Mining Accident
YESTERDAY a painful mishap occurred to a miner, named William Moon, at Bulli Colliery. A piece of stone falling from above canted two props, which fell across…
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Accidents, 1881
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Fatal Accident
ON Sunday a party of men went out boating on the Nepean River, at Penrith, and while there decided to have a swim. A young man named Andrew Paul, one of…
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LONDON, April 27.—A terrible accident has occurred on board the warship Manus, at Wilholmshaven, While the artillery were practising a shell burst, and 26…
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AUCKLAND, Saturday morning.—The Union Company's steamship Tararna, 828 tons, Captain F. C. Garrard, while on the voyage from Dunedin to Melbourne,…
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ABOUT 11 o'clock last night a butcher, named James Palmer, residing at Islington, met with a nasty accident on the Honeysuckle Point road. When opposite…
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A MAN named Chas. Hardy, employed at Laing and Wylie's saw mills, had his left hand severely cut by a circular saw yesterday. He was taken to Dr. Knaggs'…
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THE adjourned inquest of the body of Abraham kittson, who was killed by a fall of coal in Browns' Duckenfield Colliery, was held by the District Coroner at…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—The Steamer lady Brown ran aground above Hamilton yesterday afternoon, and cracked one plate forward. She returned to town this…
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ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—A telegram was received by the Marine Board yesterday afternoon announcing that the schooner Experiment capsized at sea off the Althorpe's at 7 a m…
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ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—A fatal accident occurred on board the Orient Company's steamship Potosi while she was discharging cargo yesterday, resulting in the death…
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YESTERDAY afternoon a youth named Christopher Keenan, residing at Stockton, fractured his arm by falling over a fence. It is not known exactly how the mishap…
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On Saturday afternoon an accident of a very melancholy nature (the Hobart Mercury reports) occurred on the river Derwent, which resulted in the death of three persons by…
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ON Saturday morning a coal trimmer named Thomas Rose was removed to the hospital, suffering from a severe fracture of the right leg immediately above the…
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ABOUT half-past 3 yesterday afternoon an alarm was raised that a man was drowning near the barque Margaret Heald, lying at the Stockton wharf discharging…
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WHAT appears to have been a woeful accident, ending in the instantaneous death of a well-known resident of Darlington, occurred on Tuesday last, at Maison Dieu,…
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ACCORDING to some interesting statistics, which are published in the Railroad Gazette, of New York, last year has been an unusually unfortunate one as…
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AT Scott's Albion Hotel, Watt-street, yesterday afternoon, the District Coroner (Mr. Charles Boscawen Ranclaud) held in inquest on the body of Thomas Young…
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YESTERDAY a boy named Jackson, living in Kenrick street, had the points of four cut off by a passing train going to the Borehole pit. He and young…
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YESTERDAY afternoon a serious accident befel Mr.Thomas Bond, second engineer of the steamer Ghyro. By some means he slipped and fell down the engine room,…
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THE following is the official report on an enquiry held by the Local Marine Board into the circumstances attending a collision between the steam-tug Leo,…
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