District News. Minmi. Accident Relief Fund
The usual meeting of the committee for Duckenfield Colliery was held at the ambulance shed on Friday, when Mr. G. Durie, jun., presided. It was shown that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
Accidents, 1903
347 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 18
Wallsend Accident Relief Fund
The local board of the Accident Relief Fund met at Hetherington's Hotel on Friday evening. The income for the past pay was £27 5s 3d and the expenditure £19 7s…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatality on the Hudson
LONDON, Monday.—Owing to a forty accident at Spier Falls, on the Hudson River, in the State of New York, nineteen persons have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rush in West Australia. a Miner Drowned. Perth
A Roebourne telegram states that the latest report from the new rush near Egina shows that 130 men are on the spot. The largest nugget so far obtained weighs 43½…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Sydney Letter. the Manly Drowning Case and a Suggestion.—should a Boat Be Kept on Each Ocean Beach Where People Bathe?—the Boat Race on Saturday Yet Another Spur to Revive the Popularity of Rowing.—a Boom in Fish and Amateur Fishing.—have We Ten Thousand Confidence Men and Spielers in Sydney?—the Value of a Chamber of Commerce Junior Certificate. Sydney
That melancholy affair at Manly revives the question as to the danger of ocean-beach bathing without proper protection. While the police are assiduous in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatal Accident
Some days ago the Commissioner of Police received a report from a place named Capella, to the effect that a party of nine men were, out on one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Accident. a Woman Killed
A shocking accident, resulting in the death of a resident of Waratah, occurred at Hamilton railway station last night. Just as the 10 p.m. train was moving from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder and Fatality
LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. Edwin Burdick, a wealthy manufacturer at Buffalo, New York State, recently instituted proceeding for a divorce…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hamilton Railway Fatality. Coroner's Inquest
An inquest was held by Mr. G. C. Martia, coroner, at the Royal Hotel, Waratah, yesterday, on the body of Mrs. Huxley, who was killed at the Hamilton station…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Seaman Drowned
Late on Saturday night a seaman named Dirk Snip, on the barque Jeanette Francoise, lying at Stockton, was drowned by falling from the vessel's ladder into the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowned in a Tank
Late on Friday night Thomas Hall, a miner 40 years of age was drowned in an underground tank at his mother's residence, Jesmond. It appears that at about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Australian Injured
LONDON, Saturday.—Reuter's correspondent states, that Mr. Alexander Watt, of "the Military School, Sydney," has been the victim of a tram accident…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stockton Drowning Fatality
An inquest was held at the Clarendon Hotel yesterday before the district coroner, Mr. G. C. Martin, touching the death of Dirk Snip, a seaman belonging to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Oratava in Collision
LONDON, Tuesday.—The Orient-Pacific Line steamer Oratava, on her journey to Australia, and the steamer Netherby have been in collision at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision at Sea. Loss of Life
LONDON, Saturday.—During a dense fog in Long Island Sound, off New York on Saturday, the steamer City of Taunton, cargo laden,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Mining Accident. Albury
A miner named Charles Chappel died in the hospital this morning, having been admitted last night. He was terribly injured while working in a mine at Granya (Vic.)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend Accident Relief Fund
The members of the local board of the Accident Relief Fund met at Hetherington's Hotel on Friday evening. The income for the past pay…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plattsburg. Miners' Accident Relief
A meeting of the local board of the Miners' Accident Relief Fund was held on Friday evening. The income for the last pay amounted to the sum of £13 18s…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland District Burning Accident
Miss Maud Farrell, oldest daughter of Mr. Joseph Farrel, of Farley, received painful injuries in a burning accident yesterday afternoon while attending to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wallsend. Accidents
A lad named J. Horne, employed at the Wallsend tunnel pit-top, met with an accident on Tuesday. One of his hands was severely crushed, and he received injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →