Nearly an Accident
The local paper reports that what might have been a fatal accident occurred upon the Wagga railway bridge on the 23rd inst. It appears that a railway employe borrowed a trolley from one of…
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Lamp Accident
An accident that might have been attended with very serious results happened at St. Patrick’s Church on Sunday last. It appears that just after evening service…
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A shocking accident, resulting in the loss of three lives, occurred on the New River, near Invercargill, New Zealand, on the 19th March. The Otago Daily Times reports that a party,…
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The Fiji Argus of March 3 states that a fatal accident is reported to have occurred recently at Vita Levu Bay. A young man who was residing upon the plantation of Mr…
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The Bendigo Independent furnishes the following particulars of a fatal railway accident on Good Friday :—“ A shocking accident occurred yesterday morning on the railway…
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An accident, attended with very serious results, occurred on Monday, in the vicinity of Studley-park, to Messrs. Robertson and Wagner's coach from Lilydale to Melbourne, by…
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A dreadful accident, which, it is believed, must have a fatal termination, happened on Easter Monday at the Queenscliff Artillery Encampment, through the permature bursting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dreadful Mining Accident
The Ballarat correspondent of the Evening Mail reports that a miner named George Pasco, working as braceman at the Llanberries claim, at the whim shaft of Fletcher and party, met…
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A shocking fatal accident occurred on the Sydney suburban railway line on Monday. A Mrs. Poole, the wife of a draper carrying on business in George-street, was returning home to…
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Shortly after midnight on Friday morning the brig Sea Nymph, 289 tons, was run into by the steamer Arawata, outward bound for New Zealand. The collision took place in the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Mining Accident at Cunning-ham’s Creek
A shocking mining accident happened last week at Watson’s Reef (the old Marshal M’Mahon), Cuuningham Creek, when three men, William Anthony, Thomas Hopkins, and…
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A frightful accident happened on the railway line on Friday morning (says the Ballarat Courier) near the foot of the Warrenheip incline, by which an elderly man named David Lowe…
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Two barrels of a breechloader without the stock were taken to Mr. Otto Martin's shop in Wangaratta a few days since by a young man who has recently arrived in the town as an…
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The Brisbane Courier says :—A most melancholy story comes to us from Jimboombab concerning the accident which happened on the Logan River, between M’Lean’s and the Logan…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Appalling Railway Accident. Two Hundred Persons Killed. [Br Submarine Cable.] London, July 14
A terrible railway accident has occurred on the railway between Moscow and Kursk. The train which met with the disaster was crowded with passengers, and 200 persons were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accident to the Bishop of Newcastle
The Maitland Mercury reports that a few days since the Bishop of Newcastle, Mrs. Peareson, and the groom were driving from Tomago towards Hexham, and while taking a sharp…
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DIGITATED stockings, or stockings having a separate compartment for each too, is the latest feminine foolishness in London. It's a terribly inconvenient whim, as the girl has to…
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A Quebec despatch, dated May 20, states that the schooner President, which arrived at that port on that evening, had on board the captain and six of the crew of the ill-fated…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Tramway Accident in Sydney
A tram collision occurred in Sydney on Friday morning at the intersection of Liverpool and Elizabeth streets. The tram which left Randwick at 8 o’clock had reached the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Serious Accident on the Murrumbidgee
A serious accident occurred on the 10th inst. on the Murrumbidgee, a few miles from Hay. The steamer Emily Jane, Captain Bruzza, was lying moored to the bank with her dingy along…
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