[Editor: These two news reports were published in The Sydney Gazette, and New South Wales Advertiser (Sydney, NSW), 23 March 1816.]
[News reports]
On Tuesday, the 12th Inst. a Coroner’s Inquest was convened at a house on the Rocks, upon the body of John Robinson, who had put a period to his own existence by strangulation with a cord, in a fit of despondency; to which effect a verdict was returned. The deceased arrived as a seaman in the Mary Anne, & leaving his ship, went to lodge in the house wherein he committed the unhappy act.
A fine boy of 20 months old, son of Thomas Jackson, of Hunter-street, was some days since drowned in a vacuum at the upper end of Bent-street, that had been some years ago opened to receive the foundation of a building, which has been since declined; but the place not being refilled, contained a depth of water during the late rains, sufficient to produce the melancholy catastrophe.
Source:
The Sydney Gazette, and New South Wales Advertiser (Sydney, NSW), 23 March 1816, p. 2
Editor’s notes:
inst. = instant; in this month; a shortened form of the Latin phrase “instante mense”, meaning “this month”; pertaining to, or occurring in, the current month
period = completion, conclusion, end, finish
the Rocks = an area of inner Sydney (New South Wales)
See: “The Rocks, New South Wales”, Wikipedia
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