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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

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Retaliation Dead. Drowned in a Whirlpool. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 5

Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, the Premier, speaking at Glasgow, said that Manchester's "splendid performance" was an unusual triumph for Mr…

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Our New Zealand Letter. Wellington, January 11th. the Oban Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1906 · page 16

In connection with the wreck of the scow Oban, that was submerged while being towed recently into Wellington Harbour, it transpires that one of the…

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Warship Blown Up. Three Hundred Drowned. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1906 · page 5

The powder magazine of the Brazllian ironclad Aquidaban exploded at midnight on Sunday at Jacaiepaona. The warship was escorting a…

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Zinita-coimbatore Collision. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 5

An inquiry was held at Wallaroo to-day concerning the collision between the selling ships Ziulta and Coimbatore, 200 miles west-south-west of Cape Borda, on…

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Boating Fatality. Two Persons Drowned. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 January 1906 · page 5

A boating fatality under circumstances which are particularly sad occurred in the harbour to-day. Shortly after one o'clock this afternoon,…

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Serious Railway Accident. Thirty Persons Injured. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 January 1906 · page 5

A very serious railway accident occurred to-day to one of the Sunday excursion trains on the Gembrook line. From Fern Tree Guily…

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Victorian Railway Accident. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 5

All that sufferers by the Gembrook railway accident are doing well except the boy Hornsby, whose condition is not satisfactory. The driver, Sheehan, was much…

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Thornton Railway Fatality. Inquest Concluded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 4

The inquest on the engine-driver, James Pead, who died as the result of scalds received on an engine on the 4th December, near Thornton, was resumed at the…

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Found Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 2

At Spiers' Point Hotel yesterday, Mr. C. Hibble, the District Coroner, held an inquest concerning the death of the man whose body was found floating in Lake…

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Accident to Lady Grey

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Lady Grey, the wife of Sir Edward Grey, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, fell from a carriage at Falloden, her…

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District News. Waratah. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 February 1906 · page 5

On Sunday morning Mr. Robert Lawton and Mr. James Sneddon, of Waratah were driving in a sulky along the Maitland-road, when, at the junction of that road and…

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The Crane Fatality. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 February 1906 · page 5

Mr. Barnett, the City coroner, held an inquest this afternoon in to the death of William Anderson, a crane hand, who die from injuries received by falling from a…

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Sydney Harbour Fatality. Coroner's Verdict. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 February 1906 · page 5

The inquiry into the circumstances of the deaths of Frederick Thomas Homing and his wife Agnes Homing, which took place in Sydney Harbour owing to a…

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Marine Court Inquiry. Darling Harbour Collision. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 5

The collision between the scow Hilda and the steam tug Gladys Allison, which occurred in Darling Harbour on the 16th December, was to-day the subject of an…

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Prevention of Mine Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 11

The following is a portion of the biennial report of the State Mine Inspector of Iowa, Mr. John Verner, transmitted to the Governor of that State:…

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Sydney Harbour Collision. Charge Against Captain Ward. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1906 · page 5

At the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, Robert Lencestor Charles Ward, master of the steamer Manly, was charged with the manslaughter of Frederick Thomas…

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District News. Minmi. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1906 · page 3

While working in Brown's No. 4 colliery on Friday, Mr. James Callaghan, scnr., sustained a fracture of the right leg, and severe injuries to the back, which were…

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A Lake Collision. Marine Court Inquiry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 February 1906 · page 7

At the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday a Court of Marine Inquiry was held concerning a collision between the steamers Rose and Toronto, which occurred at Lake…

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Pen-notes and Pencillings. the Science of Accident Assurance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 February 1906 · page 5

Life assurance is in these days a fine art. The tables of probable future life at any period of the allotted three-score-and-ten are the outcome of much care and…

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Victoria-carbella Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 4

The Court of Marine Inquiry, consisting of Judge Backhouse, with Captains Bracegirdle and M'Gibbon, assessors, took evidence to-day in reference to the…

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