Painful Accident on the Railway
As the down mail train from Tamworth was approaching the Murrurundi Station on Saturday last, an accident of a very painful nature befel the head porter, a man named…
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Accidents, 1879
235 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 12
The Fatal Boat Accident
YESTERDAY the police still continued their search on the North Beach for the bodies of the unfortunate men who lost their lives on Saturday last, but without avail. A boat…
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WE are pleased to observe that the members of the Newcastle Amateur Dramatic Society —with that promptitude end kindness which has so honourably distinguished the club…
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YESTERDAY afternoon an accident of a rather serious nature befel the eldest son of his Worship the Mayor (G. Wallace, Esq.). It appears that he, in company of three or four…
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A VERY serious accident, says the E. News, happened to a young man, at Back Creek, named Thomas, son of Mr. Thomas, of Messrs Birley and Thomas, machine owners,…
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What is almost certain to prove a fatal accident occurred yesterday morning about 6 o'clock, to a woman named Mrs. West, who is mother of a large family, and resides at…
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Another of these terrible mining disasters which have of late years given such unhappy notoriety to the Rhondda Valley district occurred late…
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ON Friday, a named Knight was riding out to the Lake, and when crossing a bridge the horse fell, breaking the right arm of its rider. Knight managed to get on the animal…
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AN inquest was held on Saturday last, before the District Coroner and a jury of twelve, at the Naval Brigade Hotel, into the cause of the death of one Charlotte West,…
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AN accident happened in the Lambton Colliery on Monday morning, whereby two men named John Weary and Joseph Tranter sustained very serious…
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AN inquest was held yesterday, at the Criterion Hotel, into the cause of the death of a man named John Thompson, part of whoso remains was found on the North…
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YESTERDAY morning, Mr. H. D. Portus, agent for the Manning River and Newcastle Steamship Companies, received a telegram from the head office in Sydney to the effect…
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YET another melancholy evidence of the fate which befel the unfortunate men who were lost in The Spy, has come to light. Yesterday afternoon three boys, one a son of…
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YESTERDAY morning Mr. Sub-Inspector Thorpe received a telegram from the Coroner at Brisbane Water, forwarded from the telegraph station a Coor[?]nbong, which is the…
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THE most serious steamboat collision that has taken place on our coast happened last night between the Melbourne Steam Company's steamer…
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IN another column appears a very touching and straightforward letter from a relative of one of the unfortunate men who perished in the late fatal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. the Late Fatal Boat Accident. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—By your issue of to-day observed the inquest on the remains of J. Thompson, who was one of the men who came to an untimely end by meeting a watery grave whilst outside…
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THE circumstances attending the late fatal collision between the steamers Barrabool and Bonnle Dundee have been the topic of public comment…
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THE body of the lady which was washed ashore at Catherine Hill Bay, and was thought to be that of Miss Brown, has been identified as that of Mrs. Dugdale, of the…
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THE City Coroner resumed his inquiry as to the cause of the collision between the steamships Barrabool and Bonnie D[?]ndee, and concerning the death of…
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