Serious Accident
On Saturday afternoon, a serious accident accident on board the steamer Bulli, which is cooling the ship Tamerlane, lying near Pinchgut. A man named Thomas Lamb, driving the fore-steam which,…
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Gun Accidents. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—The Herald of Friday announces another fatal gun accident at Port Macquarie; and last week, two others were recorded, occurring (I have no doubt), as also most of the other similar sad events, from the very prevalent but…
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An inquest was held this morning, at the Observer Tavern, Lower George-street, before the City Coroner, touching the death of a man named Michael Ryan, who was found drowned in Darling…
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Yesterday afternoon, a little boy named John Gilfillan, aged 4½ years, living with his parents on the Surry Hills, had a very narrow escape from being killed. The little fellow was playing about in the…
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THE NEWCASTLE CHRONICLE reports tliat a fearful accident occured on Friday afternoon. At about half-past 4 o'clock, at the workings of the Waratash Coal…
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Yesterday afternoon a serious accident happened to a middle aged man named Frederick Steem, employed by Messrs. Woods, Shortland, &Co., whilst he was driving his cart from Lord's Tannery, past the…
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Shortly before 11 o'clock this morning a boy named, William Hanson fell off a scaffold erected at the far end of Mort's Dry Dock, Balmain, to tho bottom of the dock, a distance of 25 feet, and sustained…
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Alderman Thomas Carty, J.P; of Drogheda, died some time ago in the possession of enormous wealth, in his lifetime estimated at £300,000. While living he acknowledged no relatives, and…
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A'bus accident occurred this morning in king-street, close to Pitt-street A Woolloomooloo bus, descending the hill, ran into the port between Head's jewaller's shep and Potter's drug stere, splintering the…
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AM accident occurred in Wall[?]end Colliery, by which a miser named Reger Clegho[?] lost his life, and a lad with when he was working was geriously injured. It appears that the two were…
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A magisterial inquiry Was held touching the death of Ann Mesingarb, which occurred on Weddesday evening last very suddenly. From the evidence of her husband, Thomas Masingarb, it…
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THE NEWCASTLE CHRONICLE reports that a fearful accident occurred on Friday afternoon. At about half-past 4 o'clock, at the workings of the Waratah Coal…
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About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon an accident which might have been attended with more serious consequences happened at the branch of the Royal Mint, in Macquarie-street, to Mr. H. L. Nelson, the…
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Shortly before noon to-day, a ladder need in the repairs being effected at the Registrar Generals office gave way, and two men named William White and Thomas A[?]bdown were pre[?]pitated to the ground,…
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A serious 'bus accident occurred yesterday after now, at 3 o'clock, to the Darling Point 'btu. Two ladies, Mrs. H. Woolnough and Mrs. Smith, of Manly Beach, had taken their seats, in the absence of the…
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CONSIDERABLE excitement and alarm was caused on Thursday morning, soon after the Maitland's departure for Sydney, by the firing of the well-known signal gun, denoting a vessel in distress. In a few minutes hundred of people were seen wending their way…
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SATURDAY, David Roberts, bookbinder, of Sydney, met with his death by falling out of a window into the yard, a distance of nearly thirty feet…
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A bout half-past 12 o'clock on Saturday, a young sum named John Golding, aged 19, employed by Messrs. J. G. Hanks and Co., of George-street, [?] a fracture of his right [?] from a kick by a horse…
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An alarming accident happened at the Jerusalem Chamber, Cowper's-court, on March 2, just between 2 and 3 o'clock, when most of the leading merchants of the city had assembled beneath the dome of the building, to the…
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This morning, as the coppersmiths employed at Messrs. Mline Brothers, Suasex-street in constructing the large copper wern for the Colonial sugar Company, were filling one of the large pipes with melted…
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