A Shocking Accident
WAGGA WAGGA, Monday.—Robert William Hutton, a young man, riding a headstrong horse was violently thrown against a tree yesterday evening at a spot About five miles from this town…
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Found Drowned
The City Coroner hold an inquest yesterday, at the observer Tavern, lower George-street, respecting the death of Charles Lee. whose body was found floating in Johnston's Bay. Deceased was aged 40 years…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—The schooner Storm Bird, from Sydney to Maryborough, put into this port yesterday. Captain Currie had sustained a fracture of several ribs through being knocked…
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A GENTLEMAN who has just returned from the Clarence Heads (reports the GRAPTON ARGUS), has furnished us with a few particulars as to the narrow escape of five persons form being drowned. It appears…
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There was a great smash in Pitt-street this morning, through a horse holting with a cartload of groceries from the Civil Service Co-operative Store. The vehicle was being driven at a quiet pace in the…
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A fetal railway occurrence took place last night at the level crossing about 50 yards from the Burwood railway station. About twenty-five minutes past 5 o'clock a man, name unknown. hurrledly passed…
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The City [?] day at the Observer [?] Lower George-street held an inquest respecting the c[?] attending the death of the man name [?] who was run over at Burwood by the…
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The body of the man killed at the Burwood railway sta[?] has been identified. Yesterday afternoon a ladylike young woman, with on in[?] in her arms, was shown the cloths of deceased;…
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Yesterday morning, about 10 o'clock, on accident which might have been attended with serious consequences happened on the Botany-road, Redfern, to s 'bus driven by a man named O'Connell. It…
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A number of boys were walking down King-street this morning, about 9 o'clock, when one of their number, a little fellow about 8 years of age, was knocked down by a cab, and it was thought by those…
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ONE of the most painful accidents that we have yet had to record, and by which a resident of Parramatta lost his life, happened. at the Burwood station on Tuesday…
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THE City Coroner on Thursday at the Observer Tavern Lower George-street, held an inquest respecting the circumstances attending the death of a man, name unknown, who was run over at Burwood by the…
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A child named Eliza Jones, aged [?] years, was found drewsed in a [?] Saturday afternoon, on John Burtod's pre[?] at Bexley, hear [?]rrickville. De[?]sed was the half caste illegitimate…
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The City Coroner yesterday afternoon held a magisterial enquiry at the Forest, Hill, Barley Post Office, near Cohterbury, respecting the death of a little girl named Elizabeth Jones, aged 4 years. The…
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A melancholy accident by which two persons (immigrants, recently arrived), lost their lives occurred in the Clarence River, at the foot of Oliver-street, Grafton, on Sunday evening. It appears (says…
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BATHURST, Wednesday.—There are about a dozen perilous in the town suffering from typhoid fever.—On Sunday the polios magistrate met with a serious accident. He fell from a ladder…
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A telegram has just been received from Bourke, by Mr. Joseph. Becker, to the effect that the Avoca enagged and sank thirty miles below Wilcannia. She was fully loaded at the time of the accident, and her…
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The city coroner held an inquest a[?] Ashfield respecting the death of a girl named Sarah Ayers, aged 12 years who about noon on Thursday was found drowned in a well on the premises of Anthony…
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MR and MRS ALLAEDYCE of the Freeman’s Reach Public School, had a very narrow escape from being killed on last Saturday afternoon. They were proceeding home from Windsor in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Boat Accident near the Clarence Heads. Noble Conduct of a Young Girl
A GENTLEMAN who has just returned from the Clarence Heads (reports the GRAFTON AKGUS), has furnished us with a few particulars as to the narrow escape of five persons from being drowned. It appears…
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