A painful accident befell John MacNamara, manager of Hyde and Co.'s dredge at Clyde, at 11 o'clock on Saturday morning. Through the handle of a hand-winch suddenly revolving and striking him on the top of the head, his skull was fractured. He was removed to the Dunstan Hospital, where Dr Hyde removed a portion of the skull. -Otago Daily Times, 2/10/1893.
Dredging on the Molyneux River is evidently continuing a payable venture, judging by the reported returns from the various dredges at work. Between Clyde and Alexandra there are no less than five dredges at work, and all of these are apparently on payable gold, the returns from Mr Gard's two dredges being of an exceptionally satisfactory amount at each week's wash-up. About a fortnight ago a sad and fatal accident occurred on board the Clyde dredge, when John MacNamara, a miner and shareholder in the dredge, sustained a fracture of the skull, from which he died in the hospital on Friday evening last, consciousness never once having returned to him since the moment of the accident until his release from suffering. It would seem that the unfortunate man had occasion to attend to the winch, and in performing the necessary work the machinery must have got beyond his control, when the handle of the winch, flying round, struck the poor fellow on the head, resulting in the injuries just described. The funeral, which took place on Saturday, was numerously attended by the people of this and other districts, where MacNamara had made many friends for himself through his genial and inoffensive demeanour towards young and old who knew him. -Otago Witness, 12/10/1893.
Clyde Cemetery.
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