Serious Boating Fatality
ON Friday, January 3rd, about 4 p.m., Captain Grant, master of the dredge Fitzroy, accompanied by his son Adam, a lad of 10 12 years, Harry…
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The Recent Boating Accident. To the Editor
SIR,--Being one of the party at S.W. Rocks on Friday last when Masters Harry McDonald and Adam Grant landed after their perilous swim of about two miles,…
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On Saturday night, Alfred Willis was killed and John Brodie was seriously injured as the result of a tram accident…
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ON MONDAY, the 27th January, Gilbert Supple, aged 10 years, was drowned while crossing the river, near Cunderang, Upper Macleay. The stream…
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The tender of the mountain express train was derailed at Lawson, on the Blue Mountains, yesterday. The permanent way was damaged extensively…
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THE North Coast S.N. Company's steamer Tomki met with a rather serious accident off the coast early on Sunday morning. She left the Richmond River for Sydney on…
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Two brothers, named Francis and Charles Ridge, aged 11 and 9 years respectively, were drowned while bathing in a waterhole at Leichhardt…
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During a fog at Brussels a serious collision between two trains took place. Twenty-eight of the passengers were badly injured…
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OUR Sydney correspondent on Friday last wired that a terrible accident, causing the loss of some 40 lives, occurred in the Brisbane River on…
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Dr. McDonagh, the well-known physician, met with a serious accident at the Royal Hotel, George-street, Sydney. By some means he was…
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A boy named Darby went out shooting sparrows on Sunday last at Woodville, South Australia. His little two-year-old sister was standing by…
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By a fire at the Kattowitz Colliery, Silesia, seventy-one lives were lost. One of the most interesting exhibits at the Manning Show, held last…
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The express train running between London and Leeds was derailed on Saturday last. Two persons were killed and five injured…
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The Impressionist Critic (viewing the picture): "Oh, what a lovely effect that is in the centre of the canvas !" The Painter(not an impressionist):…
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An explosion of fire-damp at the Burner Colliery, Greymouth, New Zealand, completely wrecked the mine. Sixty miners are entombed. Gas and steam are…
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OUR Unkya correspondent writes :-- The Bellinger Coach had quite a miraculous escape from total destruction on Wednesday night last…
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A SAD accident, involving the loss of one life, took place at Nambucca Heads yesterday. A party consisting of John Olsen, Charles Cameron, Laban Davis…
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On Sunday night at the Grand Junction crossing of the main north railway line, South Australia, a train crashed into a spring cart and smashed…
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The barque Firth of Solway collided with an unknown steamer at Greenock and sank immediately. Fifteen of the ship's company were drowned. The…
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Mr. Robort Jones, M.L.A. for Mudgee, had two of his ribs broken owing to the capsizing of a cart in which he was seated…
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