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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
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B.J. Knight, cordial-maker in Port Pirie, had an accident to-day. One of his bottles bursting, the stopper struck him in the eye. It is believed that he will lose the sight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A CARPENTER named Charles Ocklen was run over and killed by a train near Burwood station about 11 o'clock last night. Death must have been instantaneous. The body…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday. — A drilling vessel which was engaged in deepening the Devonport dockyard has met with an extraordinary accident. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday. —Whilst taking part in a stag hunt yesterday, Lord William Beresford was seriously injured through his horse falling on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An accident of a serious character took place on Saturday, caused by an explosion of gunpowder, whereby two boys, sons of our respected townsman,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Saturday.—Lord William Beresford, who was recently thrown from his horse whilst stag hunting, is now improving. He is suffering…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miss Ellen Ardley, of Tasmania, who was injured in the collision between a cart and a tram car, died yesterday. Pierce M'Guinness, the driver of the cart, will be charged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Marine Board to-day gave their decision in the oases of the collision between the steamer Manly and the collier Merksworth in Sydney harbour on December 18, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY afternoon a young woman named Essie King, residing at Enmore, while on the rail of the Iron Cove Bridge lost her balance and fell into the water. She was rescued in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Further details received from New York regarding the foundering of the filibustering steamer, Commodore, which left Florida…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SERIOUS collision occurred in the harbour shortly before 9 o'clock yesterday morning between the Adelaide S.S. Co.'s chartered steamers Dovedale and Indianapolis, by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In connection with the mishap to the Adelaide S.S. Company's steamer Colac, a report from Adelaide says:—"The vessel left Fremantle for Sydney at 11 30 a.m. on Saturday, December 20, passing Cape…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As the steam collier Easby was turning round in the Yarra, Victoria, on Tuesday, prior to leaving for Newcastle, she ran stem-on to the ship Lake Superior, which was discharging cargo alongside the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday.— Mr. Henry Chaplin, President of the Local Government Board, whilst hunting at Trentham Hall yesterday, was thrown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A painful accident happened on Tuesday evening to a girl five years of age, named Maggie Hogg, daughter of Mr. W. Hogg, storekeeper. The young girl was climbing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ABOUT 6 o'clock last evening Mr. Simon Bland, an old resident of Waratah, and well known throughout the district, was thrown from his buggy and killed, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Mr. Henry Chaplin, president of the Local Board, who was severely injured by being thrown from his horse while hunting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Saturday morning the steamship Excelsior, from Geelong to Melbourne, collided with and sank the Lulu, a ketch 43 tons register. The accident took place in the Hopetoun Channel. The Lulu is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE inquest into the circumstances of the death of Mr. Simon Bland, who was fatally injured the previous day by being thrown from a buggy on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A collision took place in Hobson's Bay early on Sunday morning between the Melbourne Steamship Company's steamer Melbourne and the four-masted barque Moel Tryvan, which was lying at anchor…
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