A Peculiar Accident. a Tremendous Fall
AROUT 1 o'clock on Sunday morning a man named Samuel Hewitt fell from a third-storey window of Cameron's Family Hotel, Hunter-street West Newcastle,…
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268 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 14
Accident to a Mail Coach
THE coach travelling from Wile[?]nia to Loath on its last trip met with a chapter of accidents. It first get bogged all Saturday night in a creek, near Murtee…
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A DREADFUL accident took place on the railway at Richmond on Saturday. A girl, years old, daughter of Mr C. Roberts, butcher, was playing about…
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Early on Sunday morning (the Melbourne Argus says) a telegram was received by M. W. Croft, the officer in charge of the Melbourne Telegraph Office, from San Remo, Griffiths Point, at the eastern…
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In connection with the fire which occurred in Knox-street, Newtown, on Wednesday evening, it appears that three children of Mr Moetz, a German homœpahist, were sent…
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Singleton was thrown into a mournful state of excitement on Saturday evening, when the news rapidly spread that a fine yonng fellow named William Woods, aged 19 years, had been drowned…
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MR W. WALKER (Coroner for the district) held an Inquest at the Caledonia Hotel on Saturday evening, touching the death of William Woods, who was drowned that…
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A FEW days ago Mr Thomas Swift, of Bourkestreet was driving a cart having a load of water, and when entering promises the horse stumbled and the driver was thrown…
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A WOMAN when getting on a tram in Bourke street, Melbourne, on Saturdsy night was horrified to see a man apparently dead, lying partly under the car…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. [From Greville's Telegram Co.] SYDNEY, Tuesday night. Found Drowned
The body of a woman raspectably dressed was found floating in the harbour to-day. The body was taken to the morgue, but so far has not…
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A melancholy bathing fatality occurred at Whitlam, Durham, on the afternoon of September 21, whereby Miss Margaret Jeaner, a young lady employed as governess in the family of Archdeacon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at a Barracks. Several Injured. (By Cable.) London, Monday Night
A FIRE broke out at Wellington Barracks, London, during last night, resulting in the partial destruction of the quarters cocupied by the married men. Most of the inmates…
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THE Riverina Recorder gives the particulars of the frightful accident by which a young man named Robert Martin met his death. It appears that Martin had driven Mr J…
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It is an undoubted fact, observes the Newcastle Chronicle, that the moon is and has been for ages approaching closer to the earth, though whether a by fraction of an inch or a fraction of a yard in a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Railway Accident. Two Sheep Trains Collide. One Driver Seriously Injured
A RAILWAY accident occurred on Wednesday morning at Barbera' Creck, four miles from Yasa station. One stock train was following another from Bowring, as when the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Jamieson Divorce Case. an Injured Husband. Damages £500
ON Wednesday in the Divorce Court, before Mr Justice Windeyer. the suit of Roger Jamieson v. Charlette Harriett Jamicson (Thomas Frewin co-respondent) was heard…
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A SOMEWHAT serious and painful accident Wd Mr. Geo. Coates, of Murrurundi, on Saturday afternoon last, near Werris Creek. From enquiries made…
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A MAN named Richard Herbert was ran over by a tram motor at Newcastle on Wednesday night. John Hooker, driver of the tram, stated that at 14 minutes past 9 on the night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Lightning Fatality at Breeza. (Gunnedah Advertiser.)
On Thursday afternoon, during the time that the storm was at its height, George Johnston, the deceased, a stockman in the employ of Messrs. Clift Bros., of Breeza, and Mr. William Callaghan,…
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The Overland China Mail states that the passengers of the s.s. Guthrie arrived in Hongkong on October 12 by the Zafiro. Among their number was Mr. Andrew Crombie, a Queensland J.P.,…
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