Reported Cases of Drowning
The Water Police were informed on Sunday last by a Mr M'Dougall, in the employment of Messrs Bills and Co., shipowners, that the waterman of the barque W. C. Wentworth, now lying in…
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TELEGRAMS. Dubbo Railway Fatality. DUBBO
Thomas Evans, who was killed at the railway station on Saturday, had made arrangements for getting married next week, and his intended bride was at the station at the time the accident…
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An elderly woman was knocked down last night in Bourke-street, close to the Post-office, by a runaway horse in a boggy, and before she could get up the Richmond omnibus ran over her chest…
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A serious accident, and one which is likely to terminate fatally, happened to Mr. Wm. Hunt, Bell's Creek. When he was driving up Araluen mountain last evening the horse all at once…
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A young man named Thomas Bonest, a milkman in the employ of Mr J. Farmer, dairyman. Forrill Dairy, Bourke-street met with a violent death yesterday. He was driving a milk cart, and…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. -- As the ship Benicia was preparing to proceed to San Francisco this afternoon, with over 2000 tons of coal, her cable chain suddenly stopped. The pilot boat's crew had a…
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BRAIDWOOD, Tuesday. -- Yesterday evening, Mr. William Hunt, a very old and respected resident of Bell's Creek, met with a serious accident, whereby his life is endangered. He was coming home from…
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AN accident which illustrates the dangers to which benighted travellers on the Woodville road in its present state are exposed occurred on the night of the 6th instant. A man named…
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Wednesday the City Coroner held an inquest in the Soudan Hotel, on the body of the watchman (James M'Leod), of the barque W. C. Wentworth, whose body was found underneath Cowper wharf on…
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GULGONG, Thursday.—Mr. James Kelly, manager of the White Horse claim, on the Canadian lead, who had one of his legs badly cat last Tuesday week, died yesterday from loss of blood and shock to the system…
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A boy named William Henry Whaley, 12 years of age, met with bis death while bathing at Glebe bland on Tuesday. The boy in company with three others went into the water to bathe and got out of his depth…
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Is the Assembly Hotel, Phillip and Hunter streets, Wednesday, the City Coroner held an inquest on the body of Thos. Bonest, 32 years of acre, who died while being admitted into the Sydney Hospital, on…
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Mr Shiell, the City Coloner, held an inquest yesterday at the Soudan Hotel, Lower George-street, on the body of Samuel M'Leod, who was found floating in the water under [?]wper's Wharf…
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Recently an exciting affair happened in the circus, Percy-street, Newcastle (Eng.), where Herr Holtum ("the cannon king") and a circus company, were performing. The performances were announced to…
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On Thursday a tram accident happened to a man, whose name is unknown. It appears that the victim was trying to enter a carat Charing Cross, Waverley, and had get his foot on the step, when the…
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Mr. P. James, of Bullock island, met with a serious accident in Wa[?] yesterday. He was driving a pair of horses, one of which got restive, and kicked over the bar, when they both get away…
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An accident [?] at [?] Island to a [?] William Hartup. The little [?] a loaded coal-truck, [?]was caught and…
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From authoritative sources the following history has been compiled of the engine which killed the man M'Duffie at the Middle Brighton Station on Tuesday evening. Engine No. 32 is now only six…
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A pistol "went off" yesterday in the usual sudden manner, when least expected; but fortunately the victim, a boy named waiter Ellis, 12 years of age, and residing in Walter-street, Paddington, escaped…
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A cab capsize occurred in Bourke-street yesterday, A cab-driver, named Goddard, was driving a Mr. Jaques and his sister, Mrs. Kean, from the residence of the former to the steamship Australia, which left…
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