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»■ SAD INCIDENT OF A VOYAGE A MUBDEBBR^EXEOUTED. LONITBD PBBBS ABfIOOUTIOH.] Melbourne, July 1. The young man Buck, who murdered the woman Norton because she refused to return and live with him^ was executed to-day. Death was instantanecus. Sydney, July 1. The ship Argus, from London, reports that during a heavy gale on May 17 Kelly, the third officer, was washed overboard. The ohief officer, who was a cousin of Kelly, with McFinlay, McDonald and Robertson, seamen, and Lindsay, steward, gallantly volunteered, and launched a boat to rescue Kelly. They managed to pick up the officer, and had almost reached the ship on the return, whon a trsm^naous sea swamped ibo boat and all the crew were orowned. The Marin« Board has suspended the certificate of Captain Henderson of the stroamor £»duey, for six months.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 161, 2 July 1895, Page 2
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135INTERCOLONIAL. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 161, 2 July 1895, Page 2
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