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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
211 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 11
SIR,—In your issue of yesterday I notice that in your usual readiness to co-operate in any good movement, you are prepared to receive subscriptions on behalf of the mother of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MELVNCHOLY accident (says the Riverina Herald) occurred at Corop on Thursday afternoon, by which two boys named James Dobell and John Clemens, aged twelve and thirteen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE (E. News) regret to learn that Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, Government Geological Surveyor, has been confined to his bedroom during the week. Whilst assisting to lower one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LAST Wednesday morning, a man named Charles Melene, a lighterman, and resident of Stockton, whilst taking in timber into his lighter from the barque South Esk, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TERRIBLE accident occurred on Saturday (says the Melbourne Age) at the claim of the Britannia Quartz Company, Ballart East, by which two miners, William Martin and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN inquest was held by the District Coroner (Mr. J. E. Bowden) on Friday, touching the death of two children, named respectively Jacob Morgan Cantwell, aged two years…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE learn (says the Illawarra Mercury) that Mr. A. De Flon, of the Coal Cliff Colliery Works, sustained an accident on Friday last, whereby one of his feet was bruised…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SAD accident is reported at Biarritz. Miss Gordon, who had passed the winter in Paris, was drowned while out on an excursion. She attempted,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Saturday morning a man named John Hall, a seaman of the steamship Macedon, accidentally fell from one of the yards of the vessel. He was taken up immediately, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A CONSULTATION of the medical staff of the hospital was held on Saturday morning on the case of the man Melcne, who, it will be remembered, had his arm injured through…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YESTERDAY morning, an occurrence took place in the harbour which very nearly proved fatal to at least one of the seven occupants of a boat that left the steamers' wharf to board…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Bathurst Free Press states that a fatal accident, arising from a very simple cause, occurred at O'Connell's Plains on the 30th September. On that day Mr. Robert Bellamy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN inquest was held at Anvil Creek, yesterday (Monday), by Mr. Pearse, Coroner for Maitland, and a jury of twelve, concerning the death of a little boy thirteen months old,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LAST evening we were informed of an accident that took place to the ordinary mail train just as it was approaching the Willow Tree, on Saturday last. It appears that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE beg to acknowledge with thanks receipt of the sum of £2 5s. from Mr. S. L. Laing, being a donation from the Ironclad Cricket Club, in aid of the widowed mother of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LAST evening, shortly after five o'clock, the distressing news reached Newcastle that a child had been accidentally killed by one of the coal or ballast trains traversing the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN inquiry was held yesterday, at the Lasso' Gowrie Hotel, Wickham, before Mr. T. W. Pearse, J.P., coroner for the Maitland district, and a jury of twelve, touching the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No sooner is the inquest on the poor lad Hamill concluded, than another, equally distressing accident has to be recorded. We, yesterday received a telegram from our…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YESTERDAY afternoon one of the Alnwick coal waggons, while being shunted along the coal siding at the wharf, by some means got off the line. An attempt to pull it on to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE many friends in Newcastle of genial George Thornton, of Sydney, will be pleased to read the following account of his bravery, taken from the E. News:—The Hon. George…
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