Having been duly sworn states about half past 5 o’clock on Friday morning the 13th [?], I went into the Mine situated on NewCastle Island. I think I was the first man in the Mine that morning. To the best of my belief about two months ago there was an explosion when a man was slightly burned, and there fpre in going into the Mine yesterday morning, I was using precaution by holding my lamp low down with the ground, to prevent accident. IN reaching the place where I had been working on Monday the 11th [?], I filled a box with about 500 lbs of coal putting my tools on the top of it, [Hand?] it before me with the aid of a chinaman to the Main Road. I then left the Mine & was about 200 yards from the [?] in which I [?[ when I heard an explosion & my light went out. I came up to the Pithead & waited until some men fetched up. Andrew Miller, and a man came out