ON Monday morning last an accident occurred at a small shaft on Lord Forester’s estate, near Willey Park, by which a man named Lawrence Lloyd was killed, and another named John Hill, severely injured.

The shaft is one of a number sunk to reach some inferior coal that lies near the surface, and it is customary when the pit is about to be abandoned and filled up, to abstract the trees or timber from the workings. The men were so employed when the accident occurred, a quantity of earth falling upon them.