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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
465 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 24
Mr. G. W. Nicolls' steamer Chindera struck the Tweed River bar in crossing out on Wednesday, and on proceeding to see it was found that the vessel was making a good deal of water. On arrival at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A shocking accident occurred at Cassidy's Hill mine to-day during the filling of a cage in the main shaft. A temporary staging which had been erected at the mouth of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—A serious and most odd accident occurred to-day to the machinery employed in working the gigantic wheel at the Empress of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT an inquest on an elderly woman named Isabel Nealds, who was burnt to death at her residence, Coogeo, yesterday morning, a verdict of accidental death was to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When the steamer Time was leaving Sydney on Thursday morning, outward bound to Newcastle, one of the boiler doors blew off, and the steamer had to anchor in Chowder Bay. The damage done was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A collision occurred shortly before 10 o'clock on Saturday night between the Clarence River steamer Iolanthe and the steam collier Kelloe, by which the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When the steamer Era was going alongside the Wallaroo jetty at 4 o'clock on Monday morning last, she ran stem on to the jetty, and, striking between the piles, cat into the planking for a distance of 8ft…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A telegram from Herberton states that a child of Mr. Lynch, selector, fell into a waterhole at Carrington. Alexander M'Crow, aged 21 years, rushed to the rescue and was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30 p.m. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. REID, in reply to Mr. AFFLECK, said it was not the intention of the Land and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sailor on the gunboat Protector, named Sanders, fall overboard a depth of 15ft into a boat, which was moored alongside, and was picked up insensible…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The pilot at the south passage reported at noon to-day that the steamer Barrabool, from Sydney, passed slowly under sail, flying distress signals. Messrs. Howard Smith…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30 p.m. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. REID, in reply to Mr. SEH, said that the revenue for the eleven months ended 31st…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The U.S.S. Company's steamer Ohau, bound from Port Chalmers to Westport, has put in to Wellington. The captain reports that when two miles off the Brothers lighthouse, and going full speed, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A SERIOUS accident occurred to Mr. James Power, of Minmi, last Thursday. He was engaged crushing some compressed powder, which is used for blasting, into fine powder…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—A shocking outrage has been perpetrated at Barcelona. Whilst a procession was entering a church a bomb was suddenly thrown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—The report that James Stanbury, the champion sculler of the world, was drowned in the Thames proves to be untrue. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A FATAL and alarming accident which occurred to-day in the Metropolitan Colliery clearly demonstrated the extraordinary pressure which prevails in that deep mine. In…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30 p.m. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. SYDNEY SMITH said that the Government were fully advised of all cases of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Albert Card v. James Fletcher. Claim for £100 for injuries sustained through a collision with defendant's vehicle. Mr. T. F. Low appeared for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A serious railway accident occurred to-day at Boorabby, near Southern Cress. Two goods trains collided, tearing up the permanent way and damaging the rolling stock…
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