HOKITIKA.
Last night.
Sad Accident.
A miner named Abbot was brought down yesterday from the Blue Spur, and admitted to the hospital suffering from a broken leir. This is the second accident of a similar nature this-week.
Two boys named Alexander Wilaou aged eight, and Kobart Wilson, sons of a settler of Greek's gully, Arahura, were accidentally killed on Tuesday. They were playing about and got on the top of a bauk or terrace 46 feet high, where there was a house which bed been used for sluicing, they were standing on the house when the ground gave way and btirried them. It was half an hour before they were got out, quite dead, An inquest will be held tomorrow. Two more claims are on gold at Zala's rush near Okarita, and three more leases are applied for. Prospects are favorable. Tho Hokitika lighthouse is now permanently up at night.
The steamer Lytto'lton is expected to get off to-morrow. She has sustained no damage.
The vyeathcr for the last week has been very boisterous and raining.
(Pku Pkess Agency.)
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3357, 25 September 1879, Page 2
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179HOKITIKA. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3357, 25 September 1879, Page 2
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