Glenelg Pier—Shocking Accident
ADELAIDE, Saturday.—The proposal to build a breakwater at Brighton, below Glenelg, in deep water, near the shore, for ocean, earners, would meceasitate the construction of a costly railway…
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Latest Telegrams. Fatal Accident
BODALLA, Tuesday.—A young sawyer, named Johnstone, was killed accidentally this morning, at Trunkelabella, by the falling of a log, a very few yards from the place where Mr. Patrick…
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A railway collision occurred at Sitting bourne, in Kent, by which eight persons were killed and thirty wounded…
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GRAFTON, Thursday.—A seasonable rain has set in, and is likely to last. It was much wanted.— Mr. Lardner, district coroner, has returned from Dalmorton, where he held an inquest on the…
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YEsterday, at he [?]recknock Hotel, Lower George-street, a magisterial inquiry was held, in the absence of the coroner, by Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., as to the death of Henry Fletcher, aged 26 yeas, a…
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About 1 o'clock this morning a man earned Patrick Hall, residing at Maitland Place died it is believed from the effected of injuries to his head accidentally received about a month ago. Deceased had…
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A painful casualty occurred about noon yesterday at the railway station to a man named Robert Kyle, aged thirty-three. Kyle was engaged unloading a railway goods van, and while so engaged some…
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MUDGEE, Tuesday.—Mr. James Easy, publican, was swept away and drowsed in a flood near this place yesterday, He was crossing a swollen creek near Two-mile Flat in a buggy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Intelligence [By Electric Telegraph.] Our Special Telegram. (From Our London Correspondent.) the Late Accident on the Thames London, September 9
The bodies of 503 persons drowned by th[?] Princess Alice disaster have been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Our Special Telegram. (From Our London Correspondent.) the Late Accident on the Thames. London, September 11
The Australian Cricketers have subscribed £100 to the fund for the relief of sufferers by the Princess Alice disaster…
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GRAFTON, Friday.—A lad six years old, son of Mr. M'Alpin, proprietor of the foundry here, was drowned while oathing in the river with two other boys of about the same age. At the inquest a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Our Special Telegram. (From Our London Correspondent.) Colliery Accident. London, September 11
A fearful colliery accident has occurred at Ebbw Vale. The number of killed is 300; 80 were rescued…
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THE Chief Inspector of Mines has furnished his report on the working of the Regulation of Mines Statute 1873 during 1877. Mr. Couchman begins with the statement that, " although the number of…
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MURRUMBURRAH, Monday.—Mr. Harris, of the firm of Messrs. Cohan, Harris, and Co., and Mr. L. H. Cohen, representing Cohen Brothers, narrowly escaped drowning while crossing Demindrille…
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A singularly painful accident, which was attended by the death by drowning of one person, and the very narrow escape of a second from the same fate, occurred at the Circular Quay yesterday…
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The steamer Commodore, when following the race, tramped on the rocks at Farnell's Point, about halt way down the course. The concussion was so great that a number of persons were thrown from…
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About half-past 9 o'clock, on Sunday night, the North Shore steam ferryboat came alongside Circular Quay; and on the passengers were about landing, Mr. Edwards, the delegate from the free selectors of…
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Constable Hughes, who me injured some time back in the abdomen by a Kick from a man named David White is in a bad condition, his lower extremities having become paralysed. It is very much…
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A boy named George Walker, aged 12 years, residing with his parents at 85, Sussex-street, was knocked down about 6 o'clock last night, in Sussex-street, by a runaway horse and cart, and sustained a…
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The Lord Mayor has opened a fund for the relief of the sufferers by the recent colliery explosion in Monmouthshire…
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