Great Fire in Melbourne. Loss of £80,000.—Five Firemen Injured
A disastrous fire, which destroyed property roughly valued at about £80,000, occurred shortly before half-past 4 on Thursday morning. At that time smoke…
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Accidents with Cream Separators
A peculiar accident, which might been attended with fatal results, on Tuesday at Woodstock farm, Milton, to a daughter of Mr. James M. Lelland…
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A serious accident occurred at the Mt. Kembla colhery yesterday morning to a miner named Joseph Sheard. The unfortunate fellow was "holing" a piece of…
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A young man named Murphy, a tailor employed at Messrs. Lance and Co,'s, had a very narrow escape from drowning yesterday morning. He was bathing in…
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A DISASTROUS collision at sea, resulting in the sinking of a ship and the loss of 22 lives, is reported by Captain Nicol, of the ship Agnes Oswald, which reached…
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MR. PHILLIP DEITZ, an old resident of Kiama, met with a fatal accident at Gerringong on Saturday last. From the evidence given at the inquest. It appears he…
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A PECULIARLY distressing accident, from which fatal results are dreaded, occurred an Liverpool, railway station early on Saturday morning. The victim is a…
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On Monday afternoon a shocking boating accident happened at Terara Wharf, whereby three young girls were drowned and two others were rescued with difficulty…
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ONE of those terribly sad disasters the full significance of which is only brought home to us by an intimate acquaintance with the victims or the near proximity of danger…
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As inquest was hell at the Council Chambers, Terrura, on the bodies of the three girls Maud Griffiths, Winifred Griffiths, and Alice Mulley, drowned…
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LINES suggested by the untimely death by drowning at Terrara, Shoalhaven, of the Misses Winifred and Maud Griffiths and Alice Mulley, on the evening of March 16,…
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It will be observed elsewhere in this issue that in our notice last Tuesday of the fatal accident at Bulli the Natural Coke-mine was mentioned in error as being the scene…
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SIR,—In your issue of to-day you give an account of the fatal accident which occurred at the Illawarra Coal Company's works at Austinmer ; but your account is…
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Mr. Herbert Herd, public school teacher at Ramorini, and a son of Mr. Andrew Herd, painter, of Wollongong, was drowned at Grafton on Sunday…
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A shocking occurrence (reports the Herald), happened on the railway line about midnight on Friday, the victims being a girl named Agnes Louisa Martin,…
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Our readers will recollect the accident at the crossing of he Corrimal Comapany's railway over the public road at Corrimal, which took place on the 28th November…
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An accident of a very serious character happened late on Saturday night to Mr. A. M. Jenkins when riding towards his home at Berkeley. Jenkins had been in town…
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LONDON, Monday night,—Further details have been received with respect to the disastrous collision which occurred yesterday between two excursion trains…
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An accident of a terrible nature occurred on the Lake on Saturday last about noon, by which a young man named James Chalmers lost his life. Chalmers and a…
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Yesterday morning we received the following telegram from our Sydney agents:— "The steamer Gambier was run down…
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