A Miner's Mishap.— The Grey Bw«r Argus of Monday u&jb -.—James Maher, one of the men in the Roaring Meg Water-race Company, met with an accident on Friday evening while falling a tree. The tree fell on his chest and ankle. The injured man was Brought to town by the Brunner train on Saturday evening and taken to the Grey Biver Hospital, wherehe was attended to by Dr Morice. It took forty-six men from eight o'clock in the morning till four o'clock in the afternoon to take him from the scene of the accident to the Grey river (a distance of seven miles). The track is gimply abominable, and tha proposed, jtoafc-*
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6648, 12 September 1889, Page 4
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112Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Star (Christchurch), Issue 6648, 12 September 1889, Page 4
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