Accident Fund
After the above meeting, a meeting of the subscribers to the Seaham Accident Fund was held, and as there was only a small attendance the last quarterly minutes were read and…
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Accidents, 1899
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Boating Fatality. Two Lives Lost. Sydney, Sunday Night
This morning a party of seven, consisting of men and boys, left their homes in Ultimo, and hired the sailing boat Dart, a 17-footer. They proceeded down the…
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A miner named James Price, employed in No. 5 section of the Duckenfield Colliery met with rather a nasty accident on Thursday. It appear that Mr. Price was filling…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Accident to the Glaucus
At a meeting of the Melbourne Marino Board on Friday's a report was received from Captain Prideaux of the Glaucus, relative to the mishap to the steamer last Saturday. The report, after detailing the…
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General regret has been expressed through the city at the boating disaster which occurred in Rose Bay yesterday afternoon, and by which four lives were…
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The inquiry into the circumstances of the collision between the steamer Currajong and the ketch Lansdowne, which occurred off St. George's Head on September 27th,…
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A youth named William Scott, the son of Mrs. Scott, of Lambton, and a nephew of Mr. William Baker, by whom he was employed at the bakery, was accidentally…
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LONDON, Thursday.—A collision has taken place off Gibraltar between the Orient liner Cuzco and H.M.S. Anson, one of the Mediterranean Squadron. The Cuzco…
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Mr. Edward Byrnes, a carter, employed at Mr. James Wolstenholme's sawmills, met with a painful accident yesterday while attending to one of the horses. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Whaling Accident
A crew of the Eden whalers, including two of the Kish Davidsons had a sensational experience and a narrow escape from drowning on Friday evening The whalers had fastened to a large humpack cow…
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The Sydney Marine Board yesterday delivered its finding to the collision between the steamer Currajong and the ketch Lansdowne, which occurred off St. George's…
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Mr. George Vincer, of High-street, met with a serious accident ton the Mount Vincent road, near Buchanan yesterday. He was driving two horses attached to a spring…
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At Cardiff on Thursday afternoon a Mrs. Hayward, residing with her husband, met with frightful injuries through falling into the fire while in a fit. The unfortunate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dyke Railway Fatality. Inquest on Guard Bailey
Mr. G. C. Martin, the district coroner, held an inquest at Woodley's Sydney Junction Hotel, Beaumont-street, Hamilton, yesterday morning, touching the death of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatality at Wickham. Killed by an Engine
Yesterday morning, shortly before 8 o'clock, Driver W. Howard, who had just returned from Sydney, after leaving his engine in the cleaning shed, jumped upon an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wickham Railway Fatality. Inquest and Verdict
An inquest was held at the Albion Hotel, Wickham, yesterday morning, by Mr. G. C. Martin, the district coroner, touching the death of the engine-driver, William…
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The Sydney Murine Board has given its decision in the case of the Currajong-Lansdowne collision, which occurred off the Lightship in the harbour on September 27, by which the ketch Lansdowne was sunk…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Accident on the Railway Line. Guard Bruce Seriously Injured
Quite a series of accidents have occurred recently on the railway lines between Newcastle, the dyke and Hamilton. The latest victim is Guard Frederick Bruce, aged 39,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Parliament. Tuesday, October 31. Legislative Assembly. Newspaper Postage. Accidents at Broken Hill. Coal Mines Regulation Bill. Sydney
The Speaker took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. The POSTMASTER-GENERAL, in…
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WELLINGTON, Thursday.—Captain Lorraine, the military aeronaut of the first volunteers battalion of the Northampton-shire Regiment, while making a balloon…
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