SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN A SUGAR REFINERY.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 89, 14 January 1888, Page 3

SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN A SUGAR REFINERY.

FALLEN FROM.HIS HIGH ;ESTATE.: y^'-d.^d-HORRIBLE SUICIDE OF A ■RRA-\i7RRIsm^RAR'7A.R^ a MU_iDEROITj_o ASSAULT 1 W: !a '„v o.*r'- tomAMA^:, "; v;;,i' DISTRESSING FATALITY TO |A YOUNG AXEMAN; : ; (Post Corrbspoiident;)", j; | -.. . [PBB: S.S, MABABOA AT THB BLUBP,^ •-,, MBiaotnaNE, January 3. v A sad accident happen*id" at the Yarraville Sugar Riefinery v oil the Y$ Ist December. A. lad' named; Benry W"hite, aged 13^. an employe f at; the works, laid down on, the floor of» the fifth story, -and incautiously »put dhis head over the lift urea to: communicate with: the^forettiatt. ■ At- the saihe; moment the lift 1 descended noiselessly firbm above' and; seVered his 'head cbmr f pbtel^l|ro,m >tbe'boo^,^ nV^^ r * wards tumbled dowirthe pit. , Ati the inquest it transpired, that the lift weighed 30 cwt,'.but-there was a prjo-; per guard to within a foot or so of the flooring^ The boy had only been cm T ployed at the, refinery for fourydays, hisdu^lieih^ to'atte'nd Hto^^dthe. Hqubr and report when it became .dirty T^ie j ui^ returned, a yerdic^^f. ,'Accijientjal Death, adding a!''rider* ihattthe;idpC^sed should mot have-, been employed iat theiworks, he>. being under the age proved by the Factories Act.; A ■<! j .. Julius' Clare, <>f Croydon?.a min«|r, 52 s'years' of -a^ge, H plafced" avjiice of dynamite)in Ms 0 mduth,' :il_hd, % fhse which he set. on ,^re,;..^q^pleiVj „__s head .cjtea^.i'.o^.jliisl-)peeK- 'HiSj.cliest was split, right j down, f; and. ,tno. sides and end of dth© tent were bespattered - with blood,hair,' >brauu,i(.andn bits- of the: sfcullv" Glare'had''been drinking but a, few.minutes before;-andocon-versed with" fa iiiiier' nstinki' Grieve^ who livbd withitf' a "few l: 'feet!.: of Jhim. Grieves tentwas also bespattered with blood and brains. The deceased; steted dthat .he had beenyfebb^d of £160 during i the I holidaya.j His state-; is generally disbelieved. ■; M ,'-i I/. I« I «BBi_BA»B;JandaryvS.; The arrest of; JShn'.'Wallis Rutter, Mayor of Rockhampton, for forgery, created great surprise and excitement as the accused was; greatly esteemed, and was to/have been thevLiberalcandidate at the next general election. He was arrested at his iprivated residence, and practically- admitted his guilt. The forgeries are believed to amount,*to £13,000.; 1 Rutter had speculated largely in land and mining, and recently interviewed Hanlan in Sydney in regard to, a. rowing: match with Trickett. Stdnbt, January 3. . A Chinaman / ran amuck . on t 2nd January -in . Gilham's eatinghouse,; - Pitt-street, Sydney, whererhehad gone, for breakfast. Thepproprietorr r finding that he had ho money;; to pay for; his breakfast, sec him to work it out. by peeling potatoes! • The Celestial, however, did not approves; off this method.of settling the.reckoning, and as soon as he got a knife he went for the cook, staobing -himmn'-'thenh'ead. and arm. Another, man, who.came;to the. rescue, was,also stabbed,, -and the proprietor fared even worse, receiving several severe cuts. Finally, the irate Celestial was. secured by a policeman and taken to the lock-up. The' wounds pfrjthedcppfc and t_e.;qther; employe: were^ somewha^ serious., , A peculiar and. distressing fatality occurred at Red Bank, hear Singleton last we6k.^ A boy named M'Knight was engaged in cutting off the limbs of ;a tree which stood on the bank of the river. iHewaa using ysn axe for, the purpose. Missing a blow he slipped off the (hmb he was sitting on and ■ and fell on tb the bank Tof the river. The axe Struck the unfortunate youth* on the neck, inflicting a, terrible gash. Tfie" boy thep; rolled' inti| thef #atjer and was drowned!' When^'the $ody was recovered it_lwas found that his injur^es^wfsre. such that, if Jbo had been rescued from the wa-ter he could not have lived. —