ACCIDENT AT THE UNA MINE.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 587, 27 November 1871, Page 2

ACCIDENT AT THE UNA MINE.

ON Saturday afternoon a youth named Joseph May was seriously injured by t?iu accidental rolling of a log dawn the luce of the Karaka Hill. He was engaged assisting the blacksmith at the Utta.nnne, and at übout half-past three ./clock he wont to the ]\ ro. 2 level, to carry picks to the blacksmith's shop, in order U> have them pointed. While he was stoopm" to raise the picks from the ground, a Unvjjog of timber, eight feet ia length, and about" ten inches in diameter, camo rolling down Lhe (ace of l; >e hill, and t-trucU him apparently in the chest. He was insensible when picked up by a I man named Alfred Bagnall, who was en- ; gagid preparing sets of timber within ■'. few yards of the >pot. Tb« boy's father was working in tb ■ drive aud was at once called, and assist ». o having been procured tbo poor lad was .enaoved to the hospital. Dr. Trousseau v; -.a m attendance and gare very little bone ■ ■>' iiis recovery, pronoucing him then in a (Iviir: slate. Yesterday, although ntill insen- ■;■}•■'.., there appeared signs of improve-Mu-ut, and it, is hoped that notvisitly nidin.r the injuries he received, he will nlli'.niitdy recover. Bcsidi i the injuries alluded to, there is :i severe wound oc the head, which appears io hart- been caused by his backward fall when struck by the log. The log appears to have rolled from a place where mining timbers are stacked, but how it CHine loosened or set in motion is not known, as no person was near at the time.--2 ltamcs ■Advertiser.