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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
509 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 26
LONDON, Tuesday.—Latest advices to hand from the Turkish frontier state that an attack is expected to be made by the Greeks to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday afternoon, as Mr. and Mrs. Witts, of Hinton accompanied by a lady friends, were riding their cycles in Swan-street, near the post-office, a lad rode rather…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yesterday morning Herbert Cook, son of Mr. W. Cook, the contractor for discharge of ballast, mot with a very painful accident. He was engaged in running out the trucks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Board of Trade have issued a caution to masters and officers of ships, drawing attention to the case decided recently at the Police Court, Bristol, where the master of a steamer was convicted of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A SERIOUS accident yesterday morning to Master. Fred. Raddock, of North Waratah. It appears that while he was in the act of driving a horse out of the stable it jumped…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yesterday evening a youth named Mills sustained a dislocated wrist by falling from his horse The animal, it is stated, backed over a number of waterpipes lying in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A man named Evan Evans was on his way home from work yesterday afternoon about half-past 5 o'clock. When near the old New Lambton line, on a short-cut known as the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A young man named Stephen Balcombe, well-known in the Maitland district, met with a very serious accident at Bishops-bride on Sunday last. He was in the act of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A YOUNG man, resident of Branxton, and working at this mine, met with an accident on Wednesday afternoon, but fortunately it was not serious. His duties are to assist as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Wednesday night a number of little lads were amusing themselves by endeavouring to walk on a hurdle which had been placed across Sempill-street, West Maitland,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A YOUNG man named Sydney Nosworthy was drowned while bathing in a waterhole at the head of the Lane Cove River yesterday. With three other young men he went in for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As the steamer Oakland of Sydney, was crossing the bar at the Richmond River last Wednesday she bumped heavily, and only by prompt and careful handling got out. It was found that two of the four…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A LITTLE girl named Eliza Hedley, who resided with her parents in Newcastle, met with a most distressing accident on Saturday, from the effects of which she died yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A DISASTROUS yachting accident occurred at Morington during the regatta. The yacht Progress capsized, and four men, named Frederick Hooper, John Nicholas, Michael…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. G. C. MARTIN, the District Coroner, held an inquest at the Clarendon Hotel yesterday, touching the death of the little girl Eliza Young…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →About mid-day on Saturday a middle-aged man named James Merrion, carpenter, while engaged at the repairs going on at the Duckenfield Colliery screens, had a very…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Saturday.—The steamer Ibex, owned by the Great Western Railway Company, and running between Weymouth and Jersey, touched…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A DISTRESSING fatal accident occurred at Knottingley, Chiswick. The victim was Robert Tew, aged 19, the son of a Knottingley potter, and employed at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A MAN named James Brennan, 60 years of ago, was taken to the hospital yesterday suffering from the effects of a accident received whilst at work with some other men at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN accident occurred at the Newcastle Council's crane at the foot of Merewether-street early yesterday morning, resulting in the death of one of the council's night…
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