Painful Read Accident
A van-driver named Thomas Harvey, residing as North Shore, met with a very painful accident yesterday. He was driving down Macquarie-street, when he fell out of his van on to the road. Before…
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Fatal Street Accident
An inquest was held yesterday at Redfern by the City Coroner, Mr. H. Shiell, on the body of a little girl named Ethel Catherine Louise Waters, who died on Saturday afternoon from injuries caused by a cart…
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John Fenton, aged 8 years, persisted in riding on the step of a 'bus gratis, in George-street, yesterday evening. The driver "whipped behind" and little Fenton trying to escape the lash fell off…
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A good deal of excitement and commotion was caused in Oxford-street yesterday morning by a tram accident which occurred at the intersection of Orown-street. It appears that a man named George Wilson, who carries…
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A correspondent at Liverpool informs us that about about 3 p.m. on Sunday last the residents of the town became somewhat alarmed upon it being rumoured that a boy was drowned in the fresh water part of the…
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The City Coroner resumed the inquiry, at his chambers, yesterday morning, into the circumstances attending the death of the late Mr. Thomas Robert Lamb, the collision which occurred in the harbour between the…
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The inquiry into the circumstances attending the collision between the Dreamland and Glenelg last month, terminated yesterday. It will be remembered that by the collision the crew of the Dremland were…
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THE District Coroner (Mr. J. E. Bowden) held an inquest at the Government Asylum Liverpool, pool, on Monday last, before a jury of twelve, on the body of a youth named Ezzie Paggie…
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The inquiry into the circumstances attending the collision between the Boomerang and the Commodore, which occurred on the night of December 27, when the litter vessel was towing the ship City of Nankin up to the…
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A very melancholy circumstance, resulting in the accidental infliction of serious injury to Robert Cox, a fine lad, aged about 15 years, son of Mr. D. J. Cox, an old and highly respected resident of Oakhampton,…
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By the arrival of the schooner Renard from the Solomon Islands yesterday, Mr. Charles Carlos, chief officer of the schooner Atlantic, was a passenger coming to Sydney for medical treatment, having on…
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The City Coroner, Mr.H.Shiell, on Monday afternoon held an inquest on the body of Mr. Henry Sanders, who was killed by being thrown from his horse on Sunday, by which fall his skull was fractured at the…
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At about 3 p.m. yesterday, while motor No. 32 was drawing two tramcars from the Glebe along Elizabeth-street south, the piston rod of the motor broke (while the engine was opposite…
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By the schooner Renard, which arrived yesterday from Santa Anna, Solomon Islands, came Mr. Charles Carlos, recently mate of the schooner Atlantic, who accidentally shot himself with a Snider rifle on the 26th of last…
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A very painful accident befel Charles Carlos, chief officer of the schooner Atlantic, in the Solomon group. It appears that the vessel named was at Lango, on the north-west coast of Guardelcanar…
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Dr. G. P. M. Woodward, F.R.C.S.I., delivered the last of the course of lectures to the railway employees, at the Chippendale schoolroom, Regent-street, last night. The attendance, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather,…
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Henry Arhibald, a Lambton miner, was badly hurt by a fall of coal which pinned him to the ground nearly and hour before a passing wheeler discovered him and raised an alarm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident to the Melbourne Express Train. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Goulburn
An accident happened to the express train from Melbourne this morning. It appears that when approaching Harden station the passengers were rudely awakened by a series of heavy shocks, followed shortly by the…
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The three-masted schooner Chittoor has gone ashore at the extreme end of Marlow Reef, off Edithburgh. The steamer Warooka is going out to her assistance. The Chittoor was en route from Port Adelaide to Port…
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The barque Fusilier, bound from this port to Adelaide, is reported to have gone ashore on the coast between the Rangitikei and Turakina rivers, during the late gale. The crew are safe…
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