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  2. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE BY A MEDICAL MAN.

    Dr. Long, of Blackwood, died suddenly on Saturday 27th November, under circumstances which leave no doubt that he poisoned himself in a fit of despondency after heavy drinking. At ...

    Article : 470 words
  3. LATE AMERICAN NEWS.

    The St. John, from San Francisco, brings nine days' later papers. The Republicans carried the Californian elections by large majorities. ...

    Article : 95 words
  4. THE END OF THE ENGLISH MIMIC WAR.

    A review of all the troops who had been engaged in the autumn manoeuvres took place at Aldershot on the 22nd September. The inspection was made by the Duke of Cambridge, who ...

    Article : 892 words
  5. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A SCHOOLBOY.

    On Friday last, in the afternoon, a boy named Henry Gilmour, aged eight years, the son of a storeman residing at Emerald Hill, was running along the street on his way to school, when his ...

    Article : 141 words
  6. DEATH BY DROWNING.

    The Moonee Ponds Creek was the scene of a sad accident last week. A woman named Ellen M'Carthy, aged fifty years, the wife of Timothy Edward M'Carthy, who resided near the creek ...

    Article : 171 words
  7. NOT A MURDER.

    The Riverine Herald reports that the missing man Reilly has been found, and the public mind has thus been relieved from the dread that a horrible murder had been committed. Not the least ...

    Article : 185 words
  8. SOUTH SEA ATROCITIES.

    The Reconnaissance arrived from Fiji on Sunday, and reports that the schooner Cambria, after having part of her crew killed at the Solomon Islands, reached Levuka with six labourers, who ...

    Article : 173 words
  9. SHORT OF PROVISIONS AT SEA.

    News of a tea barque, short of provisions, off the coast, came to hand on Tuesday. Captain Mills of the Sarah Ann, a collier that arrived in the Bay, reports that when off Ram Head at ...

    Article : 207 words
  10. WIFE-STABBING AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT WHITE HILLS.

    The inhabitants of White Hills, a small and quiet mining locality near Maryborough, were convulsed with excitement early last Saturday morning by a rumour, which spread rapidly to ...

    Article : 642 words
  11. CATASTROPHE IN THE ARCTIC SEAS.

    The Aureola has arrived from Honolulu. She brings sad intelligence from the Arctic seas. The ice set in much earlier than usual this season, and a large portion of the American whaling fleet ...

    Article : 134 words
  12. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE FALLS.

    A fatal accident occurred on Saturday afternoon. Charles Smeaton, a little boy aged nine years, was playing with another lad about his own age on the south bank of the Yarra, near the ...

    Article : 92 words
  13. A SCENE AT A COUNCIL.

    The difficulties of the Hotham Borough Council seem to be increasing. For some months put they have been puzzled by the appearance of an extra-councillor at their table. Now it has been ...

    Article : 699 words
  14. A BOY BURNED TO DEATH.

    A little boy named Robert Jones, six years of age, was taken to the Geelong Hospital on Saturday by his mother, suffering from severe burns, which had extended over his whole body, and ...

    Article : 147 words
  15. EXECUTION OF PATRICK GEARY.

    Patrick Geary, the murderer of the shepherd Thomas Brookhouse eighteen years ago, whose crime was in so remarkable a manner discovered after such a long lapse of time, on Monday suffered ...

    Article : 272 words
  16. FATAL ACCIDENTS.

    An accident which occurred three weeks back to a man named William Thomas Harper, aged 27, a labourer, employed upon the North-Eastern Railway line at Cragieburn, has had a fatal ...

    Article : 233 words
  17. THE OVERLAND TELEGRAPH LINE.

    Farther advices have been received respecting the progress of the Overland Telegraph work. The party of operators and other hands under charge of Mr. Boucaut were at the Peake on the ...

    Article : 254 words
  18. ANOTHER DRUNKARD BURNED.

    At a late hour on Sunday night, a man named John Jenkins met with a horrible death in his hut, Ironstone Hill, Epsom. He had been staying at a shanty near his place of abode all Sunday ...

    Article : 310 words
  19. ANOTHER INFANTICIDE.

    The body of an infant was found on Saturday in a well at rear of Mr. J. Aitken's premises, Grave street, Castlemaine. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Aitken that he had not used the ...

    Article : 259 words
  20. A WHARF LOAFER.

    A statement was made at the City Court on Monday by a wharf loafer named Samuel Varty, which, if true, tends to show that there are people in Melbourne whose generosity is of a very ...

    Article : 332 words
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