Line 3.0.0 Sydney, January 28.

Line 3.0.1 Abner Hammond, 56 years of age, a

Line 3.0.2 retired butcher, living at Strathfield, com

Line 3.0.3 mitted suicide this morning by shooting

Line 3.0.4 himself with a revolver. Hammond had

Line 3.0.5 Been suffering for a number of years from

Line 3.0.6 chronic indigestion, and lately had been

Line 3.0.7 very despondent,

Line 3.0.8 William Watham, who some years ago

Line 3.0.9 was a prominent jockey, was found dead

Line 3.0.10 in Centennial Park this morning. Near his

Line 3.0.11 hand was a small revolver, and there was

Line 3.0.12 a bullet wound in the left temple. Watham

Line 3.0.13 was injured through a horse falling on

Line 3.0.14 him at Tamworth some time. ago and was

Line 3.0.15 forced to give up the turf as a means of

Line 3.0.16 livelihood.

Line 3.0.17 John L. Harvey, 17 years of age, an ap

Line 3.0.18 prentice on- the ship Kynance, lying at

Line 3.0.19 Miller's Point, slipped from aloft this after-

Line 3.0.20 noon and fell to the bottom of the hold,

Line 3.0.21 a distance of 30 ft. He was killed in-

Line 3.0.22 stantly.

Line 3.0.23 Silas Mosley, 11 years of age, shot dead

Line 3.0.24 his brother Donald, six years old, with a

Line 3.0.25 double-barrelled gun at Arnciiffe. to-day.

Line 3.0.26 The boys, who live with their -parents at

Line 3.0.27 52, City-road, Darlington, were visiting a

Line 3.0.28 relation. They were playing about the

Line 3.0.29 back yard, when the elder noticed a

Line 3.0.30 double-barrelled gun leaning against the

Line 3.0.31 fence. He picked it up, and was toying

Line 3.0.32 with it, when Donald said to him, ''Point

Line 3.0.33 it at me." Silas did so and pulled the

Line 3.0.34 trigger of one barrel. The gun went off,

Line 3.0.35 and the whole charge entered Donald's .

Line 3.0.36 head, shoulders, and chest, killing him in-

Line 3.0.37 stantly.

Line 3.0.38 Sydney, January 30.

Line 3.0.39 George Shannon, 51 years of age, was

Line 3.0.40 killed at Coogee to-day through a pair of

Line 3.0.41 horses in a lorry, he was driving, bolting j

Line 3.0.42 and throwing him over the fore-carriage.

Line 3.0.43 He was dragged about 150 yards.

Line 3.0.44 January 31.

Line 3.0.45 An accident happened on the Melbourne

Line 3.0.46 express yesterday morning, when William

Line 3.0.47 Robert Jones, one of the railway examining

Line 3.0.48 staff, received injuries to his head which

Line 3.0.49 resulted in his death a few hours later.

Line 3.0.50 Charles Leslie, 55 years of age, a recent

Line 3.0.51 arrival in this State from Scotland, com-

Line 3.0.52 mitted suicide at the residence of his son-

Line 3.0.53 in-law, at St. Peters, this morning. Last i

Line 3.0.54 night the deceased retired apparently in his ;

Line 3.0.55 normal condition, but at an early hour this

Line 3.0.56 morning his body was found in the back

Line 3.0.57 yard. His throat was cut from ear to ear,

Line 3.0.58 and near his right hand was a blood

Line 3.0.59 stained table knife.

Line 3.0.60 Melbourne, January 30.

Line 3.0.61 Albert Dobson, while attempting to board

Line 3.0.62 a tram at South Melbourne on Saturday

Line 3.0.63 night, fell between the dummy and the car,

Line 3.0.64 two wheels of which passed over his right

Line 3.0.65 leg. The limb was fearfully crushed, and

Line 3.0.66 It was found necessary to amputate it

Line 3.0.67 below the knee. Dobson's wife is at present

Line 3.0.68 in a hospital, and there is a family of six.

Line 3.0.69 young children.

Line 3.0.70 A fire, attended by the death of an en-

Line 3.0.71 gine-driver, James Monaghan, broke out

Line 3.0.72 Shortly before midnight on Saturday, at

Line 3.0.73 the premises known as the Phoenix Biscuit

Line 3.0.74 Factory, Abbotsford. Monaghan, who is

Line 3.0.75 employed on the premises, was one of the

Line 3.0.76 first to observe the fire. He and the

Line 3.0.77 watchman got a small hose on, and were

Line 3.0.78 playing on the flames, when the wire which

Line 3.0.79 carries the current of electricity from the

Line 3.0.80 Melbourne Electric Lighting Company's

Line 3.0.81 works to the motor engine belonging to the

Line 3.0.82 factory, became fused by the heat, and fell

Line 3.0.83 from the insulators. The wire fell

Line 3.0.84 upon Monaghan, who immediately col-

Line 3.0.85 lapsed. A doctor was called, and after

Line 3.0.86 working for about an hour in attempting to

Line 3.0.87 restore respiration without success, he de-

Line 3.0.88 cided to have the man removed to the Mel-

Line 3.0.89 bourne Hospital. On arrival there life was

Line 3.0.90 found to be extinct.

Line 3.0.91 January 31.

Line 3.0.92 Richard Ramsden, owner of tue' Brung

Line 3.0.93 Brungle estate, near Wannon, was found

Line 3.0.94 early this morning in his bedroom, badly

Line 3.0.95 burned. His bedding had become ignited.

Line 3.0.96 When found he was partly out of bed, and

Line 3.0.97 almost suffocated. A doctor was sum-

Line 3.0.98 moned, and on arrival found that life was

Line 3.0.99 extinct.

Line 3.0.100 Hobart, January 27.

Line 3.0.101 The body of Joseph Walker was to-day

Line 3.0.102 found in a waterhole. He had evidently

Line 3.0.103 made a most determined attempt at sui-

Line 3.0.104 cide, for before getting into the water

Line 3.0.105 hole he had cut some veins, and this was

Line 3.0.106 sufficient to have caused his death.

Line 3.0.107 Leonara (W.A.). January 28.

Line 3.0.108 The accountant of the Western Austra-

Line 3.0.109 lian Bank at Malcolm, C. L. Glyde, was

Line 3.0.110 found dead in his room to-day by the mana-

Line 3.0.111 ger of the bank, having apparently shot

Line 3.0.112 himself. Glyde was one of the pioneer

Line 3.0.113 officers on the goldfields' staff. He was

Line 3.0.114 about 30 years of age, and left a widow,

Line 3.0.115 who resides at Northam.

Line 3.0.116 Herbert Austin Norton, a young man, re-

Line 3.0.117 siding at Unley, died on January 27 from

Line 3.0.118 hemorrhage of the brain. On Monday the

Line 3.0.119 deceased, when bathing at tin? Gleneig

Line 3.0.120 baths, dived from a considerable height,

Line 3.0.121 and was with difficulty enabled to reach the

Line 3.0.122 landing. It is thought that he struck the

Line 3.0.123 bottom of the bath with his head. The

Line 3.0.124 City Coroner was informed of Norton's