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Harry Karton, the mate of the tug Cobra, when returning to his vessel on Saturday night, missed his footing and fell into the harbour between the wharf and the tug. It is supposed that he struck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A serious buggy accident occurred near Ournie Station by which the wife of Mr. J. Lloyd (Manager for Cobb and Co.) had her shoulder put out, and the servant had an arm broken. Mrs. Lloyd…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest was held in the South Sydney Morgne to-day by the City Coroner into the death of a man named Charles Joseph Thomas, who was killed at the Burwood railway station by the down train which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A young man named Samuel George Beckett, twenty years of age, was drowned in the Duck River, Rookwood, on Monday. It seems that, with a companion, he went into the river to bathe, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--A narrow escape from a disastrous collision occurred on the railway line near Kast Brighton to-day. An excursion train from Melbourne, filled with visitors to the military…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Cooper's Plain race meeting yesterday, a lad named Jas. Toohey, of Ipswich, and the horse lie was riding, were killed. It was in a hack race, in which there were ten horses. The horse Toohey…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Simon Fraser, M.L.A., was driving three ladies in a buggy yesterday, when the horse bolted. On rounding the corner of Vulture-street and Stephen-road, the buggy upset, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The City Coroner held an inquest yesterday, at the South Sydney Morgue, on the body of a [?]leaner named Charles Joseph Thomas, who was killed at the Burwood railway station on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At about 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon a boy named William Dennett. 11 years of age, residing at No. 10, Derwent-street, Glebe, who was on a visit Canterbury along with some friends, got into…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A collison of a somewhat serious character occurred in the harbor this morning, fortunately it was unattended with loss of life. It appears that shortly after midnight the steamship Buninyong…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A terrible accident occurred at the Tichborne lead on Sunday night, to an old resident named Michael Helland. A digger, who was looking for a pool of water among the old holes to wash a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The last train last night from Port Adelaide ran off the main line on to the siding, on which an engine was standing. The train was going slow, and the driver, by the aid of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Tocumwal correspondent wrote on Saturday that a report was brought in that a young lady, the daughter of Mr. Fairs, a very old resident on the Victorian side of the river near Tocumwal. had been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A collision, resulting in the sinking of the ketch Vision and the injuring of the ketch Evelyn and a timber scow named the Sc .w, took place between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →James Bartley, [?] miner, residing in Leichhardt, who was working on Messrs. Rowe and Smith's section on the [?] railway, had put a blasting charge in, and as it did not go [?] he proceeding to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yesterday afternoon, about 20 minutes past 4 o'clock, a man named John Beauchamp, who had been standing in William-street, between Riley and Yurong streets, Woolloomooloo, either threw…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fatal accident occurred near Bullarto, Daylesford, to a man named Francis Habb, 45 years of age. He was riding on a load of timber, when the wheel of the waggon, which was being driven…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DISTRESSING reports of killed and wounded in the ranks of the Australian contingent will, in all human probability, come in the course of events; but no sadder tale can be told than that of the violent death of the wife of…
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Continued on Trove, page 9 →A fatal gun accident occurred in Clones toâday. John Symons, a son of the landlord of the Cattle Market Hotel, was placing a loaded gun in a buggy, when the trigger caught, and the…
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