Accidents
Yesterday afternoon Mr. James H. Brunker met with a very nasty accident, by which an injury was sustained that will incapacitate him for some little time. While engaged…
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Accidents, 1895
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Maitland District. Burning Accident
ON Thursday night the little daughter of Mr. Charles Wilks, of West Maitland, had a narrow escape from very serious injury, owing to a burning accident. The child…
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LONDON, Thursday.—A terrible catastrophe is reported from Ottawa. A lumber raft, which was being conveyed down the river, entered into a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →S.s. Oakland —Supposed Drowning
On Saturday afternoon the steamer Oakland left for the Richmond River. When between three and four miles off Nobbys it was noticed from the Sigoal Hill that something was wrong, as the vessel…
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THE Marine Board held an inquiry to-day concerning the collision between the City of Grafton, 825 tons, steamer, and the ketch Amy Moir, 71 tons, at Sydney Heads on…
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AT half-past 9 o'clock yesterday morning a labourer named John Jackson, age 64 years, fell dead in Darby-street, the cause being heart disease. The body was removed to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatality in the Sea Pit
WHILE working in the A. A. Company's Sea Pea, between 12 and 1 o'clock yesterday morning, Mr. William M'Ghee met with an accident which resulted in his death last…
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YESTERDAY at Back Greek No. 2 tunnel an aged man named James Brown met with a serious accident. Whilst holing for a centre shot in the bord a lamp of kerosene fell from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Sea Pit Accident. Inquest and Verdict
MR. G. C. MARTIN, the district coroner, held an inquest at the Terminus Hotel, Merewether, yesterday, touching the death of William M'Ghee, a miner…
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Information was received in West Maitland last evening to the effect that a child named Thomas Raine, 12 months old, had been fatally scalded at Greta. No definite…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Queensland. Brisbane, Monday. Found Drowned
The body of a lad named Gustav Myer, who had been missing from his home in Beanly Terrace was found in the river to-day…
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A LITTLE child, named Thomas Raine, met with a terrible death on Monday, at the house of his parents The child had been suffering from whooping-cough, and on the…
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Yesterday afternoon a young miner named George Proctor was badly injured in the South Greta pit, a small coal-winning centre near Homeville. He was working…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Collision at Sydney
In Sydney harbour yesterday morning a collision occurred between the steam launch Madge and the Balmain Ferry Company's steamer Balmain. The latter was on her trip to Sydney. She had left the…
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A man named Albert Passfield sustained a very painful injury at Mr.[?]ussell's works at Denton Park yesterday He was engaged in some occupation close to part of the…
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GEORGE HODGOS, a minor employed at the Greta Colliery met with a serious accident yesterday. Hedges and a mate had fired a shot, and retired about 50yds to avoid the…
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On Thursday last the ferry steamer Balmain and a steam launch were in collision at Sydney, and yesterday a collision occurred just off Farm Cove between the steam tug Thistle and the North Share…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to the Tongariro
The Tongariro (s.), 2657 tons, of London, bound from London to Wellington, has arrived at Plymouth with damage to machinery. She will be able to proceed in a few days…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Drumpark.—accident to a Seaman
The ship Drumpark, which left Brisbane on the 8th instant, reached the harbour yesterday morning under charter to load coal for Valparaiso. Captain Armstrong is in charge, and the vessel is consigned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Late Accident on the Federal
Mr. Thomas Kelly, chief engineer of the steamer Federal, writes.—"My attention has just been drawn to a number of press reports concerning the alleged bursting of a pipe on board the steamer Federal last…
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