SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO MR. MILLETT, GOVERNMENT ENGINEER.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 20, 30 October 1871, Page 3

SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO MR. MILLETT, GOVERNMENT ENGINEER.

We regret to hear that a very serious accident occurred to Mr. Millett, the Government Engineer, on Saturday afternoon. JVlr. Millett, accompanied by Mr. Sheehan, the Goldsfields Secretary, and Mr. Warden Frazer, proceeded on horseback to the site of the proposed waterworks. On returning by the tramway, Mr. Millett’s horse shied on meeting a truck coming towards them, and rushed up the side of the embankment, throwing Mr. Millett ofE his seat, and dragging him for lomo distance in the stirrup, and kicking him. Mr. Millett, however, ■was soon extricated from his dangerous position, remounted, and rode on for some time, so that it was not at first thought that he had sustained any material injury. Subsequently he felt that he had been much more hurt than was expected. On reaching home, Dr. Trousseau was at once sent for, and we hear that Mr. Millett is progressing favourably, but that he is somewhat seriously hurt, and will be confined to his house, in all probability, for some weeks. Bad as the accident is, it is providential that it was no worse, as from what we have learned from a gentleman who tvas present at the time, Mr. Millett has had a narrow escape of his life. Two other accidents also occurred the same day, but neither of them of a very serious nature. One of the-workmen at the Albion mine, whilst at work on some timber, cut bis foot with an adze ; and at the Golden Crown battery, a man endeavouring to pass between a cart and a gate-post at the corner of the yard, was jammed between them, but as we have said, in neither of these cases was any material injury sustained.