Was He Drowned?
Mr. Lough, formerly a partner in the firm of Backhouse and Lough, left Sydney in the Nasmoi, for Newcastle on route for Singleton, on Thursday, the 28th…
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Accidents, 1886
72 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 4
Four Girls Drowned
A sad boating accident occurred at Christchurch, New Zealand, on Tuesday last, resulting in the drowning of four young women, Kate and Edith Cotton,…
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A FEARFUL accident occurred at Toowoomba at 6 o'clock on Tuesday night. A slight fire had broken out in a stable belonging…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The ship Melbourne, which arrived from London to-day, reports a sad fatality during the voyage. On September 5, while the vessel…
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On Wednesday, Dr. George Henry Knight, in the employ of the Widows' and Orphans' Insurance Company, whilst riding along tho Kangaloon and Bowral…
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The railway line near Rookwood was the scene of a melancholy fatality at about a quarter past 11 o'clock Monday morning, when the Bathurst train was passing on its…
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A young man named Edwin Swayne had a very narrow escape from a terrible death on Saturday at the Redfern Railway Station. He was seeing a friend off, who was…
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News has just been received of a collision last night, between the steamers Helen Nicholl and the Keilawarra, north of the South Solitary. The Keilawarra,…
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THE Helen Nicoll and Australian arrived at Sydney on Friday with the survivors of the Keilawarra disaster. A vast crowd of men, women and children congregated…
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HOBART, Sunday.—An accident happened in the river this afternoon by which three lives were lost, three men named Barrett, a clerk in the Commercial Bank, Pybus…
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A telegram from Brisbane reports that a terrible calamity overshadowed the pleasure of the day's sport at a regatta held near Hamilton on Friday afternoon…
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A fatal colliery accident occurred at the Albion Colliery, two miles from Ponty-pridd, on November 4. Forty feet of the brickwork fell, the fall extending all down…
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