The Late Collision
The Marine Board have found that the collision between the Keilawarra and the Helen Nicoll was due to the reckless navigation of the late Captain Buttrey,…
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Drowned Whilst Bathing
The body of E Hogon, brother of M r P. Hogan M.P., was found at Coogee Bay this morning. It is supposed he was accidentally drowned whilst bathing…
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Arthur Nixon, employed at Fa[?] and Co's. as a cutter, was accident[?] drowned on Saturday night night through upsetting of a boat…
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On Sunday morning a passenger train—consisting of five American carriages and one ordinary guard's van—left Ashfield, passing the signal-box at 5 a.m. On reaching Petersham, finding the…
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At Woodenbung station, on the upper Clarence, a whole family, named Evans, comprising the father, mother, and three children, were drowned during the recent…
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Albert King, a son of the proprietor of the Royal Hotel, Tamworth, was drowned yesterday whilst bathing…
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Further particulars respecting the [?] accident to the express train, from Bosteck Montreal, show that the train caught find burnt for thirty minutes. It was impossible…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempt to Assassinate the Premier of Tonga. Mr. Baker Escaped. His Son and Daughter Severely Injured. [By Electric Telegraph From Greville's Telegram Co.] Received Wednesday evening
Latest particulars show that the attempt to assassinate the Premier of Tonga was made on the evening of January 13. As Mr. Baker was driving from the Government office to his house, being…
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A young man Thomas Whitehead was killed at Paddington yesterday by falling off his van, the wheels of which passed over his chest and neck…
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Particulars were received in Liverpool on Jan. 3 of the collision off Bardsey Island, Cardigan Bay, between the Liverpool steamer Dragoman, outward bound to Bombay, via Cardiff, and the London ship…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Coonanbara-Syren Collision. (From Wednesday's Echo.)
Almost immediately after having to report the loss of the tug Ranger, another marine casualty takes place. In this instance the steamer Conanbara, of the Newcastle Steamship Company, and the…
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The Marino Board has called upon Captain Anderson, of the steamer Coonanbara, to show cause why his certificate should not be cancelled or…
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A CORRESPONDENT telegraphs that a terrible boating accident took place on the Seine, just above the bridge of Clichy, a mile north-west of Paris on…
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The survivors of the Kapunda declare that the Ada Melmore was without sidelight at the time of the collision and that she wrongly ported her belm…
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A recent accident at Perkasie, Pa., tunnel shows the importance of their ventilation. The above tunnel is about half a mile long. Repairs are being made therein. On the 3rd instant…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The Steamboat Collision in Sydney Harbour. (From the Herald.)
The waters of the Circular Quay were the scene of a startling and serious collision late on Thursday night between two ferry steamers plying on the Manly and North Shore lines. The boats collided…
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A RAILWAY accident of an alarming character occured at noon on Monday, January 27, on the Mid Kent section of the South Eastern Railway at…
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The Marino Board have found both captains equally to blame for the E[?] Waratah collision, and have called upon them to show cause why their certificate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Terrible Collision. (From the North China Mail, January 26.)
On Friday morning the P. and O. Co.'s tender arrived here, bringing the survivors from the Chinese transport Wan Nein Ching. From information we have collected we learn that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Sad Fatality. (Argus, March 17.) Geelong
This morning Mr. Stephen Tanner, a resident of Cowes Creek, reported to the police that he had accidentally killed his son Leonard Paul Tanner, at half-past 7 o'clock that morning. The accident…
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