THAMES NEWS.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT,
(Per Press Association.)
,THAMES, last night. A serious accident ‘ooourrod at IChelmsfor'd mine at Tair.ua,, on the East Coast Peninsula. John Piggot was working in a slope, and a large quantity of quartz and earth feU a completely burying him. He was ..extracted with considerable ‘difficulty. He was found to ho seriously injured. Twenty mates carried him over tho ranges to the Thames. His head and shoulders Were badly crushed, and his condition is serious, hut ho is expected to retcover.
CARNEGIE’S GIFTS,
.The Borough 'Council has received .the first grant of five hundred pounds from Mr Carnegie for the erection of ifche public library, which is almost Completed, SCHOOL OF, MINES,:
(Mr Vivian Morgan, assistant at the Thames School of Mines, has been appointed to succeed his brother as director of the Waini School, Mr P« Morgan having been appointed to the Government Geological stafSj
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1456, 17 May 1905, Page 2
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150THAMES NEWS. Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1456, 17 May 1905, Page 2
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