Accidentally Poisoned
MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Mr. Frewster, stage-door keeper of the Bijou Theatre, poisoned himself accidentally to-day through swallowing a draught of carbolic acid in…
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Accidental Death
MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Mr. Henry London, the shire secretary of Yackandandah, was killed on Friday by being thrown from his horse, his neck being dislocated…
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An inquest was held at the Victoria Barracks yesterday by Mr. Shiell, the City Coroner, touching the death of William Henry Beger, aged 22. On Friday, afternoon last, deceased,…
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At the South Sydney Morgue on Monday an inquest was held by the City Coroner on the body of Starkey Parkinson, which was found dead in a paddock off the Cook's River-road on Saturday…
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A fatal accident to a Shire engineer, Mr. Henry London, long and favorably known as engineer for the Shire of Yackandandah and the Borough of Albury, met with a fatal accident while…
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A man named Kuchow met with a severe accident at Matherson's sawmill, Myall Creek, near Port Stephens, on Saturday, and was brought to Newcastle the same day by the steamer Kingsley…
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COOKTOWN, Monday. -- Duncan Macallum, forecabin steward of the City of Melbourne, died from poisoning on the 5th instant, while the vessel was on the way to Thursday Island…
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Colonel French, while riding along Wickham-street on Tuesday was in danger of a collision with a tramcar and a dray. To escape that he urged his horse on, bat the animal slipped on the…
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At the end of last week a little child, only daughter of Mr. D. Frazer, storekeeper, Tullimber, accidently fell into a water-closet. She was speedily rescued, and Dr. Thompson at once…
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Yesterday a diver succeeded in recovering the body of the seaman, William Sanderson, of the steamer Wentworth, who was drowned on Saturday last when the Wentworth collided with the ketch…
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By the schooner Mary Ogilvie, which arrived yesterday from Lord Howe Island, there reached Sydney Captain Munns (the master), Mrs. Munns, and the crew of the brig Naind, which was wrecked on Elizabeth Reef, whilst on a voyage…
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By the arrival of the schooner Mary Ogilvie, from Lord Howe's Island, we learn of the total wreck of the brig Naiad on Elizabeth Reef and the rescue of the crew by the Mary Ogilvie, which vessel brought…
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Mr. Pinhey, J.P., yesterday resumed the inquiry regarding the death of John Craig, at the Assembly Hotel, Hunter-street. The Revs. George and Walkden Brown, Wesleyan…
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On Friday evening, shortly after dark, a report was circulated throughout the town and neighborhood of Queanbeyan that Miss Kate Cumming Glover (a young lady about twenty…
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On Thursday, at the Soudan Hotel, the City Coroner initiated an inquiry into the cause of the death of William Sanderson, late seaman on board the steamer Wentworth, and who lost his life on…
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Yesterday afternoon the City Coronar (Mr. H. Shiell, J.P.) opened an inquiry at the London Hotel, George-street North, touching the death of Andrew Sanderson, who was drowned in the harbour on the afternoon of…
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W. Kotos, a bootmaker of Bright, went out rabbit-shooting on Tuesday evening, and as he did not return home, a party went out to look for him on the following morning, and found his body…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.--An extraordinary accident occurred this morning at the Roma- street station. A porter named John French was standing on the rails with his back to…
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The manner in which the committee in charge of the Patriotic Fund is distributing miserable and wort[?]ess pittances to the members of the contingent who were seriously injured is not…
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A young man named William Haley, drayman, residing at No. 596, Harris-street, was admitted into the Sydney Hospital last evening. He was suffering from a crushed hand and general concussion. It…
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