Rifle Accident
By the accidental discharge of a rifle at Scone shooting range, oh Saturday Sergeant Thrift was wounded (it is feared fatally) and Trooper Lonsdale was slightly injured…
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By the accidental discharge of a rifle at Scone shooting range, oh Saturday Sergeant Thrift was wounded (it is feared fatally) and Trooper Lonsdale was slightly injured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A marvellous escape from drowning is reported from Attunga. A man named Jas. Duggan, whilst employed slabbing a well, fell down a distance…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The inquest concerning the death of Harrison Lewin was concluded at Tamworth on Monday. Henry L. Larden, under romand…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An accident of a serious nature occurred on Saturday afternoon, at Scone, during rifle practice in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. C. O'Leary, of Lamb's Valley, received intimation that his son, Daniel Joseph, aged 25, died at Globe street Globe, on Thursday night from the effects of a fractured skull, received…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A sad fatal accident occurred on Saturday last, by which Mr. William Handcock, teamster, in the employ of Mr. Thorley, of Salisbury, met his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Duncan Gillies, Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, died somewhat suddenly on Saturday morning. The deceased gentleman…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A sad accident has to be reported From what we can gather, Mrs. M. Lahey, of Tia, was driving in a sulky with her daughter, when the sulky…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It was the time of the great blizzard of 1891. Jut below Gamborne, on the G.W.R., is a lofty viaduct, at that time a wooden structure, but lately rebuilt of stone…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four gentlemen while scaling Scawell, in Cumberland, England, fell from a cliff, 400 feet high. All were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WHILE riding into town from Yarraford on Tuesday afternoon Mr. D Higgins had the misfortune to be thrown from his horse, his back being severely injured in the fall. He was conveyed to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A SERIOUS railway accident occurred on Saturday night between Wentworth Falls and Lawson, when a passenger train ran into the end of a goods train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robert Donellon, aged 30, accidentally shot himself dead while out rabbit shooting at Hamilton, Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The night officer, porter, and guard have been suspended pending the result of the inquiry into the railway collision near Lawson…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE regret to hear that little Jack McCreadie was the victim of a painful accident on Wednesday afternoon. The little chap, from what we gather, was playing in the yard, in close proximity to a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It was the time of the great blizzard of 1891. Just below Camborne, on the G.W.R., is a lofty viaduct, at that time a wo[?]den structure, but lately rebuilt of stone…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A sad accident, which had a fatal termination, befel Sidney Spinks, a bright little lad of about nine years, on Wednesday. When proceeding…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A boy named Walter Cooper, was drowned in the Shoalhaven River yesterday, in the presence of his mother…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A miner named Charles Shaw was buried alive to-day, by a fall of earth at the Carimal colliery, Wollongong…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A young married woman named Elizabeth Baxter was decapitated at Williamstown railway station, Victoria, by a passing train…
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