Boy Drowned
Between 5 and 6 o'clock yesterday evening a youth named Robert Donald, aged about seventeen years, who resided with Mrs. M'Loughlin, of No. 61, Washington-street, off Susex-street, was accidentally…
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Collision at Sea.—Loss of Life
The Superintendent of Telegraphs advises us of the receipt of the following telegram: "The St. Kilda, three-masted schooner, reports having been in collusion on the 27th December with the barque Sea Gull,…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—An accident occurred on the Victorian railway, near Spencer-street Station, this morning. An engine and tender ran off the line into a short blind siding and tipped over…
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An incident, fatal in its results, and of a most unusual character, took place, on Saturday week, on board the Iserbrook, a brig of about 200 tons. The vessel was lying at Rowntree's Wharf, just after beings hauled out of the…
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On Monday morning last, says the WESTERN INDEPENDENT, as the twenty minutes past seven train was about starting for Orange, some person after lighting [?]s pipe threw the unextinguished match on the…
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STEAMSHIP Helvetia, arrived from Liverpool, reports having come into collision with and sunk the Coastguard cruiser Fanny, tender to Belleisle, about three miles north-east of the Tuskar, about…
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The City Coroner, on Thursday afternoon, held an inquest at the Brecknock Anne Hotel, Lower George-street, concerning the death of a young man named Robert Donald, aged 17 years, who wan drowned on…
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Three boys, while rambling along the water-holes on the Randwick-road, near the corner of Cleveland-street, yesterday afternoon, found the body of a man, whose name is at present unknown. The body had…
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The official report of the Board of Trade inquiry on the collision between the Bywell Castle and the Princess Alice is to the effect that the Princess Alice was to blame in every single particular, and that the Bywell Castle…
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WAGGA WAGGA, Monday.—Yesterday three boys were out shooting, and a boy named Dyson was shot accidentally by a boy named Worthy. He lingered for several hours and died…
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The A.S.N. Company's steamer Katoomba appears so have had rather a narrow escape from destruction in Moreton Bay an Wednesday night, while endeavouring to reads the [?]. She rounded Cape…
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One of the 35-ton guns on board the Thunderer, in the Gulf of Ismid, exploded on Thursday while a salute was being fired. The turret was completely destroyed, and seven men killed on the…
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About 4 or 5 o'clock this morning, the dead body of James Clark, third cook on board the steamship City of Adelaide, lying at Mort's Dock, Waterview Bay, was found by John Merritt, the second cook, in the…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—Two accidents occurred yesterday. A journeyman tailor named Larry Wilson was knocked down and run over by a cart in Market-street. It is, however, thought…
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WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.—A man. named Cannon, whilst working at the bottom of a well in Catherine-street, was sending ap some earth, when the chain broke,and the bucket, filled with sand,…
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The Southern Mail train, early this , morning, left the rails at Rocky Ponds, near Goalburn, and the mails were delayed five hours in consequence. The train was running slowly at the time, consequently…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—A serious accident happened to the s s. Macedon yesterday afternoon when leaving Cape Moreton for Sydney. It was blowing strong at the time, end there was a heavy sea on,…
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The Melbourne Steamship Company's steamer Macedon, bound for Sydney, grounded on Venus Shoal yesterday at 3 p.m., in a heavy sea, but got off after bumping heavily for. ten minutes, the sea making a…
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DENILIQUIN, Saturday.—George Matt, aged nineteen, was drowned last evenings in the river at North Deniliquin. He appeared to have been seized with cramp, and suddenly sank. The body…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—It has been ascertained, on examination of the machinery of the steamer Macedon, that her main [?]haft is broken…
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