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Charles Arnott, the son of the foreman of the [?]yers at the new telegraph office, now in course of erection, fell from the scaffolding this morning, a distance of about twenty feet. He was picked…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Friday.--A half-caste named Buckley was thrown from a horse at Clarence Town on Wednesday afternoon. He sustained a fracture of the skull, and is now in the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Friday,--A woman named Bridget Pritchard was run over by a Borehole coal-train last nigh. She had her leg amputated, and is now in a fair way towards recovery…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A man named William Smith, aged 60, met with a frightful accident Wednesday evening in the vicinity of the Victoria Gold-mining Co.'s claim, South Gundagai. It appears he was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Charles Arnott, the son of the foreman of the bricklayers at the new telegraph office, now in course of erection, fell from the scaffolding this morning. a distance of about twenty feet. He was picked…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A rather serious accident happened on Friday to a man named Edwin Jackson, of Darling-street, Balmain. He was playing with his son, and accidentally broke his ankle. He was taken to the Balmain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On July 31 Mr. Jas. park, licensee of the Empress of India Hotel, Botany-road, Alexandria, happened to go to his stable to look after the horses, As he did not return Mrs. park went to see what detained…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Captain Goodall, of the steamer Culgoa, saved a life on Friday's at Noosa. It appears that a young man named Simons went out for a row in a boat at Noosa, and some time afterward Goodall, who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News has reached town that a frightful accident occurred on the Gundagai railway at the Coolac crossing yesterday. It appears that several thousand sheep, in passing over the line, caused…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An accident occurred at March, about three miles from Orange, on Sunday afternoon, by which an old resident named Mr. Peter Curtis, a tailor in the employment of Messrs. Dalton Bros…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Commissioner of Police has received a telegram from Townsville to the effect that two men, known only as Jim and Phil, employed in punting mangroves for the Victoria station, were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A married woman named Mrs. Klaenback met with a rather serious accident at Ultimo on Friday morning. The woman, who is a dealer, was being driven to the George-street Markets in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two accidents, one of which proved fatal, occurred to markers at rifle butts on Saturday. Charles Thompson was engaged at the Williamstown butts, and while no firing was proceeding at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday an accident of a painful nature occurred to a railway laborer, John Dunn, 41 years of age, who resides on the Burwood-road, Burwood. Dunn was working on the Northern railway line…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News has just reached town that a frightful occident occurred on the Gundagai railway at the Coolac crossing this morning. It appears that several thousand sheep, in passing over the line, caused the ballast to fill up the space between…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GUNDAGAI, Monday.--A dreadful accident happened this morning on the Gundagai railway, where the road crosses the line at Coolac. It appears a large mob of sheep in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, August 4.—General Komaroff, commander of the Russian forces on the Afghan frontier, professes his inability to prevent another collision between the Russians and the Afghans…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday.--The Anglo-Russian difficulty has assumed a less peaceful aspect. Intelligence from the Continent states that the Russian General…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Sunday evening a serious accident occurred to a man named Robert Wardrope, who has for some time been employed at fencing work by Mr. G. C. Pearson at Sandy Creek. Between 6 and 7…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The district coroner, Mr. C. W. Weekes, held an inquest at Coolac to-day on the body of John Fisher, a single man, native of Victoria, who was killed on the railway line yesterday morning. The evidence adduced was to the effect…
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