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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
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THE report furnished to the Minister for Works shows that five of the arches supporting the aqueduct connecting the Prospect and Potts Hill dams gave way either during the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE work of repairing the [?]i near the Prospect Reservoir is progressing satisfactorily. The conduit has been emptied, and steps are being taken to lay a line of pipes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A RATHER serious accident happened to a son of Mr. John Howard, dealer, of Wallsend. It appears that he was riding along Murnain-street, Wallsend, on horseback, and at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN accident resulting in the shocking death of a boy named Walter Roche occurred yesterday evening at the Eamore tram terminus. The lad had been given some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. Lawrence Irving, son of Mr. Henry Irving, has shot himself in the lung at Belfast. It is believed that the occurrence was accidental…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two very sad deaths by drowning occurred in Maitland on Sunday. In the first case, that of a promising young man named James Hendry,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Sunday.—The four masted barque Mashona, 2350 tons, bound from Cardiff to Port Pirie, South Australia, has been in Collision with the iron screw steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The brigantine Vailele, formerly the Forest King, arrived from the Solomon Islands, at Sydney, on Sunday. Captain Woodhouse met with a nasty accident. While at the Islands, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TREVLYN MARCHANT, 14 and Daniel Brown, 15, were charged at the Police Court, Parramatta, to-day with that, in company, they did maliciously divert a point on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY afternoon an able seaman named Frank Wickham, 20 years of age, while on board the ship Inchcape Rock, fell down the hold, a distance of some 30ft, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Peter Roth, who met with an accident by being thrown out of a trap on Tuesday last, died at Crystal Brook while on route to the Jamestown Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A ganger on the Zeehan and Strahan railway way named Patrick Fogarty was run over by two trucks and almost cut in two. He died immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday a sad drowning accident took place at Glenelg, by which Mr. P. E. Jago, nephew of the assistant Health Officer, lost his life. The deceased was in the second…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The schooner Olga. from San Francisco, has arrived at Sydney. Captain C. Rodin reports: Passed Cape Flattery on Saturday, the 17th November, at 4 p.m. Until lat. 26 deg north, long…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WILLIAM FURRY, a youth between 17 and 18 years of age, met with a serious accident yesterday morning. While riding in a paddock just off Scott-street, about 10 o'clock,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →William Mackay, second officer of the American barque Margaret, lying at the South Wharf, had been absent from his ship for a fortnight when he…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A SHARP thunderstorm, followed by a steady downfall of rain, occurred at Molong yesterday evening. The Molong Creek in less than an hour was a banker, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Sunday evening a little son of Mr. Edward Benson, of Wickham, met with a very serious injury through being kicked by a horse. The boy approached the animal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A SHOCKING fatality occurred at Wentworthville near Parramatta, yesterday afternoon, by which a young lady, Miss Lucy Hicks, daughter of Mr. W. H. Hicks,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A RAILWAY porter named Robert Hodgins, living at Wickham, met with an accident yesterday afternoon of rather a serious nature. He was standing on a truck pulling…
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