KUMARA.
Monday.
Fatal Mine Accident.
I A miner named David Ellis descended an old shaft for the purpose of breaking jthrough into his own claim. He was shortly alter heiard moaning, and his mates at once went down the shaft and found Ellis insensible from foul air. In sending him up with a rope EUis fell out of the loop, and when taken up life was extinct. An inquest was held to-day, when the evidence showed that Ellis must have been dead before he was placed on |the rope. There was a large funeral, the ijGood Templars attending in full regalia. |The deceased was a native of Glasgow.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3139, 11 March 1879, Page 2
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