Deaths From Drowning
MR: WILLIAM RAMSAV, son of the Sandhurst stationmaster, was drowned on Tuesday, December 21, at Runnymede. He was stopping at the Commercial Hotel at Runnymede, and went out to bathe in the…
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Accidents, 1876
16 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
Lamentadle Case of Drowning Near Catherine Hill Bay
NEWS was brought into Newcastle on the 1st instant from Catherine Hill Bay, or New Wallsend, that the daughter of Mr Boyd (a resident there, and late of Lake Macquarie) had lost her life on Saturday last…
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WE regret to have to record a very painful case of accidental poisoning by strych[?]ine on Wednesday morning last at Mr S. M'Caughoy's Coonong station, the victim being Mr G. Blunt, junior, licensed surveyor…
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THE correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph says:- Another great maritime disaster has occurred in St. George's Channel, involving loss of no fewer than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Wreck,—three Hundred and Ninety Pilgrims Drowned. Bombay, March 8
THE steamer Jowerdl has been wreeked. She left Jeddah on the 16th January, with upwards of 400 pilgrims. On the same night she struck on a reef known as Coomptus, and became a total wreek. 390…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision and Sinking of the Steam Tug Challenge Off Bradley's Head
THE following account of the collision referred to in our telegram of Tuesday last is taken from the log of the New England, as kept by the chief officer, Mr Mann:—" At 9.20 p.m. entered Sydney Heads with a light south-west breeze…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision Between the Steamer New England and the Challenge. Marine Board Inquiry
A PRELIMINARY inquiry into the circumstances attending the collision between the steamer New England and the steam-tug Challenge, on Sunday night 1st instant was commenced before the Marine Board on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Appalling Railway Accident
WE have to record another appalling accident on the Great Southern Railway. About six o'clock on Monday morning the dead body of a man was found on the line[?] car Ashfield. The body exhibited a most…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegraphic Despatches. Australian Associated PressTelegrams. Sydney, Monday Nihgt. the Late Collision
IT is uncertain yet whothor the appeal of the New South Wales Marine Board against His Honor Judge Hargrave's decision in the collision prohibition case will be prosecuted…
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BEFORE Mr Justice Hargrave in Chambers. EX PARTE DALTON. This was an application on behalf of Edward Dalton, master of the steam-tug Challenge, to set aside a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Collision Between the Queensland and Barrabool
THE inquiry into the collision between the s.s. Queensland and the s.s. Barrabool was concluded on the 9th instant (the Argus reports) by the Steam Navigation Board, and resulted in the Court tinding that the…
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ON Sunday morning, 14th June, a shocking calamity occurred at Easterbourne by which twelve persons, nearly all young men belonging to the artisan class, met with their death. About ten minutes past ll, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Collision in the Brisbane River
NOTHING which has occurred in Brisbane for many years created so general and painful a sensation as the accident which on the 9th instant occurred to the steamer Emu, while returning from the bay with a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Extraordinary Accident at Singletion
THE Singleton Argus informs us that an accident, of a very unusual and dangerous character, which happened to Mr. Ralph Miller, J.P., of Corinda, who was acting as a steward of the Singleton Races. The bell was…
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ON Wednesday last an inquest was hold at the British Hotel, Ryan-street, South Grafton, before Alfred Lardner, Esq., J. P., Coroner, on the body of Phillip Donohue, found drowned on the previous day,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dispressing Case of Drowning
IT is our painful duty to record the death by drowning of a fine boy, aged mine years, son of Mr. C. Blizard, who is in the employ of the C. and R.R.S.N.Co. It seems the boy, some time on Wednesday morning…
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