Suicide by Drowning
The City Coroner held a second inquest at 11 o'clock on Monday morning, at the Observer Tavern, George-street north, on the body of a man named Thomas Godfrey Ingram, who Was…
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The Oakworth Collision Case. Acquittal of Captain Edgar
AT the Melbourne Criminal Sessions, yesterday, William Edgar, late captain of the British ship Oakworth, was arraigned on a charge of having neglected to render assistance to the crew of a…
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ONE of those terrible accidents which often happen through carelessness to those who duty it is to attend to machinery, occurred at about 10 o'clock on Friday morning at the Union Sash and Door…
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A MAN, named Charles Braggs, met with a painful accident on the Western line about 10 o'olock on Saturday, 22nd instant, at a place called Woodford's platform…
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On June 20 Captain Reynardson, of the Grenadier Guards, met with a very serious accident while playing in a polo match in Windsor Great Park. Asusual at the close of an Ascet week, a…
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THE Robert Town Mercury Of the 22nd instant. reports the following terrible calamity, which occurred to the captain and a portion of the crew of the brig Prairie: The brig Prairie left Hobart…
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AT the Melbourne Criminal Sessions, yesterday, William Edgar, late captain of the British ship Oakworth, was arraigned on a charge of having neglected to render assistance to the crew of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrible Catastrophe.—seven Persons Drowned. (From the Hobart Town Mercury, August 22.)
FARLY yesterday afternoon the city was thrown into a state of unwonted excitement in consequence of a rumour being current that the brig Prairie, Capt. M'Farlane, had foundered at soa, and all hands were lost. The constant reiteration of the rumour…
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A VERY sad accident happened about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon at a on the boast known as Little Head, about [?] to the south of Coogee Bay Mr. France not and remarker of…
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THE Hobart Town Mercury of the 22nd instant reports the following terrible calamity, which occurred to the captain and a portion of the crew of the brig Prairie: The brig Prairie left Hobart…
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Syracuse, June 23.—An appalling catastrophe occurred here to-night. A festival was being held at the Central Bupeast Church, when, without any premonition, the floor gave way, about 9.30…
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A singular accident occurred last Friday to a little boy yeas of age a nephew of Mr. Fredenick Wickham of Clarence-street Young Wickham was playing out the yard of St, Philip's school with some…
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Mr. French furnishes the following information respecting the and occurrence: "On Sunday, the 30th August, Mr. E.French, with Mrs. French, two children—George and Charles—Mr. Wilson, and Mr…
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A VERY serious accident occurred yestesday afternoon, on the Great Southern Railway, at Whiteheads Bank, about a mile and a bnlf on the Goulburn side of Sutton Forest station, through a goods…
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A man named Alexander Smith, about half-past 9 o'clock on Sunday evening, met with a severe accident near the Botany Waterworks. He was on his road home from a friends house, and while walking…
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On inquiry at the Infirmary last night into the condition of the men injured on the occassion of the railway accident at Whitehead's Bank, we were in formed that they were programing more favourably…
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A serious accident occurred about a quarter-past 9 o'clock this morning, opposite the Victoria Theatre. As the railway 'bus, with four horses attached, and loaded with passengers was coming from the station…
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OUR telegraphic column gives information of another fatal railway accident at Newcastle. The frequency of these accidents on the Great Northern Railway is becoming alarming. In the…
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