Accidents and Offences
SYDNEY, Friday.—A man named Mark Kenny, while asleep alongside his camp fire, has been burnt to death. The inquest on the body of the…
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Accidents, 1883
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Accident at Murrurundi
MURRURUNDI, Thursday.—A man named William Ingram had his right leg frightfully crushed at Murrurundi, this evening, by a loaded waggon passing over it. He…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Gregorini Guiseppe, a stone cutter, fell dead to-day in the street. An engine on the Camden tramway…
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ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—A collision occurred yesterday morning at Plympton between the workmen's train, which left Adelaide at 6.55 a.m., and the goods train…
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LONDON, July 5.—The King of Saxony met with an accident whilst ascending a lift in a factory. One of his suite was killed…
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DURING the last session of Parliament, the injustice done to employees on the Government railways, who happen to belong to Sick and Accident Clubs and other…
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A SHOCKING accident happened at the Pentridge Stockade, Melbourne (says the Herald), to a prisoner employed in the carpenters' shop, named Denis Gauner,…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The body of Richard Noyes, a shearers' cook, has been found in a creek at Ararat, Victoria, with his skull fractured. He had evidently been…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A wood cart, driven by a man named M'Kenzie, was knocked over by a train at Homebush, the horse being killed, and the driver much injured…
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A CORRESPONDENT writes:—The late accident at Wallsend Colliery, by which David Jones and mate were so seriously injured, and by which Jones' death was…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A young man, named John Hayes, has committed suicide yesterday by throwing himself in front of a railway train…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An elderly man, named Mullane, has poisoned himself at Grafton with a dose of strychnine. A swagman, supposed to be named…
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MAITLAND, Tuesday.—A terrible accident happened this afternoon at the Maitland Waterworks, on the Oakhampton Road. It appears that blasting operations were…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Kate Stephens, a young girl, has been burnt to death at Bathurst…
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LONDON, July 11.—The Admiralty Board, after inquiry, has decided that the ship British Commerce was to blame for the late collision with the ship County of Aberdeen,…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A horrible murder is reported from Perth (W. A.). The wife of a pearl diver has been found with her head severed from her body…
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LONDON, July 12.—The Admiralty have held an inquiry into the late collision between the ships Waitara and Hurunui. They have decided that the captain and…
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A SAD and fatal accident occurred at Minmi yesterday, by which a young man named Joseph Wilson lost his life. It appears he was driving a team of horses, laden with iron bars, by the side of a deep…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Sarah Robinson, aged 84, has been burnt to death in a furniture room at Camperdown. The organ of St. Peter's Anglican…
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During the passage of the steamship Sorata from Melbourne to Adelaide a horrible accident occurred, resulting in the loss one man and the mutilation of two others. As the vessel was…
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