MELBOURNE.
The general discipline of the troops atSunburyis considered excellent. A General Order congratulates them. A new patent earth excavator has been tried with satisfactory results. News has been received of the loss of the Bessie, at Beagle Bay, Western Australia. Six lives were lost, including the master and his wife. There are 52 nominations for the Derby and 50 for the Oakes. Gavan Duffy denounces stonewalling tactics at Richmond. The body of Henry Pyle, aged fifteen, who died of typhoid fever, remained four days unburied. The mother was unable, through poverty, to bury it. The Mayor of Richmond ordered the Government undertaker to bury the body. A mam named James Ellis was killed on the Deniliquin railway.
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 53, 21 April 1877, Page 2
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118MELBOURNE. Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 53, 21 April 1877, Page 2
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