Shooting Fatality near Albury
JOHN SHAIN, an old resident of Albury Flat, was the victim of a shooting misadventure on Sunday afternoon. Earlier in the day he paid a neigbborly visit to the residence…
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Accidents, 1891
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Railway Accident in France
A CARLEGRAM dated London, Monday, states that two excursion trains collided at St. Mande, on the railway line from Paris to Nincennes, in France. The carriages were lighted with gas, and a number…
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INFORMATION has just reached us of a painful accident which befel Miss Comer of this town on Wednesday week last. Miss Comer who is on a visit to some friends in the Cootamundra district, was in…
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A VERY sad accident which terminated fatally happened at Robertson on Monday Whilst a man named Charles Irvine was engaged in cutting down trees…
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A SHOCKING accident occurred at Mount McDonald at noon on Thursday to a young man named Alfred Pearson, who is employed cutting wood for the Balmoral battery. It…
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A SERIOUS street accident occurred at the junction of Flinders and Market streets Melbourne, on Wednesday afternoon. A horse driven in a springcart became restive,…
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A VERY serious accident, and one that might very easily have been attended with fatal results, occurred at Meryla on Wednesday afternoon last, and we regret to state that the victim was Mr. Walter O…
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WE are pleased to state that Mr. W. O. Gerard, the victim of the late unfortunate gun accident is progressing favourably, and that no permanent injury may be…
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A SERIOUS accident befel a man named George Cole, a labourer employed at the Government Quarries, on Monday forenoon last. Cole was engaged in what is known as "[?]arring down stone." While so…
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FROM Austria it is reported that on Monday a cloud burst over the village of Kollman, near the town Botzen, in the Tyrol; destroying half the cottages composing, the…
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NEWS has been received, of disastrous floods which have occurred in the Republic of Hayti, and of the destruction of a bridge, attended with great loss of life. A large…
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An inquiry was held at Joadja on Tuesday last, 1st instant, by the district coroner (Mr. A. D. Badgery), touching the death of a child, 12 months old, named Hugh Overand. From the…
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A YOUNG man named Edward Handmar, aged 22 years, was the victim of a very serious accident at [?]adja on Thursday last. Handmar, who is employed on what is…
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THE young man, Edward Hanmer, who was so seriously injured at Joadja on Thursday last, and who had his leg amputated at the Cottage Hospital on…
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Two thousands persons are said to have lost their lives through the floods at Toledo in Spain. Help to the distressed people is impracticable for the present, as the railways…
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WE are sure the friends of Mr. Waiter O. Gerard, and the townspeople generally, will be pleased to learn that he has so far recovered from the severe injuries he received…
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A MINER employed at the Great Southern Colliery, named Edward Charlesworth, was admitted to the Bowral hospital on Monday suffering from the effects of a gun shot…
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ON Wednesday morning a man named George Robinson, a porter at the Homebush Railway Station, was knocked down by a train, and received injuries from the…
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Mr. A.E. HOPKINS, of Darling Downs. Queensland, brother of Mrs. P.H. Throsby, of Throsby Park, Moss Vale, and son-inlaw to Dr. Lambert, of Berrima, was killed…
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AN inquest was held at Marulan on the body of a young man named John Williams. Deceased and two others, Henry Feltham and Thomas Grecian, were engaged on…
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