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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
211 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 11
THE Suez mail has arrived at Albany, and brings news down to December 21st, containing interesting particulars of the surrender of Plevna…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN accident happened to a cart belonging to Mr. Moore, cordial manufacturer, yesterday, in Watt-street. The cart, in which was a man and boy, was in the act of turning the corner…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A frightful collision occurred near Penrith, last night, between two goods trains, which were travelling at the rate of thirty or forty miles an hour. Three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FURTHER particulars to those published in our ample telegram of yesterday we now extract from the Evening News. Their reporter had an interview with one of the injured men in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A YOUNG fellow named William Warboys received a severe wound in the arm yesterday, through being caught between two skips. The thickest part of the muscles were penetrated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE inquest at Penrith resulted in the committal of George Perdue, guard of the special train, for manslaughter; the jury adding a rider to the effect that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE news of this shocking catastrophe, furnishes a striking commentary on our late leader, on Mr. SUTHERLAND'S action in sending home for a new traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Sunday a little girl, a daughter of Mr. Searle, of the Glebe, when passing by a horse, which was grazing near, got kicked heavily, fracturing her collar bone.—On…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE drought has broken up, and rain is general. It is now raining heavily in Sydney. The inquest on the second Penrith…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE rain in Sydney and suburbs did immense damage yesterday and last night. The losses are believed to amount to thousands of pounds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE inquest on the murder at Stroud, ended in an open verdict of wilful murder. A man has been arrested on suspicion. The mail driver narrowly escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN accident took place on Thursday last, at the Waratah Company's Colliery, at Charlestown, by which the driving-wheel of the winding-engine was broken. This has caused the pit to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DURING the performance at the theatre last night, an accident occurred to a lad named Charles Faning. It appears that during the harlequinade the lad came into contact with an umbrella…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two young ladies, daughters of Captain O'Sullivan, had a narrow escape from drowning yesterday afternoon. While bathing on the beach, at the "ladies' bathing place," the younger of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Wednesday, about 4 o'clock, a lad named Robert Stafford, seven years of age, was bathing near Dibbs's Wharf, Miller's Point, when on taking a dive he was" struck by something on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN accident occurred yesterday afternoon, in Hunter-street, opposite the Court-house. As Mr. Field's butcher's cart was proceeding to the shop in Watt-street, laden with meat from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following is the decision of the Board in the above matter:—Local Marine Board held an inquiry into the circumstances attending a collision which occurred between the tugs Leo and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YESTERDAY afternoon, a driver of a cab to Hamilton was thrown from his seat through his horse taking fright from a flash of lightning. He was severely shaken, but otherwise uninjured. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ABOUT 11 o'clock yesterday morning, being then nearly high water, the ship Sarah Nicholson started from No. 2 bu[?]y in the Horsesho[?], in tow of the steam-tug Goolwa, and in charge of Pilot Newton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A young man named M'Innes was drowned while crossing the river last evening. The body was recovered to-day…
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