HOLIDAY FATALITIES.
A LON"(i LIST. (/•Vr 1 ''?*■* —' ■■/•fi i-if't.) Svt>nky. Dec. 20The holiday season was productive of an unusually heavy list of fatalities. A platelayer was cut to pieces by a train in Sydney. A miner was thrown from his horse and killed at Adclong. Two boys were drowned at W agga, another at Newcastle, and a fourth at Carr&thool while bathing. " A seaman celebrating Christmas too freely was drowned rn Sydney harbor. The hotly of a man was found in the river Tamut in Victoria. Xfe§ —list includes eight cases of downing in different parts of the colony. A miner was killed at the lSurrninbeet races through a pony colliding with another horse. At Adelaide it is reported a boy was drowned in the Torrens River. At Brisbane there were two drownings, and one suicide helped to swell the list. An inmate of the Ruckwood Asylum, Sydney, destroyed himself by opening veins in his arms. In Victoria the wife of a miner threw herself into the sea at Anderson's Inlet, and a publican in West Melbourne hanged himself.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 208, 30 December 1896, Page 3
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