Disastrous Collision at Sea.—25 Persons Drowned
LONDON, April 26.—A disastrous collision has occurred in the English Channel between the ships British Commerce (from London to Melbourne) and the County of…
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Accidents, 1883
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Accidents and Offences
SYDNEY, Friday.—A madman entered a saddler's shop at Bathurst, and threw a number of articles through a plate glass window. He defended himself with a knife,…
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LONDON, April 27.—The ship British Commerce, which sank in the English Channel at midnight on Tuesday, after being in collision with the County of…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—In the Albury police court, to-day, Thomas Hopgood, a horse-breaker, residing at Gerogery, was charged under warrant with the abduction of Louise…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A son of Mr. White of the Bathurst Free Press, dropped dead from epilepsy. The principal Woolloomooloo rioters…
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A VERY serious and painful accident befel Mr. George Barr, of Sydney, at the Northumberland Patent Brick Company's Works yesterday morning. Mr. G. Barr…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Several persons have been fined in sums amounting £24 for tinkettling at Blayney. A gardiner, named James Campbell,…
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The man drowned from the Coonanbara is said to be Jeremiah O'Malleyne. A lad aged 14, son of a selector at Moruya, has been crushed to death by a…
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THE wife of Mr. Angus M'Kinnon, of Chins chilla, whilst engaged in household duties had the misfortune, some ten days ago, to got a large splinter of hard wood (ironbark)…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A tradesman has been fined £1 for allowing his guttering to overflow on the pathway. Mr. Coates, of Botany, was stuck up and…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A family comprising husband, his wife, and four children were burnt to death in a house at Yackandandah, Victoria. [Particulars of which appear in…
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AN inquest was held on Monday at Sutton, near Yackandandan, on the bodies of Jean Baptiste Coupin, his wife, and four children, who were burned to death on Sunday…
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A SERIOUS omnibus accident happened near the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne, on Tuesday afternoon, by which some of the passengers—of whom there were nine…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Robert Wilson has been committed for trial at Wahgunyah, charged with coining silver money. Joshua Moxon has been sentenced to three…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—At the trial of Henry Murdoch, charged with the manslaughter of Richard Kearnes during as fight at Prospect, the jury were unable to…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A young woman named Harriett Pament, aged eighteen, has been committed for trial for the desertion of her female infant in a paddock, at…
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NEWS reached Newcastle on Saturday afternoon of a boat being missing, with three fishermen aboard, who were supposed to have been drowned. The rumour turned…
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ON Friday night last, as a man named John Morgan, in the employ of Mr. Witt, a publican, was driving a small steam drogher in the Myall Lakes, near a place…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A large fire in Sussex-street has totally destroyed seven galvanished iron buildings, occupied by Scolling Bros. and other commission agents…
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ON Monday last, owing to the absence of the District Coroner, Mr. C. B. Ranclaud, at an inquest at Islington, a magisterial inquiry was held at Overall's Belmont…
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