Sailing Party Capsized. An Attempted Rescuer Drowned
A distressing fatality is reported from Adelaide. At about 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon William Strapps, clerk, went out in a canvas…
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Impaled on a Tree. Painful Accident
An accident of a painful nature occurred to a boy named Wyatt, son of a selector at Myall Vale, near Wee Waa. While an elder brother…
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A landslip which occurred at Haverstrap, New York, precipitated a clay pit one hundred feet, eight houses were demolished, and 16 persons killed, including members of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Mails Destroyed. Collision in Wyoming
A cablegram was received in Melbourne by the postal authorities on Friday from New Zealand, as follows: —…
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On Saturday, April 4th, 1868, a peculiar accident, happened at Mudie's Creek, iaitland road, when a team of horses attached to a dray, and in…
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A gowning fatality occurred at Farnborough (Q.) ou Sunday, when John Kershaw, aged 20, and a boy named Donald Brow, aged 8…
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An accident happened on Monday afternoon to a little boy named W. Partridge, nine years of age, living with his parents at Paddington. A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Peculiar Accident. Entangled in Barbed Wire
A man named William Davis was driving along the Nimitybelle-road, near Bombala, on Monday, When his horse bolted and ran into a wire fence,…
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Master Fred. Duffy, aged 16, son of Mr. Frank Duffy, for many years a resident of this town who was on a visit to his grand mother Mrs. Alfred Baker, of Ardglen,…
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A cablegram was received in Melbourne by the postal authorities on Friday from New Zealand, as follows:—"Mail agent reports that the Overland…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Collision at Sea. Great Disaster Feared
The captain of the barque Zanita, which arrived at Wallaroo, South Australia, on Saturday, reports that at 2 o'clock on Christmas morning, when he was 207 miles…
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[?] remarkable and fatal accident occurred about 4 o'clock last Tuesday afternoon, at the large Charing Cross railway station, of the South-Eastern Company. The roof of…
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The Marquis of Linlithgow, late Governor General of the Australian Commonwealth, [?]ile hunting at Tarporley, was thrown [?] his horse. His shoulder-blade was…
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Two men named John Abrahams and H. S. Thompson were drowned in the Swan River at Crawley (W.A.) on Sunday afternoon. With…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wallsend. the Recent Bus Fatality
At Wallsend to-day the district coroner (Mr. Hibble) held an inquest touching the death of Phillip James Carter, one of the victims of a bus smash on the West…
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A telegram from Albany dated Tuesday states that a labourer named William Ralph was the victim of an unfortunate occurrence. He proceeded to the house of a friend to select a puppy…
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Lynwood Washington, one of the best known fishermen in Albury district, met his death by drowning in the Murray on Sunday evening,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wallsend Omnibus Accident Finding at the Inquest
The inquest into the death of Philip James Carter, one of those who were fatally injured in the omnibus accident at Wallsend on the…
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The captain of the barque Zanita, which arrived at Wallaroo, South Australia, on Saturday, reports that at 2 o'clock on Christmas morning, when, he was 207 miles…
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An explosion of acetylene gas occurred at Collarendabri on Wednesday night, Mrs Barrett, of the Boyal Hotel, and Willie Fund, a Chinese…
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