. A fatal accident happened some distance beyond Hunterville, on Thursday, when ii member of Mr Ross' road party got one] of. his legs badly broken. It appears that he was Masting papa rock, when the charge exploded sooner than he expected, and carried him over a precipice 50 feet high. When his companions examined him they found that the bone of one of his legs had hern smashed, and wag protruding through the skin. They put him on a stretcher, and started to parry dim to Hnnterville. A . messenger arrived " ifi | 'M'artori.at .12 o'clock, at nijrht; forDr Skerman, and/the .doctor started for'Hiit»te.rYHie.earJy nextmornirijr..The- ! doctor 8 eery|c,ei<, however, were not. ro quired, ;ag. {He patffant, whose natn«« wnn McDoyUt, " died before he reached Hutiteryilie.— Marton paper. Sir E Stricklnnd Writes to the Sydnoy Morning Herald 'suggesting that the colo'uifctf .should At once enter upon airanjje'merits foFcelfhrntin«r th« fiftieth anniversary bf Her 1 Majesty's nccsiti'in to t|e throne, wliicK' will come around m JTune next. It has already been cabftd that the Common Council of London ara .preparing to couimfiuorate tli»i'»year v^!»e rfcturn nf her coronation day with groat fe^tiviti*-*, m which m#ny J^fiingcolDnißta at HoMi have j
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1697, 1 May 1886, Page 4
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