The Accident to Mr. Hugh Taylor. M.P.
PARRAMATTA, Tuesday.—Mr. Hugh Taylor, M.P., has recovered consciousness, but he is still in a precarious state…
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Accidents, 1885
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TELEGRAMS. Fatal Accident at Morpeth
MORPETH, Wednesday.—Mr. Abraham Keating, son of Alderman John Keating, of this town, was fatally crushed by the falling of a large case of furniture on him…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Four men were returning from the wharf labourer's picnic yesterday, in a sailing boat, which upset off Balls' Head, in the deepest part of the harbour. Wm. Berkshire, Peter Martin and…
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YESTERDAY, at the Police Court, Peter Olsen (W.P. constable at Newcastle) and Walter Barry (mounted trooper, stationed at Muswellbrook) were charged with…
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ROBERT STBAKER, 27, while riding on a trolly at new Burwood colliery on the 15th inst., accidentally slipped and fractured his thigh bone. William Adams, 30, while firing a fuse for blasting purposes…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—An iron bolt fell from the top of the Grafton wharf to-day, on the head of a man named Joseph Saunders, killing him on the spot…
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HAY, Friday.—A man named Crabtree has been cut to pieces on the railway at Hay Junction…
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WEST MAITLAND, Sunday.—Great regret was expressed throughout the district when it was learned to-day that young William Albert Walker, son of the respected…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. A. G. Taylor, M.L.A., has had a narrow escape from a serious accident. While seated in a cab the horse ran away, and the cab was…
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YESTERDAY afternoon Mr. S. Chapman, J.P., District Coroner, held a magisterial enquiry at the Albion Hotel, touching the death of Andrew Holmes, a Swedish seaman belonging to the American…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday.—The men who remained with the boat which capsized near Port Pirie on Friday, righted her when the tide rose, and reached Port Pirie to-day…
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LAST evening, in Darby-street, a vehicle collision occurred opposite Mr. A. F. Moore's cordial manufactory, between No. 20 omnibus and one of Redman's cordial carts. The licensed vehicle was coming…
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YESTERDAY afternoon a serious accident befel a lad named Whelam, son of Mr. Whelam, blacksmith, of Market Square. The latter was leading a pony to the Sandhills, near Shepherd's Hill, and allowed the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Edward Wehlow, son of Mr. Edward Wehlow, of the Woolpack Inn, Parramatta, a guard on the Illawarra railway, fell from the footboard, and the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The ship, British Army, from Liverpool, has arrived. During the voyage, a stowaway fell from the main rigging, and was drowned…
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UP till noon yesterday a painful feeling was abroad throughout the the city to the effect that Mr. James Dart, solicitor, with a party of friends, had come to grief, and…
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AN accident occurred at Lawson station on the Western line on Saturday, when two engines collided while shunting, and three persons were injured. A dense fog has…
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IN reference to the condition of the passengers who were in the railway disaster near Cootamundra, the special reporter of the "Sydney Daily Telegraph" says:—…
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A SERIOUS accident occurred yesterday afternoon in Blane-street, torough two horses running away with a coach attached. They were standing in front of Tredennick's coach factory, when they suddenly…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A serious collision occurred on Saturday afternoon in the Harbour. The steamer Glaucus was rounding Bradley's Head, bound for Newcastle,…
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