Terrible Accident at a Sawmill
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at the sawmills of Mr. J. Robertson, Geelong, on Thursday afternoon, An old employee named Joseph Barfeet was standing near…
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Accidents, 1882
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Lamentable Accident
A LAMENTABLE accident occurred on the racecourse at West Maitland, yesterday. During the run for the Prince of Wales Stakes,—the track being very slippy and…
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A TERRIBLE accident has occurred at the breakwater works at Clarence Heads. It seems that while a stone was being hoisted out of the quarry by one of the chains, a…
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YESTERDAY a painful accident befel Sergeant Thompson, of the Paterson, at the Maitland Races. While near the saddling paddock one of the nags let out and kicked him…
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WE were pleased to hear, upon inquiry yesterday, that the accident to young Kenny, who fell off Lady Isabel in a race on Wednesday, was not of so serious a…
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ON Saturday evening a young child of Mr. Scott, living at Stockton, had his right hand badly crushed. The lad, with some other children, was playing on board a new…
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YESTERDAY morning a miner in New Lambton Pit, named John Faulds, aged fifty years, met with a dangerous accident through a fall of coal. A mass, weighing…
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MR. SHERLOCK, of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, while pruning some vines at his residence, Waratah, cut himself severely across the wrist, so much so, that…
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Two very sad cases of drowning occurred during the week, at Cootamundra. The wife of Matthew Hamilton, of Illabo, was drowned in a dam half a mile from the…
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ON Monday evening between 7 and 8 p.m., Mr. Hugh W. L. Holt (railway station-master, Waratah), after having indulged in a swim, was returning from the breaker…
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MR. J. H. HUBBARD's valuable trotting horse "Captain" met with a serious and extraordinary mishap at the Yacht. Club Hotel stable yards a few nights ago…
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A SAD accident occurred at the Marong races (Victoria), on Wednesday. For the Maiden Stakes, the first race, 11 started. As the horses passed the stand the first time in a…
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YESTERDAY morning another severe caution to daring surf-bathers was administered at "the bar," near to a spot where the s.s. City of Newcastle was wrecked. Among…
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A FAVOURITE pony, belonging to Mr. John Williams, of the Miners' Exchange Hotel, was run over by the A.A. Company's coal train on Friday afternoon. After the train…
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MELBOUNE, Friday.—A distressing occurrence happened at Point Lonsdale to-day, by which three fishermen lost their lives. At about noon a number of…
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DURING Saturday might a serious accident happened to an old man, named Robinson, aged sixty-seven, stopping at Mrs. Charlton's boarding-house, King-street…
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ON Sunday forenoon seven persons, including John Shaw and Thomas O'Donnell, both married men with families, were pulling about the river at Maitland in the…
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ON Monday afternoon (says the Illawarra Mercury) a miner, named D. T. O'Brien, working in the Mount Keira Colliery, received severe injuries, and narrowly…
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A TELEGRAM in the koho states that five young men, named Burton, Love, Smith, Rule, and Harper wont driving in a coach drawn by four horses, two of which had just…
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THE Brisbane Observer records the death by drowning of three little follows in Victoria Park, near the Brisbane Hospital. Some workmen, passing on their way home,…
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