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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

288 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 15

Minmi. Accident Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 April 1906 · page 6

The committee of Brown's Nos. 2 and 4 collieries met on Thursday evening in the ambulance shed. Mr. R. Arbuckle presiding. The income, as shown, was £21…

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Middle Harbour Collision. Marine Court Powerless. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1906 · page 4

The circumstances of the collision between the Government steam launch Kate and the skiff Torcador, in Middle Harbour, on March 12th, were the subject of…

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Mining Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1906 · page 5

At the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, before the District Coroner, Mr. C. Hibble, and a jury of six, an inquest was opened concerning the death of a miner named…

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Collision in Port Phillip. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 5

A collision occurred about midnight between the steamer Aramac and the French barque Nantes, outward bound with wheat. The latter vessel, which is of 2019…

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Manly-agnes Collision. Marine Court Decision. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 5

Reserved judgment was delivered to-day by the Marine Court (Acting Judge Scholes and Captains Dakin and Bracegirdle) in the matter of the Manly-Agnes…

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Accident Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 April 1906 · page 5

The Wallsend committee of the Miners' Accident Relief Fund met at Houston's hotel on Friday evening. From a statement submitted it was shown that the…

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Accident Relief Fund. Conference of Delegates. the Charges of Malingering

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 April 1906 · page 5

The delegates of miners' lodges in the Newcastle and Maitland districts, who formed the conference on accident relief matters at various times in the past, and…

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Dudley Fatality Accidental Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 May 1906 · page 3

At the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, before Mr. C. Hibble. District Coroner, and Jury of six, the inquest was resumed concerning the death of Thomas Green, a…

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Miners' Accident Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 May 1906 · page 7

Sir,—I am glad attention has been called to this scandal. When the measure was before the House I predicted that the number of malingerers would be like the…

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Collision Off Sydney. Buninyong Beached. Barque Criffel Injured. Sydney

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

A collision occurred in Sydney Harbour at about eight o'clock to-night between the Howard Smith Company's steamer Buninyong, of 2070 tons,…

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The Harbour Collision. Buninyong Refloated. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 May 1906 · page 5

The work of raising the s.s. Buninyong from the sand in Elizabeth Bay and refloating her, was carried out with expedition under the management of Captain…

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Hamilton. Serious Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 May 1906 · page 5

A painful accident happened to Albert, the eldest son of Rev. G. H. Hewitt Methodist minister at Hamilton, yesterday about noon. A small acetylene gas…

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Stockton. Accident at the Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 May 1906 · page 5

Yesterday morning a lad named Fair-full, about sixteen years of age, residing with his parents in William-street, Stockton, met with an accident in the Stockton…

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Minmi. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 May 1906 · page 6

A serious accident took place at the Duckenfield Colliery on Tuesday afternoon through a fall of roof, resulting in W. Broadley, son of Mr. R. Broadley,…

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Fatal Mining Accident. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 May 1906 · page 5

A fatal accident occurred at the Proprietary mine at 8.30 o'clock this morning, resulting in the death of Leslie Thomas, a trucker, who fell down a shaft and…

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Hebburn Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 May 1906 · page 6

Mr. A. Pryor', District Coroner, conducted an inquest at the Criterion Hotel, Weston, on Wednesday, into the death of James Henry Swinton, who was killed in…

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Duckenfield Fatality. the Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 May 1906 · page 6

At the Minmi Courthouse yesterday before the Ceroner, Mr. C. Hibble, and a jury of six, of which Mr. James Dill was foreman, an inquest was held concerning…

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Waratah. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 May 1906 · page 6

Mr. George Tucker, an old resident of Georgetown, was the victim of an accident on Wednesday morning. He had climbed a tree, and was engaged in pruning…

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A Harbour Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 4

Yesterday afternoon collision occurred at the Dyke between the steamer Age, of the Howard Smith line, and the Commonwealth liner Pocahontas. The Age was lying at No…

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Era-mooltan Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 May 1906 · page 4

The special committee of the Adelaide Marine Board, having inquired into the Era-Moolton collision which occurred on April 20, reported that the mishap was caused through the Era…

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