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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
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Another collision has happened in the harbour, and under circumstances, so far as can be judged from the few facts at present available, strikingly similar to those of the meeting of the Birksgate and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Toohey, the Western Plains mailman, was thrown from his horse and picked up unconscious…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Sunday morning a lucky escape happened at Mr. Bramble's newly-established butchering stores, Honeysuckle Point. One of Mr. S. Laurence's butcher's carts was passing, and the horse bolted at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Money.—On Friday last in one of the cuttings, on the Homebush to Newcastle railway, John Clogan, a navvy, was struck by a stone from a "shot," and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SUEZ, Monday.—The steamer Amalfie collided with the steamer Orange, in the Gulf of Aden. The latter was sunk…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Board suspended the certificate of Captain Foodie, of the steamer Mermaid, for three months, for colliding with the steamer Psyche in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The excitement caused by this terrible accident has now pretty well subsided, and the inquest being over and the verdict given, it remains to be seen what steps the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The son of Alex. Max well, six years, has been drowned in a well at Newtown. Alex. M'Gifford accidentally fell from the wharf…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Two goods trains collided at Rooty Hill to-day, and the traffic was blocked for some time. Several trucks were damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The Marine Board held an inquiry into the Lass o' Gowrie and Glaucus collision yesterday, and will give their decision on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PERTH, Friday.—From information just received it appears that the guard of the special goods train in the Rooty Hill Collision was a new chum, and did not really…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Saturday evening a carpenter, named James Smith, working on the Homebush-Waratah railway line, was drowned whilst bathing in Dora Creek. His wife resides…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—An accident occurred on board the Commodore, steamer, while returning from the boat race. No lives were [?]st, but Mr. Freer, while jumping…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A disastrous collision occurred on Christmas Day, fourteen miles from Eddystone Lighthouse, between the steamship Chelydra, coming from Japan, and the Norwegian barque Homestrand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday last a magisterial enquiry was held at Dora Creek by Mr. Samuel Chapman, J.P., upon the body of James Smith, carpenter, working on the Waratah and Homebush railway. The witnesses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A rule nisi for a new trial was granted to-day, re the collision between the Birksgate and the Barrabool…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LAST night a man named Thomas Smith, a labourer, was brought to the Hospital, supposed to be suffering from a compound fracture of the skull, caused by a heavy weight having fallen on him while…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT a special meeting of the Sydney Marine Board, held on Thursday, Stephen Ingham, master of the steamer Glaucus, appeared to answer a charge of default, to show cause why his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Brother Malachi, one of the Patrician Brothers, while bathing in the Murray, near Albury, with two others, got out ot his depth and was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The steamer Gleuochil, after leaving the Cape of Good Hope, collided with the whaler Eliza, near Bedford, through her not showing lights. The…
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