A rather extraordinary accident occurred to a young fellow in the railway employ at Fort Adelaide. It appears he got bo me foreign substance down his throat (a piece of chaff from wheat; I think), which bo much annoyed him that he borrowed ii ehawl pin, 6 inches long, from his wife, and poked the knob-end down after the substance in hopes of getting rid of it; but instead of doing so he by some means jost his bold of (he 'pin and Bwoll'6'werl itdown, down, down it went, and finally settled no one knew where. He was taken 10 the Adelaide Hospital. Nine doctors assisted to cut open his Bide, and they endeavoured in vain to find the 6pin. lie is now at home, and although he con do no woik, suffers but little, his principal anxiety being as to what part of tie body the pia "will show up Ja,
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7296, 12 February 1887, Page 3
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