Collision with a Lighthouse
It was the steamer Triumph which some years ago came the nearest to knocking down a lighthouse of any vessel in colonial waters, when she was…
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Supersition About Drowned Bodies
Supurtiition every where has many curious motes of recovering the body of a drowned person. The universality of this form of superstition is shown by the fact…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Fatal Railway Accident
A RAILWAY accident occur rod at a quarter past 12 o'clock' on Sunduy to a mixed train which left Harden at a quarter past 9 o'clock on Sunday night. When the train, was approaching…
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On New Year's evening Mr. W. Harris, of Ellemgowan, had a terrible experience, being tossed and gored by a wild bullock, and eventually thrown over a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Queensland Crocodile fatality
MR. ARCHIBALD MESTON, (a brother of Mr. A, Meston of Woodburn), who is at present in sydney with a company of Queensland aboriginals, known as [?] Meston's wild Aboriginals," writes to a Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Ladies Drowned at Bodalla
WHILST several ladies, member of the Mort family, and some friends, were bathing in the Tuross River on, Saturday, near. Comerang, Mrs. Edward Mort, of…
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ADVICES from Melbourne state that the inquiry on the body of Clara Amelia Manton, the young woman who was recently drowned in less…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shocking Accident in Melbourne
A SHOCKING accident under sensational circumstances happened at Melbourne last Saturday, at a new building in course of erection, causing the death of an engine driver…
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A SHOCKING accident under sensational circumstances happened at Melbourne last Saturday at the new buildings in course of erection for the Equitable Insurance Company of New York,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Burning Fatality at Tenterfield
A FIRE broke out at Tenter field on Wednesday in a storeroom at the rear of Thomas A. Lewis and Co.'s stores. The alarm was at once given, but it was seen…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →[?] of a Boat in Bitany Bay. six Men and a Boy Drowned
DURINO the strong gale that passed over sydney on Friday, accompanied with very heavy rain, a shock ing ealmit occurred in Botany Bay, which resulted in six men and a boy being drowned through the…
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A saD boating fatality occurred in Botany Bay on Friday last. A sailing boat, in which were seven men and a boy, swamped in the middle of the bay, and of the occupants only one man…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Naval Collision in the Mediterrancan
THIS report concerning the sinking of H.M.S. Victoria in the Mediterranean has been confirmed. The irouclal sank after having been in collision with H.M.S. Camperdown, a vessel on the same station…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Woman Loses Both Feet by a Railway Accident
In reference to the railway accident telegruphed last week, the S. M. HERALD states: —Mrs. Solomon, of Victoria-street, Petersham, was admitted to the Parramatta…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Oakland-Sydney Collision
ON her last trip to this river the steamer Oakland met with a slight mishap, resulting in a couple of her plates above water being damaged. A collision occurred with the steamer…
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LONDON, Friday.—H.M.S. Victoria, flagship of the Mediterranean Squadron, has been sunk off the coast of Tripoli, through a collision with H.M.S…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Sydney-Oakland Collision
THE Marine Board met on Monday afternoon and initiated an inquiry into the circumstances attending the collision between the steamers Sydney and Oakland on the morning of June 24th. There were…
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THE Marine Board inquiry into the collision between the steamers Oakland and Sydney commenced on Monday, 3rd July. The respective owners of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Accident to the Chingtn
THE people of Ballina were aroused on Tuesday morning by the bells and whistles of the steamers in port, when it was seen that a large steamer was drifting rapidly, and apparently helplessly past the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How to Resuscitate the Drowned
Any method which promises success in cases of asphyxia due to submersion or in cases of apparent death, is worthy, of careful trial, more especially when this…
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