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Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1079, 22 December 1903, Page 3

A lad named Ernest Williams, employed by the Lacklan Gold Mining Company, New South Wales, whilst carrying a vessel containing sulphuric acid up a ladder in connection with the cyanide works, missed his step and upset the acid over his face and body. In agony he jumped into a vat of water below. Whon rescued he was found to have boen terribly injured, and was expoctod to lose his eyesight. A peculiar accident recently occurred to a young man named Kenneth Mclntyre at Oura, New South Wales. Ho was assisting at hay-stacking, when he slipped and fell on the hayfork tines, one of which penetrated the chest, and glancing along the bone issued at the other side. No vital part was injured, though the heart was narrowly missed,

A witness at the Christchurch Police Court, prior to giving evidence, handed in a note from a medical man stating that he suffered from incurable cancer of tho mouth and tongue, and was unable to spcak distinctly. The Bible on which the man took tho oath was carefully put aside bo that other witnesses might not have to use it, and was burned after the rising of tho Court.