Sad Case of Drowning
The city coroner, this morning, held an inquest at Balmer's Botany View Hotel, on the Cooke's River-road, respecting the death of a little girl, named Florence Godfrey, eight years old. The evidence…
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Coroner’s Inquest. Death by Drowning
THE District Coroner, (Mr. J. E. Bowden), held an inquest at the dwelling house of Mr. Joseph Luke, Seven Hills, on Wednesday, an the body of Arthur Foreman Luke, a child seven years of…
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OUR correspondent writes:—"I have just returned from the scene of the collision. It appears that the mineral train was the usual pick-up which starts every morning" from Bowenfels to Mount Victoria, its…
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ON Wednesday and Friday last John Randall appeared before Mr. T. A. Browne, P.M., and Mr. J. F. Plunkett, J.P., at the Police-court, charged with the manslaughter of Emily Jane M'Guire, on the 9th of June last, at the Home…
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A COLLISION that might have been attended with very, serious results indeed occurred at the Vale of Clwydd siding on the Western [?] on Monday morning…
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The City Coroner hold a second inquest at the same place concerning the death of a painter named John Boulter, of Roth[?]y Cottage, Piper-street, Wollahra, who, while painting the new buildings for the…
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ULLADULLA, Thursday.—The mail coach bound to Shoalhaven was capsized yesterday morning at Tyedeman's Hill. Mr. Handy Millard, one of the passengers, sustained a compound fracture of the…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—At half-past 7 this morning, while the children of Mr. Simpson of the Melbourne Boarding House in Hunter-street were in bed one of them, a little girl aged four…
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The Maori, which arrived at Auckland from the Wot Coast, on the 18th July, reports arriving at Big Bay on the morning of the 16th, where Fisher, a digger, reported that on the 13th June, when shooting…
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There bare been during the last few days a few accidents but not sufficient to record, beyond that which happened to Dr. John Harris, his buggy being run into by a car, but fortunately beyong the breaking of a shaft, no further injury…
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About 8 o'clock last Light, Senior-constable Abercrombie brought to the Infirmary a boy, named William Ainslie, aged fifteen years, of leave Cove-road. St. Leonards, who yesterday, while riding a…
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The City Coroner this morning held an inquest at the Infirmary respecting the death of Mr. John Molloy, who died yesterday afternoon from the effects of injuries received the night previous by being run…
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During the year 1877 there were seven fatal and 21 non-iatal accidents in the collieries of New South Wales. Of the fatal four out of the seven occurred from fallsof coal, the fifth from a fall of…
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The large number of accidents that are daily occurring from reckless driving is alarming. No less than seven instances have occurred since last Friday, and in most cases the unfortunate victims are in a…
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No alight consternation was occasioned about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, in Bridge-street, by the sight of a carriage and pair, belonging to his Excellency the Governor, tearing through that street at a…
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GRAFTON, Tuesday.—A man named Knight, employed at the company's sugar mill, was curbed bet ween the wharf and punt. He was removed to the hospital, but succumbed to his injuries…
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During the year 1877 there were seven fatal and 21 non-fatal accidents in the collieries of New South Wales. Of the fatal four out of the seven occurred from falls of…
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A woman with four children wag crossing at the Petersham railway station last night, and she did not observe an approaching through train, which suddenly came upon her, knocked down one of the children…
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SIR.—The dreadful accident which occurred this afternoon at the Petersham railway station will, I tr[?]st, be the means of awakening attention to the danger of allowing the level crossing on the railway line between Redfern and Parram[?]tta…
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The City-Coroner, yesterday afternoon, held an inquest at the Brecknock Arms, Lower George-street, respecting the death of a child named William Dynson, who was, on Monday afternoon, run over and…
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