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Early on Friday a poor fellow, a contractor in dam-sinking on Warbreccan run, aged 28 years, and named Daniel Munro, met with fatal injuries by a fall of earth, and died about three miles from Deniliquin,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday afternoon a lad named William Davis, aged from 12 to 13 years, met his death by accidental drowning at Manly Beach. It appears that young Davis, with two other boys, were bathing on the Ocean…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday evening (says the Ballarat Star), while Mr. Hagar and family, of the Criterion hotel, Doveton-street, were making joyful preparation for the New Year, their merriment was changed to grief by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A sad accident occurred on Wednesday morning. Mrs. Ward, a widow, residing in Mundy-street, was being driven in a buggy to Mr. Twynam's, at the Old Township, and when near the gate one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About three o'clock yesterday afternoon, a man named Joen M'Mahon, aged 18 years, residing with his parents in Grose-street, Glebe, was drowned while bathing with two other boys in a waterhole in a waterhole in Johnson's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Coroner this morning, held an inquest at Ashfield, teaching the death of a boy named John Dawson Deering, aged fire years and six months, son of John W. Deering, Government Surrey or at Ashfield…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Coroner, yesterday, held an inquest at Baukstown, concerning the death of a man named John Walter Roberts, who was found in a dying state early last Wednesday morning on the Liverpool road, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bermingham Jack, of the Canadian Lead, was instrumental a few days ago in causing the death of his own child. It appears that he discharged a gun at an iguana, and that the contents were unfortunately lodged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Between 1 and 2 o'clock yesterday morning a boy named Joseph Jacobs, aged 10 years, son of Moses Jacobs, of Nithsdale-street, Surry Hills, was knocked down by a horse and van in n pitt-street, driven by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From Eden the Bega Gazette hears of an accident providentially not attended with fatal consequences. About a for night ago a little girl, named Isabella Strangwidge, was trying to catch a goat on the edge of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On October 30, a catastrophe occurred on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Brier[?]eld, near Burnl[?]y, by which three mon were killed and several persons badly injured. A goods train from Skipton had just finished…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Hurunui, an emigrant ship, bound for New Zealand, which has detained at Plymouth for several weeks, in consequence of an outbreak of scarlet fever on board, left that port for her…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Tuesday last, Mr. Charles Field, of Morpeth, met with a very serious accident, which resulted in a compound fracture of his right leg. The unfortunate man(according to the Maitland Mercury), was engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We learn from the Scrutineer that, on Thursday, an accident happened to a young man named John Ryan, whereby he had his thing bone broken. It appears that he was engaged, near the Kangaroo Valley…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday afternoon, during an interval in the day's amusements, an impromptu race was got up by several young men. They had, says the Clarence Examiner, not long entered on the contest when one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE City Coroner the morning held tn inquest at Henry Drew Martyn's public-house, called the Sydney Arma, in Castlerough-street, touching the death of a boy named Arthur William Chabot, aged two years and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly before noon yesterday, as a lad named Hanry Moyse was riding a horse out of Teminn-street, off Regent-street, near the Railway Station, when a boy named Joseph Joslin, aged three years, ran…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One of those painful casualties so frequently occurring from children playing with machinery, occurred (according to the Bathurst Independent), on Thursday last to a little son of Mr. Tremaine, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On October 30, a catastrophe occurred on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Brierfield, near Buraley, by which three men were killed and several persons badly injured. A goods train from Skipton had just finished…
Continued on Trove, page 55 →On Saturday evening, 6th instant, as accident occurred et Maitland Point, on the Rocky, terminating fatally. It appears, from the Armidale Express, that a child of the name of Thomas Jones, aged two years…
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