On the 9th hist-., George Elliott and I Thomas Auckram, employed at Price's sawmill at Akatarawn, in the Hutt dis trict, were trucking big logs to the mill, when an accident occurred, which has resulted in the loss of a life. The men had charge of a truck each. On enter ing a cutting with n steep incline about two and a-half miles distant from the mill, Elliott put his foot on the brake of his truck to regulate the speed, and then jumped off. He was struck in the stomach through a log in the truck coming off behind, and was jammed against the bank. Assist ance was got, and lie was taken first to the Lower Hutt and afterwards to the Wellington Hospital, where he died on Saturday. He left n sworn deposition describing the accident, and stating that lie ought to have jumped off the truck before it entered the cutting. Elliott's parents reside at lliiuriccvillc North, He was twenty-two years of age,

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