nelson court of th( International Exhibition. Seventy live men will be at work during January. it is the intention of the company to immediately ship five hundred tons of ore to the English and Australian Copper Smelting Company al Will-Utah, New South Wales.