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ATH. D. : — 4 On the Tth June, at his residence, Laidley, | Alired Door 46 yea | A sail and painful accident, ho terminated fy | fatally, ocenrred to Mr. A. of Mount Mistake | saw tills. on Friday norning lost Mn. Doorey had | fone t the foot ofthe: shoot to watch the men lowering. some: cedar logs from the top of the monn. tain, anil occupied a shot where a great many others had stood at times for some months past, aait was con. sidered the safest. Afterstanding Alninute ortwo, one {| of the men knocked ont the.dogs front a low that wid }| about to be sent down, and in its descent it str ke” the mass of yock behind which Mr. Do standing, smashing it to pieces, Onc large lump: struck him with considerable force in the pit of thy stomach, and a number of small pieces hit hares the back and sides. Some of the men, inclndin ¢ his so Edwin, a at once to the unfortunate ava assistance,and, having impvoviged a litter, they carried him to his tesidenee, sebore le Titer toe 9:30 in the morning to 2°30 a.m, on Saturday, when death put an end to his sufferings, “He retnained | perfectly conscious to the last. ‘The body was brought into Laidley on Sunday afternoon, j met at Mr. M‘Grath’s, about five miles away, by a lange number of horsemen who had riddé. out’ to. follow thesremains as a mark of respect to the de- ceased gentleman. » The body was deposited at Mr. | S, Cooper's en roue for Brisbane, where the deceased was butied yesterday afternoon in the South Brishane if Gemeteny. " Spealking of Mi: Doorey’s death, yestet, My’s Coltrier says :—“Mx, Doorey was known it yBrishane in the building line in connection with sory important works, as for instance Hoffnung and Co,’ Store, and, as far as we have heard, was his i both by his workmen and those for-whony corked. He was for some time a membe Municipal Council, and a useful practical msi | as'elsewwhore. A fire, which consamed his workshops | at South Brisbane, bummed him ont, so to speak, of © "| the city ; but with indomitable energy he tackled the | heavy job ‘of fitting up the saw-mills at Mount Mis: |P take, and working the splendid timber to be found \ jm the stinounding ranges. Many in this-vity will |p = tegret the too sudden taking off of a man like Alfred i 268 irs Dorey in the full vigour of life and with 7a pitt-a energy that we so much need in these colonics she Herbera of Monat MARRIAGES, 0ORBY.« vat END NOVICE, SMITH and Family, to tender their sincere 8 id Nurses of the ts ers Misericordiae Hos and to all jends for their messages of sym- || and “floral: tributes in their recent i sveavement. i

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