Harbour Collision
A slight collision occurred on Saturday morning at the Queen's Wharf between the Adelaide S.S. Co.'s steamer Dovedale and the four-masted barque Howth. The…
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Accidents, 1902
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A Sydney Letter. the Miners' Accident Fund and Its Moral.—the Increase in Oil Launches in Sydney Harbour.—have the Darlington Murderers Escaped?—all Flags Half-mast for Mount Kembla.—mr. Spence Becomes One-sided.—petty Rogues Cheat the Railway Revenue.—that Packed Troopship, the Drayton Grange. Sydney
The Miners' Accident Fund is contributed to by employers and employees. So far so good; but it is also contributed to by the country, by all people alike, by…
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LONDON, Sunday.—A terrible railway disaster occurred near Meerut, India, yesterday. A train was derailed at Khatauli Station, 16 miles north…
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A departmental inquiry, under the provisions of the Public Service Act, was held at the Navigation Department offices yesterday for the purpose of dealing with…
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The departmental inquiry, under the provisions of the Public Service Act, for the purpose of dealing with a charge of negligence made against Pilot W. H…
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A collision occurred in the harbour shortly before 5 o'clock yesterday morning at the entrance to the port between the coasting steamer Tama, a well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Sydney Letter. a State Accident Fund.—three Hundred Thousand Workers and £600,000 a Year.—the Price of Meat Trouble.—the Trouble with the Bread Employees.—the Decrease in Imports Falls First on the Merchants.—the Meanest Man of the Year.—mrs. Guilfoyle's Pension.—in Memory of Sir Henry Parkes. Sydney
The Mayor of Sydney echoes the same sentiment—if an accident fund is good for one class of operatives it is good for all; therefore why not a fund to cover all…
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A sad drowning fatality took plate yesterday by which a man named Abraham Hartup, employed as master of the borough council garbage punt, lost his…
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A man named Emmerson [?] years of age, was killed by being run ever by a [?] at Broadmeadow on Saturday night. It appears that the [?]ed left…
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The circumstances of the death of Emmerson Dixon, aged 76 years, an old age pensioner, who was killed by being run over by a tram at Broadmeadow on…
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LONDON, Monday.—Just after the Royal procession had passed, a naval band stationed in Parliament-street startled a horse attached to a private…
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On Friday, a miner, named George Chapman, residing in Cardigan-street, Upper Stockton, received painful injuries in the Stockton mine, through getting Jammed…
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Sir,—Mr. H. M. Burkitt, inspector at Newcastle under the Factories and Shops Act, states in his annual report appearing in the "Newcastle Herald," "A man…
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The fortnightly meeting of the committee for Brown's Nos. 2 and 4 Duckenfield collieries was held in the ambulance shed. Mr. T. Wells presided. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Sydney Letter. the Imperial Conference and Australian Successes.—regarding Mail Services "All Red" and Otherwise.—the Economics of Demand and Supply.—something About the Old Age Pensions.—only a Printing Machine.—the State Accident Fund and a Suggestion. Sydney
It would appear as if the Imperial Conference had not resulted in such a fiasco after all. It was recognised down here that it would result in increased good…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hurled to Death. Motor Cycling Fatality
LONDON, Friday.—A fatal accident has occurred to motor cyclists at Evreux, in France, a town 67 miles to the north west of Paris…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend. Accidents
Toy firearms were responsible for a couple of accidents in this locality last week the most serious of which occurred on Saturday afternoon to a son of Mr. W…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Accident. a Fettler Killed
At about 10 o'clock on Saturday morning a fettler, named David John Dunning, was run over and killed by a train on the railway line between Awaba and Dora…
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Shortly after eleven o'clock last night a man named Henry Pracey, employed as a cattleman on board the steamer Ascott, lying at No. 11 crane, fell overboard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Fatality. Important Evidence. the Inquest Adjourned
The circumstances of the death of David John Dunning, the fettler who was killed by a train on the railway line between Awaba and Dora creek on Saturday…
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