A Child Drowned. BATHURST
Yesterday afternoon a boy, named Hobbs, residing is Stewart-street, in drowned through falling into the river where it joins the creek at the bottom of William-street. The sad…
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Fatal Accident to a Miner. NEWCASTLE
A fatal accident occurred yesterday, in the Lambton pit, to James Dorrity, an old and experienced miner. Dorrity was working a seam of coal, when several tons of it fell upon him,…
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A terrible crime was committed at Dubbo, on the evening of November 12. A woman, named Wilkie, deliberately shot at and wounded Mr. John Oxley Norton, Police Magistrate. It seems that, the woman, who resided at…
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During the very strong south-west gale that was blowing yesterday morning, the Balmain steamer Cygnet and a ketch came into collision in Darling Habour. The ferry steamer was on…
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A collision occurred off Balmain at about 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning, a [?] running into the ferry steamer Cygnet. The ketch was beating up Darling Harbour, and was tasking when she came…
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San Francisco, Cal., September 17.—A despatch from Virginia City says: "An accident at the Consolidated Imperial mine last night resulted in the death of nine men, and one other…
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A melancholy case of drowning occurred last night at Balmain. Mr. Hartman, a bootmaker, who resides in Rosser-street, was at business during the day, and on returning home about half-past 7 last…
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Yesterday evening the steamship Glenelg while outward bound to Adelaide,co[?]ed with the D[?]nfield, which was leaving the A.S.N. Co.'s [?], Darling Harbour, for their works at Py[?]. The…
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Montreal, September 24,1880.-The captain of the barge Davis, Alphonse Caron by name, was arrested to-day on a charge of murdering his brother, Jean Baptiste Caron. It appears that…
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A collision of steamers, the result of which would probably have been most disastrous if it look place outside the Heads, occurred in the harbour yesterday evening. As it was, considerable…
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LONDON, 25th November.—A terrible collision took place between two steamers off the island of Spezzia, belonging to Greece, in the Gulf of Nauplia. Two…
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Intelligence has been received from Spizzia, Gulf of Genua, reporting that the Messageries, steamer, came into collision with another vessel near that port, and sunk soon after striking with…
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Yesterday evening a collision took place in the harbour between two steamers—the Glenelg, outward bound to Adelaide, and the Duckenfield, which was steaming from the A.S.N. Co.'s Wharf to the company's works at Py[?]mont. Both vessels were seriously…
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Intelligence has been received from Spezzia, in the Gulf of Genoa, that a Messageries Maritime Company's steamer has been in collision with another vessel near that spot, and…
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A sad accident occurred yesterday at Newbridge, to a railway telegraph operator named Charles Cross. He was assisting to do some shunting, when by some means his foot was caught under…
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A horrible catastrophe has occurred on the Ebro, at Logrono, a town of 15,000 inhabitants. The military pontooners had laid a bridge across the river, which was much swollen by the late…
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On Thursday evening a collision took place in the harbour between two steamers—the Glenelg, outward bound to Adelaide, and the Duckenfield, which was steaming from the A. S. N. Co.'s Wharf to the company's works at Pyrmont. Both vessels were seriously…
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LONDON, 25th November.—A terrible collision, took place between, two steamers off the island of Spezzia, belonging, to Greece, in the Gulf of Nauplia. Two…
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A dreadful accident occurred on the railway works extension, Tamworth to Uralia, on Monday last, at Jamison's Creek, though the explosion of dynamite in a blast. One man, named…
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The railway accident season has set in rather severely this year by the running away of the Flying Scotchman, near Berwick, and the similar and still more disastrous derailment of the…
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