Accident to a Mail Train. Cootamundra
AN accident happened to last night's mail train from Albury, due here at 7.45 p.m., which might have been attended with very serious results, but more by good luck than…
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Fatal Balloon Accident
GREAT alarm was created at Manchester by the sight of Professor Higgins, the parachutist, attached to a balloon, soaring over the city at a great height. The professor…
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THE Carlton Iron Foundry, owned by Messrs. Robert Bruce and Sons, and situated in Bouverie-street, Carlton, near its intersection with Queensberry-street, was on Tuesday…
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ON Thursday the body of a young man was found floating in the [?]arra (says the Melbourne Daily Telegraph) not far from Princess' Bridge, and taken to the City…
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A DISASTROUS collision occurred about 9.45 on Friday night in the harbor, off Bradley's Head, between the steamship Centennial, Captain Lessiug, outward bound to New…
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A disastrous collision occurred in the Sydney Harbour last night between the steamers Centennial and Kanahooka. The former foundered…
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A SHOOTING accident of a most unusal character is reported from Brunswick, Melbourne. The victim is a young married woman named Maher, 24 years of age, who died…
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A SHOCKING discovery was made on the Brighton railway line early on Tuesday morning (says the Melbourne Daily Telegraph). The driver of the first train from…
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A SHOCKING discovery was made on the Brighton railway line early on Tuesday morning (says the Melbourne Telegraph). The driver of the first train from…
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During the heavy westerly gale the Irene, a well-known pleasure boat, capsized off Bradley's Heads. There were 19 persons on board, including eight women. A number…
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A YOUNG man named Hazelwood, a ledger-keeper in the Bank of Victoria, distinguished himself on Monday morning by gallantly saving a gentleman from drowning…
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A SERIOUS accident which might have terminated fatally, occurred at the Viaduct on the North Wagga side of the river on Tuesday morning, the result being that two men…
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A TERRIBLE drowning fatality occurred near Wentworth on Tuesday afternoon. Richard Gurney, being about to leave home for some time, took his wife and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Inverell Fatality. Clothes Lines As Lightning Conductors
IN connection with the fatality which occurred on Saturday, when Mr. and Mrs. JosLooke were struck and killed by lightning an examination of the house after the…
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A TELEGRAM from our Urana correspondent informed us yesterday that a very sad case of drowning occurred there on Saturday, the victim being Mr. C. H. Swaddling, the…
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A SHOCKING sudden death occured at Sandhurst, Victoria, on Tuesday. The Argus relates that a young man named James Job, the only son of a widowed woman residing…
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AN overturned dray, to which was harnessed a horse, was discovered by Mr. Farquharson, dairyman, on Friday morning in a deep creek crossing Eyre-street, at Echuca South…
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Two brothers named Hcoper were drowned while bathing in a dam on the Brisbane Blocks claim, Broken Hill, shortly after 11 o'clock on Saturday night, The unfortunate…
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A NARROW escape of several deaths through being struck by lighting occurred at the Wollombi on Thursday. Mr. William Gordon, a Government surveyor in charge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatality at a Brisbane Brewery. Brisbane
Two men were suffocated in a well at the West-End Brewery last evening, and one or two other men had a narrow escape. The well had been sunk 60ft., and it contained…
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