Sad Result of an Accident
ALBURY, Saturday.—Mr. Wm. Moffitt, teller of the Bank of New South Wales, who was accidentally wounded last week through dropping hie revolver on the floor when taking it out of the drawer in…
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The Fatal Boat Accident at Newcastle
A melancholy boating accident happened off Newcastle on Saturday last, which has now been proved to have resulted, beyond any doubt, in the sacrifice of the lives of five persons…
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Another of those terrible mining disasters which have of late years given such unhappy notoriety to the Rhondda Valley district occurred late on the night of January 13, at Dinas Colliery. Dinas is one of the oldest colliery districts…
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WE learnt by telegram, from Albury last Saturday, that on the previous afternoon, just before the closing hour for the banks, a suspicious-looking charaotar entered the Bank of New South Wales…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday.—A bone of a leg from the hip downwards, denuded of flesh, having on it a boot and sock, was discovered on the beach on Saturday afternoon. The boot has been identified…
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A magisterial inquiry was held on Saturday morning by Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., at the Brecknock Arms Hotel, Lower George-street, concerning the death of one Patrick Curran, a railway employee, who was…
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THE most serious steamboat collision that has taken place on out coast happened last night between Use Melbourne Steam Company's steamer Barrabool (Captain Clark) end the steamer Bonnie Dundee, bound to the Manning River. Five…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A miner has been found drowned in a shallow shaft at Copper Reid, and a selector, at the same place, has committed suicide by taking a dose of strychnine.—The Peak…
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MURRURUNDI, Wednesday.—Mr. Winter and Miss Gordon, while attempting to cross the river in a buggy at Carrol, were swept down the stream by the force of the current, and it is considered…
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Another very painful coasting disaster has to be [?]dded to the already long black list. The Barrabool (s), which arrived in Port Jackson yesterday morning from Newcastle, brought the extremely sad intelligence that…
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THE circumstances attending the late fatal collision between the steamers Barrabool and Bonnie Dundee have been the topic of public comment to-day, and a wide-spread feelings of sympathy is manifest at the melancholy loss of…
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The City Coroner yesterday held an inquest at the Infirmary, respecting the death of John Taylor, who died in the Infirmary on the 8th, from the effects of injuries received on the 27th ultimo at…
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On Saturday last an inquest was held by the coroner for Parramatta (Mr. Bowden) at the Garihaldi Hotel, Hunter's Hill, upon the body of one John Conduit, aged 64 years, an old artillery pensioner, and resident…
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The City Coroner, yesterday afternoon, commenced at his office an inquest on the body of Mrs. Brown, whose death was caused by the collision of the steamers Barrabool and Bonnie…
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The inquest on the body of Mrs. Sarah Brown, one of the victims of the collision between the steamships Bonnie Dundee and Barrabool, was commenced yesterday afternoon before Mr. Shiell, the City Coroner, and a jury of 12. At…
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MORUYA, Thursday.—A fatal accident occurred on board the steamer John Penn on Monday, William May, the second engineer, being shot dead while repairing a gun. Not knowing that it was…
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Between 9 and 10 o'clock, this morning, an accident occurred to Lady Robertson, which might have proved much more serious than it did had it not been for the great presence of mind of her Ladyship. It…
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DENILIQUIN, Thursday.—Mr. Duncan Campbell, late manager of Noorong Station, was found dead on Noorong Run on the 2nd March. He was apparently killed through being thrown from his…
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In accordance with an announcement in our Wednesday's lssue. Messrs. S. J. Davison. J.P.. W. C. Robertson; T. Norton, W. Fyfe, and 8. Murtough, left Sydney in the steamer Mystery, chartered by Mr. Alexander, son of Mr…
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A man was found drowned at Seven Hills on the 7th instant, and at the inquest held on the body an open verdiat of found drowned was returned. The body has not yet been identified. It was apparently…
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