Accident From Drowning
ACCIDENT FROM DROWNING.—A boy, twelve years of age, named Alfred Swinnon, who had been residing with Mr. Myles, Burton-street, was drowned whilst…
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ACCIDENT FROM DROWNING.—A boy, twelve years of age, named Alfred Swinnon, who had been residing with Mr. Myles, Burton-street, was drowned whilst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colonel Temple, the president of the Municipal Commission, Captain Hope, aide-de-camp to H. E. the Governor, and the two Misses M'Iver, daughters of M. John M'Iver, the secretary and manager of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is my Bad duty to have to record the death of a young man in the employ of David Berry, Esq., of Coolangatta. It appears the deceased, in company with others, were out in search of cattle, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The change, as by magic, from high spirits, healthy exercise, and hearty enjoyment, to disaster, and death, was too horrible, too crushing for the mind to take in at once. It was not till the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sad and serious is the change in this district's prospects from this day week, and short, was the time for the accomplishment of the dreadful suits—three persons drowned—crops and fencing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Wednesday last, T.M. Richards, Esq., Coroner for the district of Shoalhaven, and a jury of seven, held an inquest, at the house of Mrs Isaacs, Terrara, touching the death of Patrick Searson, who died in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great excitement was occasioned at an early hour yesterday morning by a report that Mr George Hewlett the local manager of the E, S. &. A. Chartered Bank, had met with his death by drowning while…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of those unforseen accidents which too frequently occur through the careless use of firearms befell a young lad of some ten or eleven years old. It appears, from what I can glean, that a son of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A rush of the rain-swollen river, A twirl of the treachorous tide— A girl, wish a sigh and a shiver, Peers over the dark water-side;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A rush of the rain-swollen river, A twirl of the treacherous tide— A girl, with a sigh and a shiver Poers over the dark water-side:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Through a young man, who rode over on horsehack from Richmond to Penrith, we learn that great havoc had been caused on Richmond Bottoms, the flat between Richmond town and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday afternoon an accident of a painful nature happened to a man named Charles Elsey, employed on the jetty works. It appears that Elsey with two or three more men were in the act of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scarcely have the effects of late disastrous floods softened down in the public mind, ere it is our painful duty to record a terrible disaster on the return of boisterous weather. On Sunday last, about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have recently had several deaths from drowning in our district, and other cases which nearly proved fatal on several of those occasions, I was struck with the want of knowledge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The leading principles of the following directions for restoration of the apparently dead from drowning are founded on those of the late Dr. Marshall Hall, combined with those of Dr. H. R…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sunday, about 10 o'clock in the morning a sad accident by burning happened to a little boy belonging to a party named James Brown. It appears that Mr Brown, mother of the deceased, went for water…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent states that, a few days ago, a number of men were engaged in blasting the overhanging rocks on No. 5 Contract, on the Zigzag, Lithgow Valley…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nevada, July 27.—R.H. Farquhar, Country Clerk and Union candidate for Clerk of the Supreme Court, was killed this morning in the Court-house by an explo[?]ion of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Araluen correspondent of the Braidwood Dispatch states that a frightful and fatal accident occurred at Upper Araluen, to a young man of the name of John…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →INTELLIGENCE by telegram from the Heads was received yesterday morning that a bout was capsized on Sunday evening off South Reef, and that five persons were drowned…
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