Nevis
(From our own Correspondent,) The conclusion of the old year and the advent of the new one were marked by a series of painful occurrences in this district. First as the old year was closing one of our hardy miners, a man in the prime of life and health, was cut down in a moment of time, caught in a fall of earth, literally trapped by one of those unforseen and unexpected collapses which sometimes occur. The face showed no sign of crack or rift, but the fault was there, and the fall carried death in its passage. The deceased, Robert Williamson, was a single man, without a relative in the colony and had been working for years at the Upper Nevis, close to the saddle.
The second accident (occurred) on the Ngapara dredge to the manager, Mr C Fleming, and resulted in the crushing of three fingers of the left hand. Dr Morris was in attendance as soon as possible and dressed the wounded hand, and on the following day took the sufferer to Cromwell.
A few days later Mr Sutherland’s house, together with the furniture clothing, &c, was totally destroyed by fire. The fire took place at night during the absence of Mr Sutherland, who is engaged on the Ngapara No 3.
There was no insurance on the building or furniture and much commiseration is felt for the unfortunate family who are vitually left without a stitch of clothing. I am glad to say our sympathy has taken a practical direction and has resulted in quite a substantial sum being raised to enable the sufferers to rebuild a home.
All the Christmas and New Year fun and frolic is now once again laid by for another spell of hard graft, and work is once more the order of the day. -Dunstan Times, 26/1/1904.
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