Death by Drowning
NOWRA, Friday.-A female child, about three years of age, daughter of Mr. Whiteman, of the Bridge Works, was drowned this afternoon in a well adjoining the house…
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Drowned near Randwick
The City Coroner hold an inquest yesterday after noon at the Brecknock Arms, on the body of James Morris, who was found drowned near one of the dams in course of construction near Randwick on Thursday…
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The Paterson correspondent. of the Maitland Mercury gives the following account of this sad fair:-- On the evening of November 20 a sad and fatal…
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WAGGA, Monday.—Yesterday an omnibus collided with a buggy belonging to Mr. Harvey Welman. Mrs. Welman and child were thrown out, but escaped unhurt. The pole of the…
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Amidst the general electioneering excitement which prevailed this morning near the polling booth in Fort-street, an accident occurred which was attended by serious danger. About 12 o'clock, whilst…
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CAMDEN, Tuesday.—An inquest was held yesterday upon the remains of a man named Reuben Bligh, found in Stoney Creek, Moreton Park, by Mr. George Starr, on November 30. He is…
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WEST MAITLAND, Wednesday.-An inquest on the body of Mrs. King, who was found dead in a water hole on Monday afternoon, was held yesterday. There was no evidence to show how…
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The City Coroner held an inquest on the body of a child named Florence Dolores Gardiner, aged one year and seven months, the other day, her death having resulted from being run over by a spring…
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A man named Stephen [?] resides at Wool[?], fell form the top of a Surry Hills bus last evening, at the corner of Market and Pitt-street, very severe injuries to his…
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On the 25th November, Mr. Holden, a well-known solicitor in Sydney, who was on a visit to some friends at Grosford, left there with his family and some friends, to the number of eleven, in a coach for Maitland, on their way to…
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The following telegram from Albany per mail has been received relative to the catastrophe to the [?] and 0. steamship Australia:" LONDON, OCTOBER 31…
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BRISBANE, Friday.-The Hon. John Douglas, C.M.G., while walking across his paddock on Thursday, struck his foot against a, stomp, and dislocated his ankle, and [?] the small bono…
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BRISBANE. Friday.-Mr. John Barclay, a very old resident of Breakfast Creek, near Brisbane, was thrown from his horse on Tuesday, and has since died from the injuries he received…
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WEST MAITLAND, Friday.-A farmer named Patrick Walsh was killed at Aberglassyn on Thursday evening. It appears that deceased and his brother (John Walsh) went to a lucerne…
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The following telegram from Albany per mail has been received relative to the catastrophe to the P. and O. steamship Australia:— "London, October 31…
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Two young men, accompanied by two ladies, bent on pleasure, started down the harbour about 9 o'clock yesterday morning in a boat they hoi hired from Mr.Millson, of Woolloomooloo. The weather was…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.-A man named Gobs, residing at Richmond, went up the tower of the new Town Hall, at Emerald Hill, now neatly finished. He took with him his son, aged four…
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At half-past 2 o'clock on Saturday an accident which threatened to be followed by serious consequences occurred at Flood's wool warehouses, Circular Quay. A waggon laden with wool was…
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At the meeting of the City Council on Friday morning, attention was drawn to the accident at the polling booth at the Flagstaff on Monday. Some strong expressions of opinion were made as to the…
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A most melancholy accident, which resulted in the death of two people, and which illustrated still further, if any additional proof were necessary, that sailing boats should be manned by at least…
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