Extraordinary Accident
A most extraordinary accident is reported by the Dund[?] Advertiser. A [?]-[?] in that town named Mi[?] was on the roof of a house, one of the [?] of which he, with his brother, who was inside…
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Dreadful Colliery Accident
Between 6 and 7 o'oiook on Thursday morning, June, 10, an explosion occurred at Ferndale Collisry, Glamor gaushire. About half-an-hour after the celliers, of whom 600 were generally employed in the Fer[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Late Railway Collision. (From the Newcastle Chronicle, August 12.)
WE are glad to be in a position to state that our surmises with respect to the collision on the Wallsond line, briefly reported in our last issue, turned out to be correct, the accident, though by no means a trifling one, not being of such…
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MR. SHIELL, Coroner for the police district of Sydney, held an inquiry yesterday, at noon, on the body of a man named William Marks, whose body was then lying at the Benevolent Asylum. The evidence brought forward at the…
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On Wednesday evening, about eighteen minutes to 8 o'clock, an accident of a very terrible character occured at the Newtown Railway Station. A goods train proceeding up country was shunted…
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WE are glad to be in a position to stats that our surmises with respect to the collision on the Wallsend line, briefly, reported in our last issue, turned out to be correct, the accident, thought by no means a trifling one, not being of such…
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MR. SHIELL, Coroner for the polios district of Sydney, held an inquiry on Thursday, at noon, on the body of K man Darned William Marks, whose body was then lying at the Benevolent Asylum. The evidence brought forward at the…
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By telegram we learn that the ss. Bal[?]lutha, with ma[?]ls and passengers from Adelaide to King George's Sound, met with a serious accident when 50 miles S.S.E. of Cape Borda, on Tuesday morning last. She broke her shaft, and then sprang a leak in the…
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Intelligence was brought into Queanbeyan early on last Tuesday that the wife of a shepherd named Gallagher, residing near Foxlow, had, together with her son, a child of five or six yeara old, whom she in vain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to the A. S. N. CO.'S S.S. BALCLUTHA. (From the South Australian Register, August 23.)
THE Balclutha (s.), Captain Grainger, left the anchorage about 11 o'clock on Monday night, and got on all right till next morning about 4 o'clock, when the officer in charge reported something wrong with the sternpost The steamer at this time had not…
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On June 21, when some batteries of horse artillery and four cavalry regiments were engaged in field movements, the 7th Dragoons rode upon the flank of the rear squadron of the Inniskillings. A fearful crush ensued, and a number…
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A terrible explosition of nitro-glycerine has occurred at about six miles about Carnarvon. It seems that four sons of nitro-glycerine formed part of a cargo from Hamburg to Carnarvon, consigned to Messrs. Winton and Co., for…
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On June 21st, when some batteries of horse artillery and four cavalry regiments were engaged in field movements, the 7th Dragoons rode upon the flunk of the rear squadron of the Inniskillings. A fearful…
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A terrible explesion of nitro-glycerine has occurred at about six miles from Carnarvon. It seams that four tons of nitro-glycerine formed part of a cargo from Hamburg to Carnarvon, consigned to Messrs. Winton and Co., for…
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On June 21, when some batteries of horse artillery and four cavalry regiments were engaged in field movements, the 7th Dragoons rode upon the flank of the rear squadron of the Inniskillings. A fearful crush ensued, and a number…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Boat Accident. One of the Government Boat's Crew Drowned
On Thursday afternoon one of the Government boats, manned by a crew of four men, and having on board also two persons from the General Post Office, proceeded down the harbour with a…
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ABOUT noon on Thursday last, a Government boat, with a crew of four men, went down the harbour with the supplementary English mail, in charge of two employes of the General Post Office, for the purpose of putting it on board…
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Sir,—In reading the account of the inquest on the late coxswain, in this morning's paper, I think the survivors are guilty of ingratitude in at least not [?]entioning the men who risked their lives to save…
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SIR,—Referring to your report, I observe the survivers of the crew appear to blame Brunstrum for making fast the sheet. They are quite as much to blame for making fast the haul-yards. The moment a heavy squall…
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DROWNING OF THE REV. Mr. THOM.—A magisterial inquiry was held at Mr. Yabaley's, sen., J.p., Coraki, Richmond River, on Saturday, 4th instant, respecting the lamentable death of the Rev. John Thom, M.A.,…
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