Singular Fatal Accident
On Sunday evening a melancholy occurrence took place on the cricket ground at Lees, near Oldham. The opening game had been played on the previous afternoon, and after using the large land…
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Serious Accident
The excitement generally attending the running out of fire engines is usuaally great, and in many instances when the engine is drawn by manual power accidents occur. This morning, shortly before eleven…
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Last night (says Friday's NEWCASTLE PILOT), shortly after 9 o'clock, constables Griffin and Dunahes arrested a man named Vitey, in Hunter-street, on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. The man…
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About noon yesterday (Sunday), Mr. Lang (of Messrs. Mather and Lang, [?]ers, of Bathurst street) went up the stairs of his house to obtain a screw wrench, and when in the act of coming down again,…
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List Sunday evening, between 8 or 9 o'clock, George Moos, a man of about sixty years of age, who worked at shoemaking in the village of Lochinvar for the last six or seven years, was drowned in a small…
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About 11 o'clock to-day a stonemason named Edward Wynne employed at the building of the new offices for the New Zealand Insurance Company in New Pitt-street, sustained a very severe laceration, of…
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On Friday last, as the s.s. You Yangs was about to leave Melbourne for this port, a young woman, named Matilda Woodham, stewardess of the vessel, met with a very serious accident. It appears she was…
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A rather severe accident occurred, on Thursday morning about 9 o'clock to an old mail named Samuel Bound, who was at the time crossing George and Bathurst streets, He was knocked down by a horse…
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A shocking occurrence, followed by a gallant and most praise worthy action on the put of a gentleman took place on May 22. A lad named George Buc'knell, aged ten years, was playing with Li…
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A dreadful accident has occurred at Judenberg, in the valley of Mur, in Styria. The month of May is the pilgrimages. All over the country processions are get up to one or. another of the…
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An inquest has been held at Westminster hospital touching the death of James Smith, aged 42, a labourer employed at Messrs. Cassel's, Baltic Wharf, Millbank. The evidence showed deceased…
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An old man named Joseph Clayton, who was employed as a shepherd at Hartley, arrived in town early this morning by train, and was afterwards taken by his two daughters to the Infirmary, where he was…
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A few days ago we were briefly apprised by telegram, of the death by drowning, of the first and second officers of the ship Truro. at Brisbane. The following are the particulars:-Mr. William Crang,…
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John For received injuries to his [?] yesterday, while handling stones in Castlereagh-street : and John Parday sustained a fracture of the rich, which necessitated his admission into the [?]…
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THE ship Harlaw, Captain Stephens, which arrived here from London yesterday evening, gives the following report of her Toyage:-ON May 3, at 1.30 p.m., in latitude 49.14 north, longitude 8.50…
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A seaman, Burned Bernard Sullivan, belonging to the barque Elm Grove, fell from the topmast of that vessel jut before the entered the Heads, and sustained a fracture of the skull and both arms. He is now in…
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A man named Thomas Chenorth, a line repairer, was ran over near the Wangaratta station, by the train from Melbourne to Wodenga, on Saturday evening last, and instataneously killed. His body was…
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An aged man, named Henry Andrews, a woodcutter, whilst aat Cobbier's Pinch, near his residences on the Rocky Point-road, at 6 o'clock yesterday after" noon, sustained a compound fracture of his right leg…
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A dreadful accident has occurred at Judenberg, in the valley of Mur, in Styria. The month of May is the pilgrimages. All over the country processions are got up to one or another of the…
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