ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
A miner named James McFarlane was accidentally killed by a fall of earth at Blue Spur yesterday afternoon. -Evening Star, 6/10/1896.
FUNERAL NOTICE.
THE Friends of the late James McFarlane are respectfully invited to attend his Funeral, which will leave the Dunedin Railway Station, for the Northern Cemetery, TO-MORROW (Wednesday), 7th inst., on the arrival of the 10.50 a.m. train from Lawrence.
A. J. WYNN AND HOPE, Undertakers, St. Andrew street. -Evening Star, 6/10/1896.
A SAD accident occurred at the Blue Spur on Monday afternoon, when by Mr James McFarlane, a well known miner, met his death. He was at work in the Fidelity Co.'s claim, in which he held an interest, when a piece of cement fell from the top of the face and struck him on the body, knocking him over and breaking several of his ribs. The immediate cause of death was attributed by Dr Nicoll to internal hemorrhage, resulting from the broken ribs. An inquest was held on the body before Mr Jas. Campbell, J.P., when a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony was returned. — (Correspondent.) -Mt Benger Mail, 9/10/1896.
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