News of the Day. Accident
An accident occurred on board the s.s. Went-worth, at the A.S.N. Co.'s Wharf, about 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon, by which a labourer, named Henry Thompson,in the employment of the company…
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Accidentally Drowned
A LAD named Cooper, residing with his parents in King-street, was accidentally drowned on Thursday about 8 am., by falling over the Patent Slip Wharf. The unfortunate lad was…
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A serious boat accident, by which five persons lost their lives, occurred at Teignmouth on July 19. About 250 persons in the employ of Messrs. Robinson, wholesale stationers and paper…
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Between 4 and 5 o'clock, yesterday afternoon, a hone attached to a delivery cart (belonging to Messrs. L. and E. Hordern, drapers, of Bilckfield Will), while standing at the junction of Victoria street…
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A WOMAN named Ph[?]ebe Wardrobe, about thirty, five years of age, and wife of John Wardrobe, engineer, living at Wellington-street, Chippendale, was severely burnt shortly after midnight on…
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A CASE of determined suicide at sea occurred at sea on the voyage of the Rodney, a large new iren ship, which arrived in port on Saturday from London. The Rodney left Plymouth on July 7,…
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Edward Eastern, employed as carter by Mr. Russell, brickmaker, of Greenwich road. North Shore, had his leg broken this moraine, while driving a cart laden with bricks. His for slipped and he fell, the wheel of…
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Jasper Holder, formerly an omnibus proprietor, but now a labourer, while proceeding home to Waterloo, last night, slipped off the kerbing in Botany-road, and sustained a fracture of the left thigh. Strange to…
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Edward Devaney, a. labourer, who had been in the employ of Mr Pye, of Moonbank, near Liverpool, and who was so seriously injured on the 10th ultimo, by having his thigh broken and his body crushed by a…
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THE Hungarian papers give the details of an accident by which the bride and bridegroom and seven other persons were drowned while taking a trip on the water on their wedding day. A storm…
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A deplorable accident has occurred in Little Strand-street, Dublin. It appears that between twenty and thirty persons were assembled in a room, attending the wake of a child not more than…
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One of the most destructive railway accidents ever known in South Wales happened on August 12, at Bargoed station, on the Rhymney Railway. A mineral train of forty 10ton waggpons, laden with coal, was taken out of the siding of…
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A lad named Thomas Haswell, aged 12 years, was received into the Infirmary this morning, suffering from injuries to his chest, named by a cordial manufacturer's cart having been accidentally driven over…
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THE Southern Argus reports that as Mr. John Q'Brian, a farmer of Gullen, was riding home on horseback from Goulburn late last Wendesday night, his horse stumbled and fell when…
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SIR,—I beg to enclose Captain Tyler's report to Board of Trade on the above subject, and hope that our New South Wales Government will adopt his recommendations in good time…
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A deplorable accident has occurred in Little Btrand-atreet, Dublin. It appears that between twenty and thirty persons were assembled in a room, attending the wake of a child not more than…
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One of the most destructive railway accident ever known in South Wales happened on August 12, at Bargoed station, Ryhomey Railway. A mineral train of 40 ten-ton waggons, laden with…
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A fatal accident occurred on Saturday, at Ultimo, resulting in the death of an elderly man named John Fisher, and a severe injury to a little girl six years of age, his grand-daughter. It appears that, about…
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