Boating Accident and Rescue
An accident occurred on Sunday morning in the harbour which, but for the timely assistance of Messrs. Harry and Fred Leston, might, have resulted fatally. Two persons in a light skiff were…
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Accidentally Drowned
GOULBURN, Wednesday.—Mr. Betts, the district coroner, has held on inquest at Budgong on the body of a lad 11 years of age, named Charles Robert Norman Fearne, who was found…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—A young man named Miller, of the barque River Severn, met with a serious accident at Newcastle, last night, by falling from the yard to the deck of the vessel…
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The City Coroner held a second inquest at the Brecknock Arms, Lower George-street, respecting the death of a vagrant named William Lynch, aged 60 years, whose dead body was found floating in Johnstone's…
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An inquest was held before the city coroner, at the Brecknock Arms, Circular Quay, upon the body of a man named William Lynch, found in the waters of Johnson's Bay on Thursday morning. The body was…
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The association in Park-street, known as the four A's, is rapidly extending its beneficient operations, and proofs are not wanting that the many advantages it offers are becoming daily…
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COOLAH, Saturday.—Mr. Brown, of Caigan, while on his way to Coolah, in crossing the Queensborough run, had a narrow escape from drowning. He drove into a tank on the run to…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Early this morning the barque Eden, bound for Shanghai, via Wollongong, collided with the steamer Claud Hamilton, inward bound from Newcastle with…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday.—A seaman named Martin, while attempting to board his vessel, the American barque P. J. Carlton, lying at No. 12 jetty, Bullock Island, on Saturday at midnight…
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INFORMATION was received in Newcastle early on Saturday morning to the effect that a man named David Herne, in the employ of Messrs. Goodsir and Brown, of the sawrmills, Lake M'Quaric,…
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A collision occurred in the Bay early on Saturday morning between the steamer Claud Hamilton, from Newcastle, and the barque Eden, outward bound, for Shanghai. The collision occured about ten miles…
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A serious accident occurred yesterday to a well-known and much respected resident of the city, Mr. George Preddy. It appears that shortly after noon he was being driven along Sussex-street by his son,…
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An accident happened in the harbour yesterday, by which Frederick Grasse, the captain's steward on board the German man-of-war Bismarck, lost his life. The poor fellow had been on…
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ULMARRA, Wednesday.—The Colonial Sugar Company's tug boat Iluka, ran down Mr. Thomas Bawdon's steam launch Lillie, near the black buoy, close to the crossing at the Clarence Heads,…
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Another shipping disaster (says the Melbourne Daily Telegraph) has occurred in Hobson's Bay, making the third within the past week. On Monday last the steamship Wotonga, berthed at the railway pier, Sandridge, was found…
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The dead body of a man was taken out or the water at the Circular Quay to-day, and removed to the morgue, where it awaits an inquest. The Fuil Court, consisting of Mr. Justice Faucett…
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The city coroner, this morning, held an inquest at the Brecknock Arms, Lower George-street, respecting the death of Arthur Clinton, whose dead body was found by John Allen, a lamptrimmer, on board…
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INFORMATION was received in Newcastle early on Saturday morning to the effect that a man named David Herne, in the employ of Messrs. Goodsir and Brown, of the sawmills, Lake Macquarie,…
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A boat, containing a waterman named Robert Falconer and Mr. Spain, solicitor, of the firm Spain and Sly, while crossing the harbour on Thursday evening, was capsized, owing, it is said, to the…
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During the heavy gale blowing last night, Mr. Spain, solicitor, of this city, was being rowed across the harbour to North Shore, when the boatman, caught a "crab" and…
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