MORE LANDSLIPS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6313, 10 August 1888, Page 4

MORE LANDSLIPS.

I The Southern Railway. I t^s Press Association.] DtJNEDIN, At/gust 9. j The northern express train is not through to Dunedin yet, and 33 scarcely likaly to come to-night. Another slip or I slips has occurred, but particulars are not I aseerkainable yet. The slip at Purakanui to-night occurred about 7.30, and was noticed by the watchman, who went North and stopped the train, which returned to Waitati. The slip was cleared away, when ife wsa decided to bring on the ' train, and it reached town about eleven o'clock. \- Nob much rain fell to-day, but there was fog and drizzle. The slips are put down to the warm rain acting on the frozen ground. The cliffs face South-east, and during the winter the sun' scarcely shines I on the place at all, so that the action of I frost would continue nearly the whole I day. THE ACCIDENT AT PUItAKANTJI CLIFFS. Tho Dunedin Herald reports some curious details in connection with the accident to the surfaceman Williamson, who died in the Hospital: — "A gang of workmen heard a slip fall, and one of them went to see the extent of it. Oa his way ! he met Williamson walking slowly along with hi 3 lamp in his hand. He spoke, but j Williamson did not answer, and it was i then found that he had been hurt. Help soon came, and tho injured man was taken ■ I to the watchman's house, where it was sscn he had suffered a terrible wound on the head, extending from the forehead to the back of the head, and probably caused !by a falling stone, which, completely 1 smashed the skull on one side. When ! walking along tho line, and when accosted by the other man, Williamson was quite unconscious, and it was -n-ifch. the greatest difficulty that the lamp w&3 taken from his hand." At the inquest on the body of Gideon Williamson, who wa3 killed at the Purafcanui Cliffs by a fall of stone, a verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attachablo to sny person.