Obituaries Australia

At Native Dog Gold Mine, near Oberon, on Thursday, a serious mining accident occurred, resulting in one man being killed and another injured. The two men, Richard Paton and Thomas Collingwood, were removing some washdirt in a race, the sides of which were about 14 feet high, when the banks fell in. Paton was completely covered, but Collingwood was able to remove a portion of the earth from overhead, and call for assistance. A couple of miners at once commenced to shift the earth away, but when Paton was extricated life was extinct. Collingwood sustained a dislocated shoulder and was brought into the Bathurst Hospital yesterday for treatment.