Drowned in the Harbour
Another boat accident, attended with fatal results, took place in the habour, off Double Bay at about 7 o'clock last Friday evening. A party of young men named respectively William…
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Accidents, 1886
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The Fatal Accident in Pitt Street. Verdict of Accidental Death
AN inquest was held at the assembly Hotel, Hunter-street, on Saturday, before Mr. H. Shiell, J.P., City Coroner, relative to the death of…
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NEW YORK, January 2.—Mail advices received to-day from Panama say:—On December 22 two families named Silva and Gonzalese left Talcahuana, Chile, in a boat for Peno, for the…
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A TELEGRAM to Mr. McKenzie, examiner of coal-fields, was received this morning from the Lithgow Valley Colliery and Pottery Co., Limited, to the effect that the pit was on fire,…
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A telegram from Brisbane on Friday stated that Simpson, the chief officer, and Swanson, the boatswain of the City of Melbourne, had been arrested at Cooktown in connection with…
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RUMOURS reached town on Monday morning that a railway accident had happened at the zigzag, and that several persons had been killed and many more injured. As usual…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident in South Australia. Adelaide
AN accident occurred on the Hergott and Strangways last night, resulting in five men being killed, and three wounded, though not seriously. About 8 o'clock, as an engine with…
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THE cause of the above accident, concerning which some particulars appeared in our (Southern Argus's) issue of Saturday, lies, of course, between the locomotive and signalling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shocking Fatal Gun Accident
LAST night, just after we had gone to press, Mr. E. B. Percy came breathless into town and reported to the police and Dr. Fitzpatrick that he had been the accidental cause of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident at Gundaroo
Yesterday the Coroner(Mr. Parr) received telegram from the police at Gundaroo apprising him of the death on Saturday of a boy named Heylen who was killed by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Intelligence. Fatal Accident at Gundaroo
ON Tuesday last, Mr. Parr, the district coroner, and a jury of twelve, held an inquest at the Royal Hotel, Gundaroo, on view of the body of the boy Haylen, who,…
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THE case of Woollette and wife v. Malone and another was decided in the supreme court on Tuesday before Sir G. Iines and jury of four. This was an action arising…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Accident. TUMUT
The Rev. Roger Makinon, Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, is holding services in this district and officiating for the Rev. Robert Jackson, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Frightful Railway Accident. ADELAIDE
A frightful accident occurred at the Quorn railway, station this morning. A woman named M'Lean, wife of Alexander M'Lean, a labourer, was going by, tarin…
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At Ringwood to-day the cone of a, tile kiln collapsed, and four persons were buried beneath the debris. A boy named John Brackwell was killed, his body…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Distressing Fatal Accident. WALGET
An inquiry was hold to-day touching the death of Dr. Francis Octavius Hodson. A verdict was returned that he died from a revolver shot wound in the head inflicted…
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FROM the Cumberland Mercury we extract the following, which will interest a number of our readers, as Dr. Johnson was for some time a resident of this…
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THE Burrangong Argus given the following particulars of the accident referred to in our Gininderra correspondence, which happened to a young gentleman…
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A settler, named Thomas Locock, while branding at Jiggi on Wednesday last, was thrown to the ground by getting entangled in the rope. He received injuries to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Intelligence. Serious Accident
NEWS arrived in town on Wednesday to the effect that a carrier residing in Gundaroo, named George Wilkinson, had been killed whilst travelling with his team on…
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