Saved from Drowning by Fish
THE Deniliquin correspondent of the Riverina Herald tells the following story:—"The subjoined information was given to me by a gentleman of undoubted veracity…
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18 stories in Illawarra's papers
Some Accidental Jokes
It has often been said that the best jokes are those which are made by accident, and this is certainly the case with proper names. Few intentional " bulls" have ever been…
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THE Riverine Herald, of the 4th mistake, gives the following particulars of the drowning of Mr. G. Ashwin, of Campbell's Island:— "Mr. Ashwin was married in…
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THE memory of John Sharpe, Esq., J. P., and his esteemed family, who removed from Kiama to the Richmond River about the year 1868 is still fresh and green…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Struggle with a Maniac. 'Do You Prefer Being Drowned to Being Shot?'
A STORY thrilling enough in its details to be woven into fiction has just come to us fresh from Fair Point Chautauqua Lake. On Saturday last, a father finely dressed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dreadful Colliery Accident
Another of those terrible mining disasters which have of late years given such unhappy notoriety to the Rhondda Valley district occurred late on the night of January 13, at Dinas Colliery. Dinas is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MISCELLANEOUS. Collision and Loss of Life at Sea
ANOTHER very painful coasting disaster has to be added to the already long black list The Barrabool (s), which arrived in Port Jackson yesterday morning from…
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IN accordance with an announcement in our Wednesday's issue, Messrs. S. J. Davison, J.P., W. C. Robertson, T. Norton, W. Fyfe, and S. Murtough, left Sydney in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MISCELLANEOUS. Death by Drowning
EARLY on Saturday morning last a child was drowned in Belmore Basin, under very melancholy circumstances. After a sojourn in sydney, the mother of the child, (Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Collision in the Channel
THE Royal Mail Company's steamship Severn, Captain J. Lawson, arrived at Southampton at noon on Friday from Hamburg, having on board five men saved from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident at the Great Southern Mine, Garden Gully
AN accident of rather an exciting nature occurred on the 6th instant (the Stawell Chronicle reports) at the Great Southern Mine, Garden Gully. In the morning a…
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A LAMENTABLE fatal accident (says the Courier) occurred, within a few miles of Yass last Saturday night. A young man named Duncan Macfarlane, son of Mr. G…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drowning of Two Young Girls
IT is seldom we are called upon to record so distressing and painful an occurrence as that which happened on Saturday afternoon, namely, the drowning of two young…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Instructions for Saving Drowning Persons by Swimming
1ST. When you approach a person drowning in the water assure him, in a loud voice, that he is safe. 2nd. Before jumping in to save him,…
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About 6 o'clock on Saturday afternoon last, the residents of Queanbeyan were startled by the intelligence that the body of Father M'Auliffe, the priest in charge of the Queanbeyan district, had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Accident on the Great Northern Line
THE Herald's Newcastle telegraphic correspondent on Tuesday last says:—The accident to the picnic train on the Great Northern Railway last night caused the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Saving Life from Drowning. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—As it has frequently occurred to me that much attention should be paid in this town to the "Directions for Saving Life from Drowning." issued by the Humane Society, I will take…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Railway Accident
The Parramatta railway station was, yesterday afternoon, the scene of one of the most sensational, though not the most serious, accidents that has yet occurred on any of the railway lines of the…
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