Fatality at Fassifern
A FATALITY, the second that has occurred within a short period, took place at the Northumberland Land and Coal Company coal mine at Fassifern on Monday evening…
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Accidents, 1888
256 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 13
Serious Accident at the Glebe
YESTERDAY morning a serious accident happened at the Glebe colliery to a miner named John Grey. It appears he and his mate were knocking out some sets of cross…
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A SHOCKING ice accident occurred on Sunday, March 4, in Wirral, Cheshire, England, whereby the four sons of George Day, a gamekeeper in the service of Mr. Banner, of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victoria. Melbourne, Saturday. Fatal Accident
A boy, name unknown, was crushed under a lift at M'Kenzie and Co.'s mills, in Bond-street this morning. ROBBERY…
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CONCERNING the death of an old Maori named Hapi Moko, a correspondent writes to the Southland News, giving the following particulars of a…
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THE late Mr. John Stuart Edwards, who died on the 18th instant from the effects of a gunshot wound on the left hip, was a partner in the firm of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Collision and Loss of Life in the English Channel
A VERY serious collision, with loss of life, occurred off Dungeness during a dense fog, on the evening of March 9, between the City of Corinth, a full-rigged ship, and the Tasmania,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Accident on the Line. HAYDONTON, Tuesday night
ABOUT 6 o'clock this evening, a man supposed to be a wool-classer from Warrah station was run over by the ordinary good train (No. 64) to…
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Three railway accidents occurred in Victoria on Thursday, by one of which a signalman was killed at Kensington. The other accidents were a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Collision in the Brisbane River
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A collision occurred in the Brisbane River yesterday afternoon between the steamer City of Melbourne and the Government hopper barge Stingaree, which is attending on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cablegrams London, Monday. the Moto-smyrna Collision
FURTHER particulars are to hand of the disastrous collision which took place off the Needles, in the Isle of Wight, between the steamer Moto…
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Admiral Sir Alfred Phillips Ryder, K.C.B., was to-day accidentally drowned in the River Thames…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Recent Accident at Narrabri. Result of an Action for Negligence
At the Maitland Circuit Court on Monday last the case was heard of Wright and wife v. the Borough of Narrabri. This was an action brought by George Francis Wright…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. the Waratah-emu Collision
THE case for the plaintiffs in the Waratah-Emu collision is concluded. Counsel for the defendants asked for a nonsuit. Judge Foster declined,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident in a Queensland Coal Mine
THE other day a man named Hugh Clark had a narrow escape of being killed in a coal mine near the Redbank railway station, Ipswich. It appears that Clark was working with a…
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YESTERDAY morning between 10 and 11 o'clock a gentleman passing along the southern breakwater discovered the body of a man in the water close to Nobbys. The…
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TWO lads belonging to the barque Ellen yesterday morning took a boat (the reverse of a good one) and went on a voyage of discovery. Their gear consisted of a sail and…
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A despatch has been received from Captain A. B. Jenkins, in command of H.M.S. Garnet, on the East Indian station, stating that whilst his vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADEN, Saturday. Collision.—a Steamer Sunk
The Garonne arrived to-day with her bows stove in. It transpired that she had collided near Perim, in the Red Sea, with the steamer Lucinda…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Drowning Fatality. Inquest
MR. G. C. MARTIN, J.P., district coroner, yesterday afternoon, at the Coffee Palace Hotel, Blane-street, held an inquest into the cause, of the death of Patrick Flanagan, whose…
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