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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents
12 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
YESTERDAY afternoon, about five o'clock, Messrs. Yeager and Grimes' steam launch Vesta, from Casino to Coraki, capsized about nine miles below Casino, while turnig a bend in the Richmond River. Five…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MAGISTERIAL inquiry was held at Coraki, before the Police Magistrate, on Friday, 23rd instant, on view of the bodies of William Yabsley, Esq., J.P., of Coraki, James Marshall and wife, of Woodburn, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE third half-yearly meeting of the directors and shareholders of the Australasian Accident Assurance Association was held on Wednesday, at the offices, Pitt-street. Mr T. Gillespie (chairman) presided,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE steamer Hankow had a narrow escape from total destruction, with all on board, on Sunday might, 8th February. She lost her propeller on 3rd February, 33 miles off Oporto, and proceeded to England under…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR. ROBERTSON, M.R.C.S., gave a series of practical demonstrations of methods of restoring the apparently drowned, at the St. Kilda Town Hall, on April, 27. He…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CAPTAIN SKINNER, of the Company's steamer Kembla, furnishes the following particulars of what might almost be termed a miraculous occurrence. The captain reports that last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Thursday last, at Creighton's Commercial Hotel, Ulmarra, the coroner (Mr. A. Lardner, J.P.), and a jury of twelve, held an inquiry into the cause of the tlenth of William Connor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE was considerable excitement in Grafton on Monday morning last, when the news was telegraphed from the Clarence Heads, that the steamer Wanganui, commanded by Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN appaling calamity happened on the South Pacific Coast Railroad on Sunday afternoon, May 23, by which sixteen persons were killed and forty others badly wounded or slightly bruised. It is the second…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A CORONER'S inquest was held on Saturday last, at the Commercial Hotel, Ulmarra, before the Coroner (Mr. Alfred Landner, J.P.), and a jury of twelve, touching the death of John M'Lennon. Jury—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM the Wellington Evening Post the following details of the terrible railway accident on the Rimutaka incline are taken:—The ill-fated train, consisted of two composite carriages, an ordinary brake-van and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PITTSBURGH October 11.—A terrible accident occurred on Saturday night on the Pennsylvanian Road, near the Twenty-eighth-street crossing, Pittsburg, caused by the neglect of the flagsman to signed a section train…
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