Accident to the Speaker
Mr J. P. Abbott, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, met with rather a casty accident last week. Whilst oiling the machinery of a windmill the…
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Fatal Accident at the Queenscliff Fort. (By telegraph to the Herald.) Melbourne
A fearful accident occurred at the Queenscliff Fort yesterday, Corporal Charles Brearly and Gunner Donaldson, both of the Geelong Battery, being blown bodily from the breach of a six-inch…
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A serious collision occurred in Nowcastic Harbour last night between barques Conference and [?] through tbh helm of the former going wrong. The whole of the…
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At Melbourne yesterday afternoon an eider sister took an infant, aged 18 months, in a perambulator on to the Mornington cliffs. She left the vehicle for a moment, when it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Torpedo Explosion at Middle Head. Four Men Killed. Several Injured. [By TELEGRAPH] Sydney
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred at Middle Head this afternoon. Lieutenants Hammond and Bedford, Corporal M'Kee and trumpter Bennett were killed. A number of others…
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We take from the S. M. Herald, further particulars of this disastrous event:— Middle Head, Friday. A terrible calamity has to be recorded just on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Collision in a Tunnel Terrible Scenes
THE Pall Mall Gazelle of February 25th says:—A disastrous collision occurred in the Fourth Avenue tunnel, New York, about seven o'clock…
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A railway accident occurred this morning, when the newspaper train from Sydney smashed into some standing trucks at St, Mary's. No one was hurt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision of Goods Trains at Newcastle. (Newcastle Herald of Wednesday.)
About a quarter to 7 o'clock last evening, a number of pedestrians and residents in the locality of the lower portion of Wolfe-street were startled by hearing a succession of loud bumps in the…
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Another fatal accident occurred at Penrith this morning, making the fourth since the 3rd of last month, when a man na[?] Daniel Kieran…
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We (Echo) received intimation from the the Hon. Daniel O'Connor, Postmaster-General, that the mails from Limeburner's Creek, Booral, Stroud, Gloucester, Taree, Tinonee, Cundletown, Port…
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A TERRIBLE railway accident occurred at Penrith railway stsation on Friday, where a man named David Kieran was cut to pieces. The unfortunate follow was…
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A violent gale was experienced on March 5, at Shefield, during which a series of extrordinary accidents occurred at the [?] Bank Board School, which stands in a very clovated…
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On Sunday evening a great deal of excitement and sorrow was created in Maitland when news came to hand, that a young man named John Mather had been drowned at Seaham some time…
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A LETTER has received at portsmonth giving, particulars of the last voyage of H.M.S. Orontes across the Atlantic when she Encountered terrific…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Explosion in Rome. Accident to the Pope. London
FURTHER reports from Rome go show that the effects of the gunpowder ex plosion in the city on Thursday were very serious…
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Our readers will have heard by wire of the collision between the Anchor Line steamer Utopia, bound from Naples for New York with 830 passengers, and H.M.S. Anson, off Gibraltar. The…
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It is feared that the boy Easy, who was injured at the fatal accident by which the man Hecketop was killed yesterday afternoon, will .not re[?]vel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Ammonia Explosion. Several Men Injured. One Dead. Five Houses Killed
AN explosion of most serious nature happened about noon on Thursday at the Fresh Food and Ice Company's Works, Sydney, wheeby six men wore most…
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A railway accident took place at Calcairn at half-past twelve this morning. A goods train was shuating at the station when the Melbourne cxpress, not noticing the danger…
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