SERIOUS ACCIDENT
(By Telegraph—Press Association,)AUCKLAND., Last Night. J William Sturt, a miner employed at Huntly, met,with a • serious aoddent yesterday afternoon, while (blasting logs in a drain near his h-me, through a charge of gelignite «:oiiig off before he was able to get clear. His right hand was badly shatc?red, and bpth his eyes so badly ii-jur-, ed that, it is tfeared he* 1 will lose the sight of. one, if not both. He wns removed to the Waikato Hospital, where, four fingers have been amputated.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10549, 3 February 1912, Page 5
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86SERIOUS ACCIDENT Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10549, 3 February 1912, Page 5
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