News of the Week. Another Sad Case of Drowning
The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1879 · page 2
or the second time this season we are called d[?] to record a melanchely case of drowning. in last evening about 6 o'clock Mr. Fred-Harris, Mr. John Thomas Bowler, Mr. Peter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Boat Accident on Lake Alexandria
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 5
OUR readers have been informed by telegram of this sad event, which took place on the 6th instant at Lake Alexandria, the waters into. which the river Murray empties in South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accidents to Submarine Cables
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 February 1879 · page 6
A CURIOUS submarine accident occurred a few years ago to the Persian Gulf cable. The cable suddenely broke down faulty. The position of the fault was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Bank Teller Accidentally Shot
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 5 March 1879 · page 4
AT Albury on Friday afternoon, just before the closing hour for the banks, a suspiciouslooking character entered the Bank of New South Wales. The teller, Mr. Wm. Moffitt,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Accident
Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 5 March 1879 · page 4
ANOTHER dreadful accident occurred on Friday morning, at the Footscray railway station, equalling in its appalling details the one by which the body…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collision at Sea. Five Lives Lost
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 5
THE steamship Barrabool, which arrived on Tuesday morning from Newcastle, reported that on Wednesday night, at half-past 8 o'clock, when off Red Head, she camp into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision and Loss of Life at Sea
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 3
ANOTHER very painful coasting disaster has to be added to the already long black list The Barrabool (s.), which arrived in Port Jackson yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Collision on the Coast. Loss of Five Lines
Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 6
THE most serious steamboat collision that has taken place on our coast happened last Monday night between the Melbourne Steam Company's steamer Barrabool; (Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Startling Balloon Accident
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 April 1879 · page 2
THE novel feature—and what proved to be a most sensational item in the programme of Easter Monday's amusements—was a balloon ascent from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Accident to Mr. Gray at the Company's Bridge. [To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 4
SIR,—Your, contemporary the Express would have it appear that I, the driver of the 'bus, was the the cause of the unfortunate accident to Mr. Gray that occurred on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Accident at the Company's Bridge. (To the Editor of the W. W. Express )
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 5
SIR,—As a lover of justice, I wish to contradict a statement made by you in your last issue, having reference to the late accideut that occurred to a Mr. Gray. It would…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alarming Accident in a Mine
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 14 June 1879 · page 2
AN accident of rather an exciting nature occurred on Friday afternoon (the Stawell Chronicle reports) at the Great Southern Mine, Garden Gully. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowning of Two Young Girls. (Echo.)
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 2 July 1879 · page 4
It is seldom we are called upon to record so distressing and painful an occurrence as that which happened on Saturday afternoon, namely, the drowning of two young girls in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Accident to the Duke Medina-cceli
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 July 1879 · page 1
On the 13th May, while strolling over his estates in the mountains near Avila, with his young wife, the Duke of Medina-Coeli, the premier peer and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Fatal Bathing Accident
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 12 July 1879 · page 2
Notwithstanding the censure of the jury at the inquest on the bodies of the two young girls drowned in the Corporation Baths at Woolloomooloo Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. the Late Coach Accident. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 6 August 1879 · page 2
SIR,—In justice to Pat Bergin, allow me to state that I can prove the truth of his asscrtion, that the passengers did not walk into town on last Sunday night week, after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision in Hobson's Bay
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 30 August 1879 · page 1
ANOTHER shipping disaster (says the Melbourne Daily Telegraph) has occurred in Hobson's Bay, making the third within the past week. On…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Serious Accident on the Great Northern Line. West Maitland
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 25 October 1879 · page 7
THE return train, conveying the railway employees from their holiday picnic, at Ravensworth, met with an accident at New Frengh, this side of Singleton…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Drowning of Mr. R. H. Pyke
The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 28 November 1879 · page 3
The following particulars concerning the death of Mr. E. H. Fyke, who, as already announced, was drowned in the Edward river at Deniliquin on Saturday, the 8th inst., we take…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fatal Boat Accident
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 December 1879 · page 7
THE City Coroner resumed the inquest on Tuesday morning at the Brecknock , Arms, on the body of Sarah M'Grath (Keating), who was drowned near…
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