The City of Melbourne Drowning Case. (By Telegraph.)
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--In reply to a communication from Brisbane, drawing the attention of the head-office of the A.S.N. Company to the conduct of the crew of the…
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Miller's Point Fatality. Alleged Manslaughter. the Accused Committed
On the summons side of the Water Police Court today, before Mr. Yates, D.S.M., the hearing of the charge of manslaughter brought against Charles Rock, who was acquitted by the Coroner's jury of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →City of Melbourne Drowning Case. Prompt Action by A.S.N. Co. Brisbane
The chief officer and the boatswain of the steamer City of Melbourne, who were arrested on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the drowning of the girl Marion Williamson, were brought up in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gun Accident. Euston, This Day
A very painful accident happened to James Johnstone, a lad about 12 years old, a few days ago by the explosion of a powder flask. It appears the boy had…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Accident to a Young Man. NEWCASTLE
A somewhat severe accident happened to a young man named Purcell, at Bullock Island, on Sunday evening. It appears that he was playing with come of the waggons of the Bullock Island Company, along…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident to a Gun. ADELAIDE
The board appointed to inquire into the damage done to one of the twenty-ton guns at Fort Glanville last December, when it was manned by a detachment of the B battery of Volunteer Artillery, has sent the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision at Sea. Newcastle, This Day
Captain Halliday, of the barque Blanche, from Melbourne, has just arrived, and reports a collision with some foreign barque last night, south of Lake…
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The sudden curve at the intersection of Phillip and Hunter streets on the tram line has always been considered somewhat dangerous, and on more than one occasion…
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A peculiar accident happened on Tuesday afternoon to a son of Mr. Andrew Kirkaldy, of the Hunter River Hotel. The lad was in company with several others, playing on the reserve, when one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collision at Sea. NEWCASTLE
On the arrival of the barque Blanche from Melbourne, Captain Halliday reported a collision with a barque on the previous night, at about 7.30, some miles off the port. It was so dark that he could…
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Captain Halliday, of the barque Blanche, from Melbourne, has just arrived, and reports a collision with some foreign barque last night, south of Lake…
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A young woman named Mary Howarth, the daughter of a sawmill proprietor at Digby, went to a well on Wednesday night to draw some water. As she was absent for a long time, the family thought…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Railway Fatality. a Man Mangled to Death
On Thursday evening, as a train was being driven on the Wells-street side of the railway bridge, near the Eveleigh station, the attention of the driver was attracted by a dark suspicions-looking…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reported Collision Between Two Barques. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle
The barque Blanche, Captain Halliday, from Melbourne to this port, reports having come into collision with a foreign barque, at about half-past 7 o'clock last evening, off Norna Point, south of Lake Macquarie. Little damage…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TELEGRAMS. [Some of the following items appeared in our second and third editions of yesterday.] Fatal Gun Accident. MELBOURNE
A fatal accident occurred at Maryborough on Wednesday. W. Smith, a hairdresser, accompanied by a young man named Gordon, who was in his employment, went hare shooting near Carisbrook. Smith's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatality [?]ear Orange. ORANGE
A distressing death occurred at the Forest. A Hiss Eslick, daughter of Mr. Richard Eslick of that place, was engaged in cooking operations when her dress caught fire. She ran into the open air and was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Collision at Sea. (By Telegraph.)
NEWCASTLE, Friday.--The iron barque Blanche arrived yesterday from Melbourne and news was shortly afterwards current in shipping circles of a collision at sea between…
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On Friday, as a woman named Hannah Mullins, 45, a resident of Bathurst, was crossing George-street, near Liverpool-street, she was knocked down by a buggy, and sustained a deep lacerated wound…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Fatal Boat Accident near Cooktown. Brisbane
A Cooktowrn telegram states that William. Wilson, who started last Monday along the beach from Archer Point, returned there last evening, having gone as far as Bloomfield without finding any bodies or wreckage…
Continued on Trove, page 455 →The Accident to the Waihora. Melbourne
The Southern Cross arrived at Hobart to-day from the wreck of the Waihora. She reports that the horses have been transhipped to the steamer Australia. When she has been got off the Waihora will steam right…
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