Accidentally Drowned
The City Coroner this morning held an inquest at the Halfway-house Hotel, Botany-road, respecting the death of a child named William Robert Stanley Middlemas, aged one year months…
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Drowned in the Murray
ADELAIDE, Saturday.âThomas Rees, a young man, fell overboard from the steamer Mara[?]a into the Murray, near Manum, and was drowned…
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A very serious accident occurred last Saturday, on board the steamship Garonne, just when she was about to steam down the harbour on her voyage to London. As such as steam was got up one of the…
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COOKTOWN, Monday.—Mr. Hanran has received the following important items of news by the Prospect from New Guinea:—Eight of the original prospectors returned to the port,…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—The most lamentable accident that ever occurred in this district took place yesterday evening at the Lambton Colliery, by which the manager, Mr. Thomas Seymour, and…
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Newcastle, Wednesday.—After bearing the evidence of Mr. Short, Mr. Brurdley, sod the man at the whim, the inquest was adjourned until Friday, 10 enable the examiner of coal-fields to go down the abaft…
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With one or two exceptions the colony has been fairl free from crime. There was about the usual number of cases at the list Distuct Court, but none of them were of a very serious chancier. The police captured a housebreaker…
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On Tuesday evening last, as a lady with her little boy were waiting for the arrival of a steamer from the dock, the child, unnoticed, foil through an opening on the wharf into the water. Fortunately, he was seen…
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NEWCASTLE, Friday.—A strong north-west pale blew yesterday, causing a heavy sea. In the harbour a boat put off to go to the barque Strathden, with Mr. Sullivan, the boarding-master five sailors…
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OUR Newcastle correspondent writes:—The adjourned inquest at to the cause of the fatal accident at Lambton was [?]umed yesterday. Several witnesses were examined, among them being Mr. John…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—The most lamentable accident that ever occurred in this district took place yesterday evening at the Lambton Colliery, by which the manager, Mr. Thomas Seymour, and…
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WAGGA WAGGA, Tuesday.—An accident occurred last night, after the midnight train reached North Wagga Wagga Terminus. The coach, shortly attar leaving station, turned over, through the driver…
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The following directions are chiefly Dr. R. Silrester's method of restoring the apparently dead or drowned, and have been approved by the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society…
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BRISBANE, Friday,—The ship Freidersburg, with immigrants, has arrived, Md is in quarantine, having hid within eighteen days four cases of typhoid fever on board. There vere eighteen deaths on…
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OUR Newcastle correspondent writes:—The adjourned inquest as to the cause of the fatal accident at Lambton was resumed yesterday. Several witnesses were examined, among them being Mr. John…
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On Saturday afternoon, as a suburban train at 2.30 a.m. was leaving the Refern Railway Terminus a little girl, who arrived late, attempted to get into a carnage when the train was in motion, in the presence…
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The Hon. George Thornton, M.L.C., whose years, we believe, number more than the allotted three-score and ten, has distinguished himself by an, act of bravery that would do honour to one in the prime of I…
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ADELAIDE, Monday.—A paralytic old man was run over and decapitated at the port railway to-day.—A prostitute has committed suicide by taking laudanum…
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A serious railway accident, attended with loss of life, occurred at Pontypridd, Monmouthshire. The number of killed is 10, and wounded 20…
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QUITINDI, Wednesday.—A shocking accident occurred at a ballast hole near the Willow Tree to-day. A woman, whose name has not yet been obtained, was run over by the ballast trucks, and…
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