Another Accident
Sydney Letterson was conveyed in an insensible condition to the Sydney Hospital, yesterday, by a police constable, suffering from a severe wound on his lip, which bled most profusely, inducing an…
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Serious Accident
Daniel Donaldson, aged 35, a coal lumper, met with a serious accident yesterday afternoon. He was at work on one of Messrs. Howard Smith and Sons' coal lighters, when he fell down the hold. On being…
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An accident which has occasioned great damage unscarred yesterday morning in Lower George-street. A Chinaman named Ah You was driving a cart belonging to Yang Lee, of Botany, and…
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A [?] at the Williamstown Railway Pier this morning. Two passengers, named C. Hanes and Renton, on the Orient Co.'s steamship Chimborazo, bound…
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LONDON, July 30.—Mr. George Lansell, the well-known mine owner, of Sandhurst (Victoria), has met with a carriage accident, by which he sustained some injury…
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A Marrickville tram this morning ran into one of a team of horses attached to a dray loaded with cement. The horse was knocked down and dragged along the street for several feet, but though severely…
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News has been received of a frightful accident which happened to the wife of a farmer residing in Mimosa. She mounted a horse to ride round a paddock, but did not return. Search was made…
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Mr. George Lansell, the well-known mine-owner of Sandhurst, Victoria, has met with a carriage accident, by which he sustained some injury…
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An inquest was held yesterday concerning the death of Charles Gates, of Good[?]man Creek, who was killed on Thursday. The deceased, who was 63 years of age, was driving into Gulgong, and…
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LONDON, July 28.—News has been received of a terrible marine disaster, which has taken place off the coast of Spain. One of the steamships of the Guion line, Liverpool to New York,…
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Lynchburg, Va., June 29.—On account of a failure of the air brakes to work, the Virginia Midland express ran at an unaccountable speed on to the bridge over the St. James River, and the Washington and New York sleepers fell…
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A lonely site was secured some time ago at Ingleside, two or three miles from Narrabeen Lagoon, for the manufacture of explosives, which hitherto have all been imported. The…
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NEWCASTLE, Sunday,--Early on Saturday morning Joseph Dawson, a lid in the employ of Mr Russell, contractor, was uncoupling a waggon, near No. 2 cra[?] when his foot slipped, and he…
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The body of a man was found floating in the Parramatta River this morning near the Parramatta gasworks. It has not been identified. An inquest will be held this afternoon…
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A shunter employed at the Picton railway station, while coupling some trucks, was run over and killed yesterday, in consequence of the heel of his boot having got caught between the rails…
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A man named John Williamson, employed as a labourer at No. 10 section of the water works, met with, a, painful accident yesterday. Whilst working in one of the cuttings he lost his footing, and fell a…
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An accident of a painful nature happened yesterday afternoon to a man named John Wilkinson, a labourer employed at No. 10 section of the Waterworks. He slipped and fell a distance of about 8 feet,…
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A cab accident, attended with somewhat serious results, occurred yesterday evening in King-street. Whilst an old lady named Susan Hoskin was crossing the street in front of the Arcade she was knocked…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.--The Marine Board inquiry into the Vanguard-Farningham collision attribute the accident entirely to the Vanguard, but exonerate her master from blame. They…
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An inquest was held, in the Parramatra Hospital last evening on the body which was found floating in the river yesterday, and which has been identified as that of George Harp, aged 7[?],…
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