AN EMERGENCY COFFIN.
Q'neofa party of timber-betters on <ho Hodgkinson (Qneensl'ifd) died tin; 'other day'(wi'it'es "/E«le.i' in the Australasian.) Poor Charlie was a favourite and his mates determined, inst'end of using the customary two <dieets of bark, to Vruike aconin 'for him. Tie w;'s measured ■with a stockwhip, and the prcking-cases ill camp were laid u»(hrconfribution to 'furnish material. The result was that \vlien that timber ,-hroud wascrniple'ed the poor departed v. as erdor-cd ''] ; iekl >" oft one .side, "Torn.ito jSaeeV on the otlifer, whilst acivss his I roast was the familiar brand of the- battle axe—that deadly weapon so efficiently wielded bv James Fennesy and Co.'- I don't know," Say's a wliat the first two liad to do with th<- matter, but upon my soiil, dear a more e.pproepitaph than tl.e latter could not, I>e found for a great many of those who "die in Northern Queensland. 1 ' For remainder of nows see'last page.
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Kumara Times, Issue 915, 5 September 1879, Page 3
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154AN EMERGENCY COFFIN. Kumara Times, Issue 915, 5 September 1879, Page 3
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