ADDISON'S FLAT.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 282, 26 June 1868, Page 2

ADDISON'S FLAT.

(from our own correspondent.) A sad accident occurred yesterday morning to a miner on Addison's named O'Brien. In attempting to go down a shaft, he carelessly put his foot into a bag which he thought was swung on to the end of the rope attached to the windlass, which not being so. gave way. and he was precipitated to the bottom, a depth of forty feet. Fortunately there was about four feet of water in the shaft, and a bucket lying on its sile, the two iron bands of which he burst in his fall. If his descent had not been thus checked he would inevitably have been killed. No bones have been broken, as far as can be ascertained as yet, but Ins present condition is very precarious indeed. Mining affairs are looking very prosperous. Sherlock and party bottomed on the Shamrock Lead last week, and divided £2O per man for their share. Four Extended claims have been applied for, and been granted on the Shamrock lead during the past three weeks, and another was surveyed yesterday by Mr Coe, mining surveyor. All the claims working are now nearly on the bottom and have in every case struck good payable washdirt, except in Vizard and party, who took up their claims too near the range, but are so confident of success in obtaining good gold on the Shamrock lead, that they have applied for new ground further, and have already commenced operations.