The Fatal Accident to a Colonial Trooper.
0 (Per Press Association.) London, Juno 8. A sum of £50 was collected on bonrd the Orotatß on her trip from Australia for the purpose of erecting a monument lo Trooper Sneller, of the We9t Austra^ lian force for the Record Reign demons tration who was hilled by the falling of a block on the voyage, and was buried at Gibraltar. Sneller was on a prohibited portion of the deck where alterations to the rigging were being made when the accident happened. His visit to London was unknown by hit relatives, whom he intended lo surprise-
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 287, 10 June 1897, Page 3
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