A Fatal Canoe Accident
The Louth Liberal states that on Sunday week last information was given to the police at Louth that a man had been drowned at Dunlop Station. The deceased, a man named…
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Fatal Railway Accident
A dreadful railway accident occurred at Muckleford Creek, on the Maldon line, Victoria, on Sunday, whereby a young man named Gustave Dunn was killed. With others he…
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The Otago Daily Times reports that on the 9th March an accident, which resulted latally, occurred at Port Chalmers, when Mr. John Reid, a timber-measurer in the employ of…
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On Friday last, at the Redfern railway station, a disaster was caused by the failure of a Westinghouse brake to act on an incoming train, which came into violent contact with…
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There is every reason to believe that some weeks since an accident of a rather serious nature occurred at a little distance below Narandera-we believe at the Yanko siding…
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Two painful accidents happened to the Rev. G. Soares during his last trip to Tumbarumba, Whi[?]et driving out to Glenroy. (writes the Adelong [?]pondent of the Gu[?]daga Times)…
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The Gundagai Times reports that an inquest was held on Monday by Mr. Weekes on the death of Jeremiah O'Connor, a baker in the employ of Mr. P. Tiernan, Five-mile Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →European Telegrams. [By Submarine Cable.] Disastrous Collision in the Atlantic.—terrible Loss of Life. London, May 7
Definite information has now been received regarding the fate of the State line steamship State of Florida, whose boats were picked up a few days ago. The steamer when in…
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A singular and serious accident is reported (in the Co[?]a Free Press) to have happened to a Mr. Robert Grant, of Back Creek. He was e[?]gaged at his sawmill cutting some limber,…
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With reference to recent Moulamein coach accident, the passenger, Mr. Harvey Murray, a public school inspector, who had his ankle dislocated by the coach falling on…
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On Saturday morning an accident occurred the goods and passenger train which left Auckland at 20 minutes past 6 a.m. for Waikato, which very nearly resulted in…
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A Brisbane telegram, dated the 30th ult., states:— "serious collision occurred about 3 o'clock this morning between the small steamer Taldors and the steamer Archer, both…
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A serious railway accident, involving loss of life, occurred yesterday evening on the London and South-Western railway, in close proximity to Salisbury. A passenger train ran off the…
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A young man named John Mantle, well-known as a pedestrian at Lithgow, was accidentally shot through the head on Monday last by another man named Jones, who, with…
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A fatal accident occurred at the Hose of Denmark Company’s mine, California Gully, Sandhurst, on .Monday. A young man named Charles Shaw proceeded to the magazine,…
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An accident which resulted in the death of fine mare, the property of Cobb and Co., happened to the Deniliquin and Hay coach on Friday night last a few miles from Deniliquin…
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A serious coach accident occurred on Saturday night to Cobb and Co.'s mail coach between Young and Murrumburrah. When near Wombat, about half-way, the coach, which contained…
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The Vanguard, barque, Captain Shaw, from London to Brisbane, arrived at the latter port on Saturday. She reports having run into the Farningham, barque, from Dunedin to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →European Telegrams. [By Submarine Cable.] Appalling Railway Accident in England.—twenty Persons Killed and Thirty Injured. London, July 17
An appalling railway accident occurred last night in the North of England. An express train was travelling from Manchester to Sheffield, when an axle of one of the carriages…
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A railway accident, involving great loss of life, occurred to-day in the state of Ohio. A passenger train left the rails and fell over an embankment into a river, drowning 12…
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