FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE UPPER BULLER.
A miner named Archibald Dewar, j was killed al the Upper Butler, on the afternoon of Monday, the 15th ultimo. Dewar was working in a claim with a mate named Wilson, in the old workings of the Upper Buller, about a mile below Newton Creek. In the bottom of the paddock were two large boulders, and lying across were two large logs, the ends of which rested on oTJe of tho stones. Dewar was picking out the stores, and in doing so undermined one of them, causing it to turn over, slipping oft' at the same time one of the logs, which caught the tunate man by the head, aud crushed him ajjamst the reef, producing a large wound over the left temple, aua causing almost instant death. Constable O'Gorman reports also that the back part of the neck was very much bruised. Deceased possessed a claim, and water-race, and owned a small garden, under a crop of potatoes. He was about -15 years of age, was a native of Menzies, iu North Perthshire, Scotland, and has, it is slated, a sister and two cousins living in Dunodin, whose address the constable was unable to ascertain.
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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 921, 1 February 1872, Page 2
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202FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE UPPER BULLER. Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 921, 1 February 1872, Page 2
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