Fatal Mining Accident at Sandhurst, Victoria. (From the Argus, July 6.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 July 1875 · page 2
A shocking and fatal accident occurred at six o'clock this morning in the Kentish claim, Garden Gully, belonging to Mr. J. B.,Watapn. Thomas Drew, one of the night shift, was, with his mate,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Difficult Capture.—Narrow Escape from Drowning. (From the Newcastle Pilot, July 16.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 17 July 1875 · page 2
Last night, shortly after nine o'clock, Constables. Griffin and Dunshea arrested a man named Vitey, in Hunter-street, on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. The man resis[?]d, and the police succeeded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Boat Accident. (Evening News, Aug. 9.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 12 August 1875 · page 4
A melancholy and fatal boat accident occured in the harbour yesterday morning, resulting in the untimely death of a young man named John Mills and involving a narrow escape from a similar fate of two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Fatal Collision. London, August 20
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 August 1875 · page 2
The royal yacht Albert[?], with the Queen on board, when crossing from Cowes to Gosport, ran down the yacht Mistletoe, and three persons were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →English News by Cable. (From the Herald.) a Fatal Collision. London, August 20
The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 25 August 1875 · page 3
The Royal yacht Alberta, with, the Queen on board, when crossing from Cowes to Gosport, ran down the yacht Mistletoe, and three persons were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Collision in the Channel. London, August 28
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 August 1875 · page 2
An inquest was held relative to the catastrophe, by the collision between the Royal steamer Alberta and the yacht Mistletoe; the jury were unable to agree to a verdict…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →English News. by Cable. (From the Herald.) the Collision in the Channel. London, August 28
The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 1 September 1875 · page 3
AN inquest was held relative to the catasrtophe by the collision between the [?] al steamer Alberia and the yacht Mistletoe ; the jury were enable to agree…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Frightful Fatal Accident at Goulburn. (From the Southern Argus, Aug. 31.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 September 1875 · page 2
An accident of a peculiarly painful nature, ending fatally, occurred at Mr. C. Gillespies leather and tanning manufactory, Goulburn, on Saturday last. A young man named William Sheahan[?] aged between 27…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 September 1875 · page 2
A tree blew across the Totnes and Ashburton Railway on the morning of 9th July, and the first pas senger train ran into it, but fortunately no one was hurt. The line had not been given clear by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident at the "S. M. Herald" Printing Office. (From the Echo, Sept 8.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 6
An inquest was held on Wednesday morning at Tighe's Currency Lass Hotel, Pitt-street touching the death of one Thomas Doyle, lying dead at the Herald Office…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The English News. By Direct Telegrams. (Reuter's Telegrams to the Australian Associated Press in "S. M. Herald.") Collision of Ironclads. London, September 3
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 September 1875 · page 2
The ironclads Vanguard and Iron Duke came into collision off Wicklow, in a dense fog; the former sank is 19 fathoms water; no lives lost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Remarkable and Fatal Accident
The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 15 September 1875 · page 3
NEAR Inaugahua, New Zealand, two lath splitters, named respectively George Brown and Frank D'Leancourt were cross-cutting a fallen tree. The tree was lying lengthways…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Fatal Accident on the Great Northern Railway
The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 15 September 1875 · page 2
YESTERDAY morning about half-past time o'clock, another fatal accident occurred [?] the railway, opposite the station,to a man named Henry Sim[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Accident on a Victorian Railway
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 5
An accident occurred on the 16th instant (says the Geelong Advertiser) to the mixed train from Melbourne to Geelong. As the tram approached the Werribee Station, by some means or another the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Accident to Malcolm Mactaggart, Esq., Police Magistrate of Walgett. (From our Walgett correspondent.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 September 1875 · page 2
On Friday evening, the 17th instant, Mr. Malcolm Mactaggart, P.M. of this township, left here, in company with Sergeant Abbott, en route for Goodooga, on the Biree, to hold a court of Petty Sessions at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Crowd of Pilgrims Drowned
The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 3
INTELLIGENCE was received at Madura, on the 8th August, of a frightful catastrophe, which befel a party Of pilgrims to the Mahalingam shrine, on the Tinnevelly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strange Fatal Accident. (From the Argus, Oct. 1.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 7 October 1875 · page 2
An inquest was held on Wednesday by Mr. Candler, at Spring-vale, Mordialloc, on the body of Catherine M Kinnon, aged 74 years, a widow, who lived at Dandenong. On Monday night last she started to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strange fatal Accident
The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 9 October 1875 · page 4
An inquest was held [?] at Spring-vale, ( as reported in the Argus) on the body of C therine M kinnoa, aged 74 years,[?] who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Death by Drowning
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 October 1875 · page 2
The Coroner, Mr. J. W. Pearse, held an inquest at Mrs. Williamson's Hotel, East Maitland, yesterday morning, on the body of John Halbert, a youth aged l8, who was drowned in the river on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dreadful Mining Accident through Explosion
The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 13 October 1875 · page 3
A MINING accident occurred on the 8th instant in the winze of the Golden Point mine, at Lucknow, the particulars of which are simply horrible to relate. The…
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