Boating Fatality in Sydney Harbor
As notified in our telegrams last week, a terrible boating accident happened in Sydney Harbor on Boxing Day. It appears that a large party of friends had hired two…
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Fatal Railway Accident
A fatal railway accident took place on the Murrumburrah and Blaney railway, near Cowra. The rails were displaced from the sleepers. The engine and two…
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A disastrous explosion of dynamite has taken place in New York. While some workmen were engaged in thawing frozen dynamite cartridges before a fire in a tunnel…
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Betsy Smith, aged 10, was accidentally killed on the steamer Woolwich on Friday last, her head being crushed between the steamer and a…
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On Friday morning last as Capt. Murray and his assistants were going in the pilot boat to assist the "Banks Peninsula" to cross in, their boat…
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On Saturday morning Mr. John Thomas Mathers took his team out to draw in some timber for Mr. Donald McLennan, of Purfleet. After…
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A sad fatality occurred at Ezzy's Crossing, Gwydir River, on Saturday. A man, his wife, and three children…
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Achetti Bortolo, an Italian, was drowned whilst bathing in a tank near Wagga. A young man named George John…
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William King, a colored seaman on the barque Annie Stafford at Newcastle was knocked out of the rigging by the chief officer and killed…
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A passenger tram collided at Matadi, in the Congo territory, Africa, with a dynamite waggon, and a terrific explosion ensued. The cars…
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A man named Bell, sleeping in a tent at Lismore, was killed by a falling tree…
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George Holt, a boy 3 years old was knocked down by a lorry in Bank-street, last night and killed…
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Captain Harry Gollan, of the steamer Messenger, fell overboard from the steamer when lying at Woodburn on Saturday night, and…
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A train left the rails at Como yesterday, and three railway officials were slightly injured…
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Captain Crosby, of the schooner Enterprise, while on the way from Newcastle to Townsville, was washed overboard and drowned…
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BROKEN HILL, TUESDAY. — A fire took place last night in Brazil-street, whereby a six-roomed wood and iron house belonging to a widow named…
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AN Orange telegram states:—Another fatal accident took place at the Wentworth Proprietary Mine, Lucknow, on Saturday night, two men being killed…
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Now that the full details are to hand of the fire on board the New Zealand mail steamer Ruahine and the breakdown of the Ionic, there is no doubt…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mysterious Affair. Accident or Design. Sydney
The captain of the tug Hero, of Jervis Bay, picked up at Sydney Heads a varnished boat called Bluebell, which contained a lady’s black silk parasol, a…
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A railway employee named Barrie McGill, while on a trolly on the Southern railway, was accidentally killed…
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