A Bather Drowned
Sydney, Friday.—A young man named Peter Hogan, while bathing at Bronte, near Waverly, yesterday, got out of his depth and being [?]able to swim was drowned. The…
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Drowning of a Clergyman in New Zealand
The Otago Daily Times of December 24 states that the Rev. George Morice, Presbyterian minister of Balclutha, met his death by drowning in a very sad manner the day…
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Sydney, Tuesday.—Mr. Hugh Taylor, M.P., who was kicked yestsrday in the abdomen by a horse, has, after sevral hours, refrained consciousness, but is…
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A shocking accident occurred at Morpeth on Monday afternoon to Abraham Keating, son of Mr. John Keating, which terminated fatally early yesterday morning. It appeared from the evidence elicited at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Accidnet on the Western Line. Three Persons Injured. Received 11.15 p.m
A railway collision occurred on the western line The accident occurred at Lawson station on Sunday, when two engines collided while shunting. Three persons were injured. A dense fog had prevailed…
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By telegraph yesterday forenoon and evening we received the following news of a terrible railway accident which had occurred on the Great Southern Railway line:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowned at Bolwarra. (From a correspondent.)
[On Wednesday last we published a paragraph stating that a young man named Walker had been drowned at Bolwarra while bathing on the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Great Railway Accident. [By Telegraph From Greville's Co.] the Inquest. Sydney
At the railway accident inquest, the following was the principal evidence taken yesterday:— James Glynn, station master, Bethungra, remembered Sunday evening; he was at the station when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Maitland Mercury. Thursday, January 29, 1885. the Railway Accident
NEW SOUTH WALES has attained the sad notoriety of being the theatre of a railway casualty more terrible than any yet recorded in Australian annals. No element of horror…
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All the persons enquired for by their friends have been heard of. There is no reason to believe anybody else is now missins in the railway disaster…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, February 3, 1885. the Railway Accident
"WE are now in possession of fuller information than was last week available, on the subject of the lamentable disaster at Cootamundra. The subject must be looked at in…
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Moody, the engine-driver, arrived yesterday at the Goulburn hospital. Stone is recovering slowly and is able to sit up, and strength is being restored to his…
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Sydney. Friday.—A railway collision occurred at Rooty Hill yesterday, attributable to the brakes of the special train being powerless. The fireman…
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Sydney, Tuesday.—An inquest was commenced this afternoon, and adjourned, on William Howell, a draper, who was killed yesterday by the fall of a verandah in front…
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Sydney, Tuesday.—A man named James Kenny fell off the Botany tram yesterday, the wheel of which passed over his left [?] which had to be amputated upon his…
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Sydney, Friday,—The Marino Board has suspended. Captain Ingham's (of the steamer Glancus) certificate for three months, for the collision with the…
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Sydney, Friday.—A gentleman named Ryeland, on a visit, from Queensland, was accidentally drowned while bathing yesterday with his brother at Bondi…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Painful Accident to a Lady
Sydney, Friday.— The wife of Mr B. Lee, Police Magistrate of Bathurst, was standing on a chair hanging a parcel in a book when her finger rings somehow caught in the…
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Sydney, Friday.—The man killed by the train yesterday at Stanmore has been identified as William Holting, formerly residing in Petersham…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Accident in Victoria. (By Telegraph to the Herald.) Albury
An accident happened to the down mail train from Melbourne to-day at Wallan Wallan Station, near Kilmore, where the train had pulled up, when it was run into by the…
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