An Ice Accident.—four Brothers Drowned
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 April 1888 · page 7
A shocking ice accident occurred on Sunday, March 4, in Wirral, Cheshire, whereby the four sons of George Day, a gamekeeper in the service of Mr. Banner, of Puddington Hall, were drowned in…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 April 1888 · page 2
An accident occurred yesterday to the early goods train frem Williamstown. One of the last tracks jumped the points near the pier, dragging a number of…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 April 1888 · page 3
ON Friday evening Mr L. B. Hedley of the local branch of the Commercial Bank, had the bones of his left hand broken by a kick from a restless horse. At the time of the…
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The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 April 1888 · page 2
ON Tuesday evening last, at about 6 o'clock, a frightful accident happened on the railway line about a mile the north of Willow Tree, when a man…
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Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 2
WITH reference to the paragraph in our last issue to the effect that a man had been run over and killed on the railway line at Willow Tree, the following…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. [From Greville's Telegram London. Monday. a Fatal Collision
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 May 1888 · page 2
A serious collision occurred in the English Channel in the vicinity of the Need's between the clipper ship Smyrna, on roots from London to Sydney, and the Sterne…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 May 1888 · page 2
A shocking accident happened at a crossing on the Hills railway yesterday. A man named John Hamlyn was returning home along the Glenelg-road in a bugey,…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 May 1888 · page 2
The body of the man Hammond, who was buried by the fall of stone at the Kiama quarry accident, has been recovered, in a terribly mangled condition. Myers, who had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Gun Accident and Suicide. (Echo's Telegram.) Mudgee
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 12 May 1888 · page 4
An inqnest was held at Capertee camp, yesterday, before Mr. M. J. Gallagher, J.P., on the body of a man named Frederick D. Kilner, who met his death by a gunshot wound…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 7 June 1888 · page 3
On April 23, Dr. Diplock held an inquest at the Anchor Hotel, Shepperton, on the body of Colin Henry Castle, aged 13, who had been drowned with another youth, by the capsizing of a sailing boat…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 7
A serious collision, which was attended by the loss of fourteen lives, occurred off the South Foreland, and not far from the Goodwin Sands, early on the morning of April 16. The steamship Vena,…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 June 1888 · page 5
All day long the hurrying crowds had jostled him as he wandered aimlessly along the streets—a restless, inward devil urging him blindly on, somewhere. Nore than once hurrying pedestrians had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?]Riginal Correspondence. [?]Te Buggy Accident Near Dunmore Bridge. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.) In last Saturday's issue "S.A.H." writes
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 June 1888 · page 3
[?]—In last Saturday's issue "S.A.H." writes [?] correct what he says are false statements in [?]ection with the buggy accident, which hap[?]ed to me and my daughter some time since on…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1888 · page 3
SIR,—In last Saturday's issue I saw by reading it the argument about the buggy accident. Now, both parties have had their say, I am at liberty to have mine. I saw the two persons standing…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 July 1888 · page 3
A fatal and most melancholy accident occurred on Saturday evening lost at about 7 o'clock at the Armidale Railway Station, by which Mr. Peter B. Gleeson, a clerk in the parcels office at the station,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FICTION. From English, American, and Other Periodicals. the Romance of an Inheritance. Chapter Xxx. a Shocking Fatality and a Startling Discovery
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1888 · page 2
It was a great relief to Virgie to know that the Heaths were gone, for now she would be perfectly free from all restraint and could go about as much as she desired without the fear of encountering…
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Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 July 1888 · page 3
A youth named Williams was terribly mutilated at a brick works near Melbourne yesterday by being caught in a driving belt. He died on admission to the hospital…
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Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 July 1888 · page 3
There was a great railway smash half-amile from Gunning this morning. An express was travelling at the rate of thirty miles, an hour, when the axle of the truck…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 July 1888 · page 7
At the Theatre Royal, Berlin, on May 28, a shocking accident occurred, involving a loss of human life. The disaster might, indeed, have been much more calamitous. It appears that since May…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 14 July 1888 · page 7
On Saturday (says the Bligh Watchman) Wnlter George Nelson, a boy 13 years old, son of Mr. ANelson, Garrawilla, near Coonabarabran, was shootiig kangaroos with his elder brother, Robert, and…
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