Distressing Accident
AN accident occurred on Tuesday evening, at about half-past eight o'clock, to a boy named Rees Price. The particulars of the sad affair are thus related by Mr. Henry Johnson, with…
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Accidents, 1876
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Death by Drowning
YESTERDAY afternoon, the District Coroner F. J. Shaw, Esq., J.P., and a jury of twelve, held an inquest at the Naval Brigade Hotel, Watt-street, touching the death of John Prelanx, a seaman of the barque…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. Late Accident on the Wallsend Railway. (To the Editor of the Herald & Advocate.)
Sir,—I observed in the Evening News of Wednesday a report of the accident in which it was stated that the train of coal waggons ran back from the engine all the way to…
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A SAD event took place last night affording a deplorable instance of the necessity that exists for the better lighting of the seamers' wharf. Just as the steamer Morpeth was heaving for Sydney, at a…
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A collision occurred on Thursday night last tear the Sydney Heads between the Kemba (s) on her usual passage from Sydney of Newcastle, and a brig, the name of which has not transpired…
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