Accident to the Sydney Express
A peculiar mishap occurred shortly after mid-night last Friday to the Sydney express train, at Culcairn. It appears that a gale was blowing at the time, the result of which was that four…
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The Fatal Accident at Riverview
A magisterial inquiry was commenced by Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., on Saturday afternoon, at St. Ignatius' College, Riverview, into the circumstances surrounding the death of a laborer,…
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NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--A man named George Finson met with a painful accident on the Coal Company's line yesterday afternoon. He was about spragging a waggon…
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The City Coroner also held an inquest at the South Sydney Morgue yesterday morning touching the death of an infant named Samuel Joseph Jones, who was drowned on the previous…
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A curious fatality occurred to a man named Cole and his wife. On Thursday last Jane Cole was admitted into the Adelaide Hospital suffering from bruises said to have been inflicted by her husband,…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--A terrible catastrophe occurred at 4 o'clock this morning at Ballarat, resulting in the death of two persons and serious injury to another. At…
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At four this morning aterrible accident happened at Ballarat. The Ice Works boiler, containing ammonia, exploded, reducing the premises to ruins, damaging…
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A number of railway carriages broke loose on the Rimutuka incline, near Wellington, to-day, and began running backwards into the tunnels. The…
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At about 11 o'clock on Monday a laborer named James Knott, while working on the railway a short distance beyond Hornsby, fell from a plank a distance of 9ft, and sustained a serious fracture of the leg…
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A magisterial inquiry was held on Saturday at Riverview College, by Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., into the circumstances connected with the death of Michael Kelly, aged 28 years, who had been employed asa labourer under the…
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TENTERFIELD, Monday,--John Hutton, farmer, residing near Tenterfield, accompanied by his wife, whilst returning from the municipal election on Saturday evening,…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--John Thomas Mason, a young man employed at woodcutting at Bragg's dam, Creswick, was accidentaly shot dead yesterday by his companion…
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On Friday last an inquest was held at the residence of Mr. Thomas Kendall, Whoppon-dilly, near Milton, by the coroner for the district, Mr. J. T. Hobbes, J.P., on the body of…
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A serious collision took place in the harbour last night. About 9.15, the steamer City of Grafton, bound to Grafton, while proceeding round Miller's Point, collided with a brig, apparently a collier (name unknown), and sustained serious…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Pilot Board held an inquiry today into the collision between the steamers Nemesis and Nelson which occurred near Queen's Wharf at the…
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Another collision occurred in the harbor last evening off Miller's Point. It appears that the steamer, City of Grafton, outward bound for Grafton, met the brig Amy, inward bound from Newcastle, coal laden…
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The pilot board inquiry into the collision between the steamer Nemisis and the Nelson, on January 29, revolted in a decision to the effect that the pilot in charge of the Nemesis was in fault, but not…
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A messenger came into town late on Tuesday night for a medical man, and said that a shocking accident had happened at Mr. M'Cauley's, some miles from Temora. It appears that two sons of Mr…
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Sir,—Allow me to correct a paragraph in your paper on Tuesday referring to an accident which occurred. It was Tuesday morning it happened by the 7.20 local, but…
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The engine of the passenger train to Seymour this morning became detached from the carriages, which were left behind between Mangalore and Seymour. The carriages were picked up by another engine just…
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