Fatal Buggy Accident.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2070, 22 January 1898, Page 2

Fatal Buggy Accident.

It is our painful duty to record the death of Mr E M Corbett on Thursday eveniug. He was in Paeroa on business, and previous to leaving for Waitekauri he had a conversation with Mr Gallagher and Mr Nicholls, daring which he declined an offer from Mr Montgomery, of Owharoa, to take a seat in the latter’s buggy on the plea that he had his own to take over Later Mr Corbett’s body was found in the first turning of the Karangahake Gorge. It is supposed that he had been thrown from his trap, death being instantaneous; but we have no particulars of the sad event at hand. Mr Corbett has been connected with Waitekauri a number of years, and was associated with Mr John Brown and Mr Blizzard in the erection of the Waitekauri battery and tramway. Subsequently he was engaged as manager, and while holding that office took up a large area of land and made his home there. Mr Corbett had a Waitekauri mine on tribute for a long time, only giving it up five or six years ago. Later he was connected with a number of prominent claims in the district in which he was interested up to the date of his death. Mr Corbett was a leading man in the mining world. He leaves a family and a number of friends not only in Upper Thames bat in Auckland, where he was highly respected. For a number of years Mr Corbett suffered greatly from rheumatism and lumbago. He was one of the original members of the Ohinemnri County Council.

The funeral will leave his late re eidence®to morrow at |2 pm, for the Waibi cemetery. An inquest was to have been held yesterday afternoon.