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(PER UNITED PRESS A8800TATION. ) Quebec, December 19. The express train from Si. Joseph io Quebec was derailed, and the carriages fell a distance of 20 feet. Five persons were killed and many injured. Bombay, December 19. I A house and general stores in the Native quarter, in which there were 100 occupants, suddenly collapsed, and 30 of the inmates were killed and many othera seriously injured. Waipawa, This Day; Colonel Herrisk, one of a picnic party was killed yesterday by falling from a height of eighty feet near the Oporac falls, Weber district. He struck on a rock before he reached the river. He was one of the oldest Hawkes Bay sheep farmers, and commanded the colonial forces at tha pursuit of Te Kooti in 1869.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 79, 20 December 1890, Page 2
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