Accidents, &c
Arthur Gordon, aged 14, living at Paddingon , cut his foot yesterday with an oysterneil as he was bathing. Maggie Spence , aged 18 living at Alexandria, cut her hand yesterday by falling on a piece…
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Rail way Accident. MUSWELLBROOK
A goods train ran off the line near here on Thursday night, and the engine-drivers had a very narrow escape. The train, after leaving the rails, rushed into the embankment, where it…
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Respecting the case of the man who was buried in a quicksand at Echuca a few days since, the local correspondent of the Melbourne Daily Telegraph says:--"On Friday last a man named Calvin was…
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The Muswellbrook correspondent of the Maitland Mercury, writing under date Friday last, says:--"As the 10.30 p.m. goods train was proceeding on its journey last night there was a very…
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About 7 o'clock yesterday evening a child named Alexander Marshall, seven years of age, the son of Peter Marshall, greengrocer, Harris-street, Pyrmnont, was bathing, in company with several other…
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A fatal accident Happened at Port stepnens yesterday. Four men, employed by the Port Stephens Fishing Company, left in a boat to gather bark, and were capsized in a squall…
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William Hunter, George Wadley, George Sherman and Frank Jones, fisherman, from Bluff Head, at present employed fishing for the Fishing Company at Nelson's Bay, went up the Cooral River…
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Mr. Woolf, storekeeper, of Taree, was accidentally killed at Camden Haven yesterday by falling out of his buggy…
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A terrible boiler explosion occurred at Hungerford's flour mill, Baerami, near Denman, in the Hunter district. A fresh hand was engaged to drive the engine, and he lot nearly all the water out of the boiler, which exploded. The…
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Alphonse Bechet, proprietor of the warehouse in Barrack-direct which was burned on the morning of the 11th ultimo, is now on remand charged with wilfully setting fire to the premised with intent to…
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yesterday about 6 p.m. on some boys were fishing in the Macquarie about one mile above the township, they saw the body of a man floating in the water. The police were communicated with…
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Alderman Gross, of Wickham, telegraph superintendent, whilst superintending the uncoiling of a bundle of wire yesterday near the Xetr-eastle Court-house, met with a serious injury…
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Rev. Charles Kingsmiill, Church of England, Gunning, was alighting from his buggy, to- day, when the horse started, causing that rev. gentle…
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Our readers will learn with regret of a dreadful fatal accident which befel Mr. William Langford, the well-known beat and yacht builder, this morning, at Pyrmont. Mr. Lanpford's residence and…
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An inquest was held at the Observer Tavers, to-day, before the City Coroner, Mr. H. Shiell, on the body of a woman Darned Mary Ann Cooke, aged about 40 years, a native of this colony, whose dead…
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We regret to hare to announce the death of the Rev. William John Kidd (rector of Didsbury and rural dean), which took place on Friday night under very sad circumstances. Mr, Kidd, who…
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On Tuesday, December 21, a railway accident, resulting in instant death of two men and injury to several others, occurred on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Sough Tunnel, near…
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