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Southern Highlands · Accidents
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On Tuesday night a domestic servant named Annie M'Lellan aged 27, was on the Kerferd road pier Melbourne, talking with her lover, Robert Alfred Burtles…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The military memorial service in connection with Captain Thos. Honey, who was recently drowned in the Minuamurra River, cook place at the Oddfellows' Hall, Kiama,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday last a girl named Margaret Walz, four years of ago, was killed at her home at Rockdale through being struck with an axe by her father. The girl, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To the non-legal mind the term 'accident' would appear to be easily-defined, but the late Lord Chief Justice Cockburn thought not, and on several occasions insurance…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Friday evening Chas. Chipper, aged 15, William Chipper, aged 9, and Hilda Chipper, aged about 6, went crabbing at William street jetty, Perth, W,A. Later on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When the 7 30 train from Healesvillle to Melbourne reached Ringwood Station on Saturday night, the boiler of the engine exploded, sad did considerable damage to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Lachian M'Bain, of Woorooma and Windocran stations, near Moulamein, died on Friday having been thrown out of his buggy on his journey to town. He had not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MURDEROUS onslaught was made upon the police early on Friday morning by three burglars in Bridge-street. The burglars had effected an entrance to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As the Manly Co-operative Steam Ferry Company's steamer Conqueror was coming from Manly at 7 o'clock on Tuesday night she came into collision with the North Shore…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It was a lovely day in summer and I was drifting dreamily down the stream, as I sat in my little skiff, enjoying the fresh and balmy air and gentle motion. Willows…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lady Hopetonn met with a serious accident on Wednesday which nearly resulted in her losing her life. She was out following Mr. Miller's honnds, which started from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A strange accident through the discharge of a gun happened on Friday afternoon to Alfred Lenehan, son of the proprietor of the Sanatorium Hotel, Pent's Ferry, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Hartley, an American, 20 years of age, has recently given his experience in drowning. Bathing with some comrades in the Ohio, he stayed too long under water and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Thursday morning between 5 and 6 o'clock, a fatal accident occurred on the Great Northern line, between Hamilton and Waratah stations. An empty stock train from tho Sydney end had passed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.—A peculiar accident happened on the Mount Pleasant collieries' railway line yesterday. A long train of coal-laden trucks was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN accident occurred an the railway line on Thursday morning at the cutting below Hill Top platform. It completely blocked the line and caused considerable dolay. The express goods train number 36,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWS reached Sydney on Thursday that on Sunday night the steamer Wairarapa had been wrecked on Great Barrier Island, 40 miles from Auckland, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A TERRIBLE railway collision, resulting in the loss of elevon lives and the injury of many passengers, occurred just outside the Rodfern railway station ou Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terrible railway collision, resulting in the less of eleven lives and the injury of many passengers, occurred just outside the Redfern railway station on Wendesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →W. WILLIAMS, driver of the Goulburn train, was committed for trial for manslaughter by the coroner's jury on Friday, for having started his train to…
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