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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
363 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 19
YESTERDAY, about half-past 9 a.m., the barque Jessie Renwick, one of Messrs. J. and A. Brown's direct trades, arrived in port from London, with a general cargo, in charge of the chief officer, Mr. W. D. Smith…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A man named Douglas has hanged himself to a tree at Armidale. A man known as "Charley the German"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—John Dunn, proprietor of the New York Hotel, George-street, was fined £20 for harbouring a seaman belonging to the ship Halloween…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Rose Murray, daughter of a hotel-keeper at Orange, bas, accidentally poisoned herself by an overdose of laudanum, taken to relieve the pain of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday.âAn infant, aged sixteen months, belonging to Mr. Walker, of Parramatta, has been burnt to death. A son of Mr. Colebrook, Pyrmont, aged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Yesterday a girl named Rebecca Anderson met with a horrible mishap in the Red Cross Preserving Company's works, where she was employed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALBURY, Saturday.—A young man, named Frederick Knobel, has met with a terrible accident at Mungaberina. He fell in the fire while in a fainting fit, and was horribly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Saturday.—A case of infanticide has been brought to light at Ruschutter's Bay. Yesterday two boys, whilst walking along the beach, found the body…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Pickard, the jockey, has died suddenly at Melbourne. A number of bakers in Melbourne have been filed for not weighing their bread…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A van proprietor named Edward Smyrk, of the Glebe, has hung himself in his own stable. A verdict of "Manslaughter" has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, July 25.—Captain W. Webb, the renowned champion English swimmer, whilst swimming for a wager of 10,000 dollars to cross Niagara whirlpools, has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. Joseph Sylver, foreman stevedore, had both his legs crushed to-day by an iron girder, whilst discharging the ship Cynisca. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The Quarter Sessions opened yesterday. There are ninety cases for trial. The body of John Crompton, lately a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, July 25.—A fearful calamity, involving an immense loss of life, has occurred at Baltimore, a city of the United States, a city on the River Patapsco. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SOMEWHAT singular accident occurred to a train on the Great Eastern Railway, between the Tidal Basin and Canning Town Stations, on the afternoon of June 17th. Several carriages in the centre of a long…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The body of an man named Harrison, formerly in the New South Wales police force, has been found floating in the Richmond River, A verdict of msnslaughter has been returned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Your remarks on the above in your leader of Saturday, are, as a warning, very appropriate, and seeing that this is the second risk of the kind that has taken place in a comparatively short time, we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A number of Chinese have been summoned at the Water Police Court for gardening on Sunday. Mr. David Fraser, of Narrabri, has been killed by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—John Anderson, a shipwright at Pyrmont, fell from a stage whilst caulking a schooner, and was killed. Henry Jones, of the firm of Jones and Larkins,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In Thursday's issue (31st July) a report of the Wallsend miners' meeting says that Mr. Lonsdalo is 18s in arrears to the Union and Accident fund and several speakers connecting on the unmanly…
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