ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
THIRTY QUARRYMEN KILLED
Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright NEW YORK, May 13.
A premature explosion of dynamite at South Bethlehem, New York, killed 30 quarrymen. A BLASTING DISASTER. A JOCKEY KILLED. BRISBANE, May T4. Two miners named Shearer and-Kerr were killed in a blasting accident at Mount Cuthbert mine. Three horses fell at the Taroom races, and a jockey named Webster was killed, while two other riders were Eeverely injured. ' Per Press Association. "WHANGAREI, May 14. Constable Douglas, of Hikurangi, had to perform a very gruesome task yesterday. The body of a Maori man -who had been dead for some time, was found in a whare in the heart of the Puhipuhu bush. As the other Maoris refused to have anything to do with' the body, the constable had to carry it on his saddle over four miles. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict that deceased died from want of nourishment. WELLINGTON,, May 14. Word from Wairoa states that Robert Mclntyre, shepherd on the Ormonds station, left to go to Waikokopu, and that bis riderless horse has been found. It is feared that -he is drowned.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13904, 15 May 1909, Page 6
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