LIST OF FATALITIES.
Ssdnet, December 29.
The holiday season was productive of the usual list of fatalities. A platelayer was cut to pieces by a train in Sydney ; a miner was thrown from a horse and killed at Adelong ; two boys were drowned at Wagga, another at Newcastle, and a fouith at Carathool, while bathing; a seaman celebrating Christmas too freely, was drowned in Sydney harbor ; the body of a man was found in the river Tumut in Victoria. The list included eight cases of drowning in different parts of the Colony. A miner was killed at Burrumbeet races through a pony colliding with another horse; at Adelaide it was reported that a boy was drowned in the Torres river; at Brisbane two drovmings and one suicide helped to swell the list ; an imate of Bockwood asylum, Sydney, destroyed himself by opening the veins in his arm; in Victoria the wife a miner threw herself into the sea at Anderson's inlet ; and a publican in West Melbourne hanged himself.
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Colonist, Volume XL, Issue 8751, 30 December 1896, Page 2
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169LIST OF FATALITIES. Colonist, Volume XL, Issue 8751, 30 December 1896, Page 2
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