Serious Artillery Accident
LONDON, Saturday.—A fatal accident took place yesterday during artillery practice which was being carried on at Shoeburyness. A shell prematurely exploded,…
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Accidents, 1885
511 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 26
Nasty Accident
ON Saturday evening an accident happened to a little boy, aged eight years, eldest son of Mr. George Lindsay, of the Crystal Palace Hotel. It appears that he was…
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The ketch Favorite, Erick Erickson master, put in to Barranjoey on Sunday. The captain reports that he left Sydney at 8.30 a.m. for Cape Hawke: that when about east of Little Reef a sea struck…
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GOSFORD, Sunday.—A fatal boating accident occurred at at Gosford Broadwater 6.30 on Sunday evening. Mr. J. B. Anderson, civil engineer to Mr. George Blunt,…
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A DISTRESSING boat accident occurred on February 14 in Invercargill harbour, by which three lives were lost. A pleasure boat (says the New Zealand Herald) was on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Departure of the Troops. the March Through the City the State of the Wharf. Affecting Scenes. the Governor Addresses the Troops. Words of Farewell From the Victorian Governor. the Precession Down the Harbour. a Terrible Omen. Sad and Fatal Collision
SYDNEY, Tuesday, 6 p.m.—At last the New South Wales legion of volunteers for the Soudan have left our shores, and nothing now remains but the bitter awakening…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday, 10 a:m.—The steamer Nemesis collided with the steamer [?] between the Heads yesterday. Mrs. Capel was killed, and Mrs. Cecil, wife of one…
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Three brothers, aged about 10, 8, and 6 years respectively, the sons of a sergeant of police named Jones, were drowned while sliding on a pool called…
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SYDNEY, Friday—Four tram accidents have occurred. A lad named John Osborne, aged fourteen, was knocked down while crossing…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A man named Geo Bazil, while walking on the railway near Moonbi is supposed to have laid down on the line to sleep. A goods train which…
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Mr. Dalley on Friday telegraphed as follows to Colonel Richardson:—"Will you inform Private Sessle that his three children are provided for by the…
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YESTERDAY morning, at about 11 o'clock, a case of drowning occurred at Redhead. A miner named John Steel was bathing in the breakers near the old smelting works at…
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AETER an interval of four months another terrible tram accident, which has resulted fatally, happened in Sydney on Friday. It appears that just before 10 o'clock a…
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The Graphic of January 24 says:—On Thursday night last week the Santa Clara, an American sailing ship, ran with great and destructive force…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—F. Phœbe fell overboard from the ship Hermann during the voyage from Hamburg to Sydney, and was drowned…
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YESTERDAY afternoon whilst three young men named respectively Messrs. Edward De Glorion, Alfred Boyd, and William Moy were out fishing they had a most…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The infant daughter of Sydney Oliver, of Pittwater, eleven months old, was found drowned in the creek…
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INFFORMATION reached Holyhead on January 17 that the London and North-western Railway Company's cargo steamer Admiral Moorsom,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An inquest on the bodies of the two females who were killed by the Nemeis-Iberia collision was resumed to-day and adjourned until…
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YESTERDAY evening a foreigner named Matthew Hampret was conveyed to the Hospital suffering from a fracture of the scull and concussion of the spine. It…
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