Accidents
At 2.30 o'clock on Wednesday morning a tradesman, named Patrick Marraman, was admitted into the Sydney Hospital with the smaller bone of one of his legs fractured, the result of a fall at…
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Accident no a Flour Mill
ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--A young man named William Tard, employed at W. C. Harrison and Company's mill, Port Adelaide, met with a serious accident to-day. He was oiling the machine of…
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An inquiry was held by Mr Shiell yesterday afternoon at the Tea Garden's Hotel, Waverley, into the death of the Faust, who was drowned on Sunday at Bondi while ba[?]hing with o[?]ner…
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BERLIN, March 19.—A terrible disaster has occurred in Saarbruck, in the Rhenish provinces. A violent mining explosion took place, and about 200 persons are known to have been entombed…
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An inquest was held by the City Coroner, in the Prince Alfred Hospital, on Thursday on the bo dy of a man named Robert Kennett, a van driver, in the employment of Mr. W. Lawson, furniture…
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A coroner's jury has at length found a verdict i[?] reference to the collision of the steamer Nemesis with the troopship Iberia, at the embarkation of troops in Sydney. They find that the deaths of the two…
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THE adjourned inquiry into the circumstances connected with the death of Margaret Hornsby Capel, who was killed on Tuesday afternoon, tho 3rd instant, in the harbour, through a…
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The other day a banter at Liege was giving a little dinner-party, to which ten guests had been bidden beside himself and his wife, when in dropped a…
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Early in the morning Mirabel set forth for Redwood Hall, in one of the vehicles which Mrs Delvin still kept at The Clink for the convenience of visitors, [?]returned soon after noon; haviig…
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About half-past 12, on Saturday morning, two men named Joseph Midler and Walter William Covel, were proceeding along the road near the harbour, at the foot of Margaret-street, when they…
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It has been reported to the City Coroner that at about half-past 12 o'clock on Saturday morning, a corporation labourer named James Warnock, lately residing at 7, Albion-place, off Albion-street, Surry…
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BRISBANE, Monday.--News baa been received from Kimberley that the s.s. Gunga (Captain Leggett) collided with the A.S.N, hulk James Paterson, owing to her rodder chain becoming so…
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An inquest was held yesterday at the White Hart Hotel, Lower George-street, by Mr Shiell, the City Coroner, on the body of a young man named John Warnick, Deceased was seen to be struggling…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday,--A well-known resident of Islington, near Newcastle, named Robson, had a narrow escape yesterday. While loading a pistol, the weapon went off accidentally. A great…
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BATHURST, Monday.--A lad named Jakes met with a serious accident in the railway workshops to-day. He was cleaning some punching machinery which was in motion, and the fingers of…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--A collision took place in the harbour this afternoon between the barque corong, which was being towed up the North Harbour, and the schooner Cairndhu, which was…
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In the case Fletcher v. the Commissioner for Railways, heard in the Jury Court, it was shown that Albert Fletcher was riding on the front platform of a car, on the suburban train from Stanmore. On…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--A fatal accident occurred at the Williamstown rifle baits on Saturday, during the militia rifle practice. A private in the second battalion of infantry, named D…
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A boy named Hodges was accidentally drowned in a tank close to Cobar yesterday evening while endeavouring to get a drink…
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The [?]d catastrophe that merred the public rejo[?]ings on the occassion of the departure of the New South Wales contingent for the Sondan was referred to in the Legislative Council yesterday…
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