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Yesterday evening a slater named Bell met with a very serious accident whilst working at the Callan Park Asylum for the insane. It appears that he had just finished the slating of a portion of the roof and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News has been received that the steamer which ran into Flinders on Friday was the German collier Titus, bound from Newcastle to Melbourne, laden with coal. When she ran in the sea was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A serious accident happened at Calllan Park Asylum for the Insane yesterday evening. It appears that a man named Bell, a slater, who has been employed on the buildings for some time, after…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The utility of the art of swimming, as a means for saving life, has seldom been more practically or splendidly demonstrated than it was yesterday, during the passage of the steamer Defiance from Sydney to Brisbane Water. When…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →AN inquest was held; at Kellâs Emu Hotel; on Friday last, at 4.30 p.m., before the District Coroner (Mr. J. E. Bowden) and .a jury of twelve, on the body of Joseph Whiting, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. David Fraser, of Cooma Station, near Narrabri, died on Monday evening from the effects of having drunk some carbolic acid in mistake for wine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Naples has towed the B.I.S.N. Company's steamer to Thursday Island, under salvage, and the B.I.S.N. Company's steamer Waroonga is towing the Teviotdale from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A serious collision occurred in the Mary River this morning. The steamer Ranelagh was proceeding down the river, when rounding a sharp bend she met the Queensland coming up. The Ranelagh struck the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →John Anderson, aged 65, a shipwright, residing in Mill-street, Pyrmont, met with a fatal accident do Tuesday. He was engaged in caulking a schooner lying at the Patent Slip Wharf, Pyrmont,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A man named John Clark, who is dangerously ill, was being driven into Albury in a buggy for admission to the hospital. The driver dismounted to pick up his whip, when the horse began to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A man, whose name is unknown, was brought to the Hospital about 7.40 last night, suffering from somewhat serious injuries. Conquest, the person who brought him to the Hospital, stated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A serious collision occurred in the Mary River this morning. The steamer Ranelagh was proceeding down the river, when rounding a sharp bend she met the Queensland coming up. The Ranelagh struck the…
Continued on Trove, page 223 →Yesterday, Thomas Kerins, aged 21, a labourer, employed at Alderson and Sons' factory, Bourke-street, while putting a belt on one of the machines, felt his right side coming in violent contact with a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →John Bunn, a miner at Lambton, who was recently injured by a fall of coal, had his leg amputated yesterday, and died last night. An inquest will be held to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A sad accident happened at Cobar yesterday. A young man named John Combelloch, a nephew of Mr. F. Foy, of the Club-house Hotel, was run over by a dray loaded with wood. His horse…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News has been received that the steamer which ran into Flinders on Friday was the German collier Titus, bound from. Newcastle to Melbourne, laden with coal. When she ran in the sea was…
Continued on Trove, page 205 →THE mines inspector of Queensland, Mr. Fryer, in his report for 1882, speaks out plainly concerning mining accidents. He commences, says the " Capricornian," by referring to the mining accidents that…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The steamer Rotomahana whilst on her way to Bluff Harbour, struck Waipapapa Point, at about the same place where the Tararua met with a disaster some time ago. Fortunately the weather was fine when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An examination which has been made of the steamer Rotomahana, which struck on a reef at Waipapapa Point whilst on her way to Bluff Harbour, discloses the fact that the vessel sustained very serious damage…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An inquest was held yesterday afternoon at the Prince Alfred Hospital on the body of Edward Pellew Suggate, who died there on Saturday. The Rev, Dr M'Millan saw the man in the water near…
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