Collision at Sea between a Steamer and a Ketch
Yesterday afternoon shortly after 3 o'clock, a collision between the ketch Kate and the Morpeth steamship, occurred abreast of the Hospital. The Morpeth had gone to sea in…
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Accidents, 1876
105 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 6
Curious Accident
On Saturday evening a curious accident happened at the Theatre Royal just after the doors were opened. In the crush that took place while the people…
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The dead body of a man, shockingly mutilated, was found a short distance from the east end of the south platform at the Malmesbury Railway Station, on…
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Two children, named Harry Arthur and Edith Jane Allbright, aged respectively five and three years, were accidentally poisoned at Woodside, South…
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DURING the late heavy weather Lake Macquarie has been in a very turbulent state, and vessels going in and out experienced a considerable amount of danger. The master of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegrams. Clarence District Flooded. Seven Persons Drowned. £150,000 Worth of Property Destroyed. Sydney. Tuesday night, 8.50 p.m. FLOODS
THERE has been a fearful flood in the Clarence River District. The water is five feet higher then was ever known before. The damages are estimated at hundreds of…
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The Co-operative Steam Tug Company sustained a loss yesterday morning, which will be felt, not only by the shareholders, but by the whole of the shipping community. We allude to the sinking of the steam…
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A very serious collision occurred this morning at six o'clock off Ca[?] Three Points. The Ellen Male[?]lm was from Melbourne to Newcastle and was on the port tack, close hauled,…
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Yesterday afternoon Mr. John Reid of this city, kindly handed us a copy of a telegram received by him from Melbourne, to the following effect:—"Steamer Queensland sunk by the Barrabool near…
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The Marine Board gave their decision to-day in the case of the collision between the steamer Bowen and the barque Malcolm. They decided that the collision…
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A PRELIMINARY INQUIRY was commenced on Monday last, into the circumstances attending the collision between the steam tag Southland and the screw steam-collier…
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THE half-past six o'clock passenger train last evening, from West Maitland, had an exceedingly narrow escape from collision with a coal train at the foot of the big hill, between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late Collision between the Waratah and Southland. Marine Board Decision
AT 10.30 a.m. on Saturday, the decision of the Marine Board, in the case of the collision between the Southland steam tug and the Waratah steam collier, was given. The members of…
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SIR,—t was with no little surprise that I read in to-day's Newcastle Pilot an Editorial notice, questioning the correctness and truthfulness of the "Alarming escape" of last Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?]Ate Narrow Escape From Collision. The Editor of Herald and Advocate
I have read to-day a letter from Mr. [?]on the narrow escape the Maitland [?] from coming into collision with a [?] at the Wallsend Junction on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late English Extracts. [Culled From Our Exchanges.] Three Men Drowned in a Pit
AT High Brooks Colliery Ashton, near Wigan belonging to the Garswood Coal Co., a shocking, accident occurred to three sinkers working in the shaft, which had been recently sunk to…
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ABOUT ten o'clock lost night, as an old man named John Wilson was crossing the railway-yard at Redfern, a locomotive, which was shunting some trucks, knocked him down,…
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AN inquest was held at the Great Northern Hotel, yesterday forenoon before F. J. Shaw, Esq., J.P., District Coroner, respecting the death of Ellen…
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A man named Robinson, employed as foreman the painters at the Redfern Railway [?]ion was crushed to death between [?] buffers of two railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision Between the Barques Australian Sovereign and Ann. Inquiry at Lyttleton. (Condensed from the Christchurch Press, 16th ult.)
AN inquiry was held at the Custom House, Lyttleton, yesterday, before A. Rose, Esq., Collector of Customs, and Captain F. D. Gibson, nautical assessor, into a collision…
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