A Fireman Injured
The steamer Carrington, which conveyed the Governor and the Ministerial party to Manly on Saturday, was the scene of an unusually painful accident while the vessel was returning to the Quay…
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Railway Fatality. ADELAIDE, Monday. March 15
A fatal railway accident occurred on South-terrace on Saturday night. A woman, named Sarah Ann Little-Ford, alighted from the Glenelg train before the engine had stopped, and was ran over and killed…
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The body of a man named John Beason, was found floating in the M'Intyre River. on Thursday morning. The body had evidently been in the water two days. An enquiry was held, and a verdict of found dead…
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A seaman named George Robertson was conveyed to the Sydney Hospital on Saturday by two constables, and found to be suffering from a serious lacerated scalp wound, 3½ in length and…
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A serious accident happened to Senior-sergeant Abercrombie, of the North Shore police force, on Tuesday last. He was shooting at the butts, Paddington, when the weapon be teas using recoiled, and…
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A commission agent named Ernest A. Heckscher, residing in 185, William-street, died in the Sydney-Hospital on Sunday night, from the effects of injuries sustained by having been thrown from a…
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AFTER the terrible catastrophe at the Lithgow Colliery, and while the origin of the fire remained a mystery, little groups of miners would gather in the vicinity of the pit's mouth, and there discuss the accident in all its…
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A fatal boat accident happened at Nethang, Gippsland, last Sunday, to a man named Christie Herbert. He was drowned through the upsetting of a boat…
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Mr. Shiell, the city coroner, held an inquiry in the Assembly Hotel to-day into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. Ernest A. Heckscher. Mr. Robert Hamilton Johnstone, a hairdresser and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accidentally Drowned. COOMA, Tuesday, March 16
A boy 5 yeas of age, son of Mr. N. S. C. Berry, manager for Messrs. King and Co., Dangelong, accidentally fell into the Umeralla River and was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sad Case of Drowning. PENRITH, Wednesday, March 17
A sad case of drowning occurred in Mulgoa on Tuesday. Two little boys about six years of age were returning from school, when, on passing a dam, one of them named Halloran fell in. The other boy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Found Drowned. MELBOURNE, Wednesday, March 17
The body of J. J. Kelly, a well-known pig dealar, trading between Warrnambool and Melbourne, was found in Lake Patobe on the morning of the 8th instant. The deceased, after buying largely, had begun…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Terrible Fatality. MANILLA, Wednesday, March 17
A terrible accident occurred at a place about six miles from here on Tuesday evening. Some men were making a tank for Mr. Wilshire, of Klori Station, when a mass of earth, about twelve tons in weight,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Railway Fatality. MELBOURNE, Tuesday, March 16
A young man named Palmer, while waiting at the Wallan railway station on Monday evening for a train to Melbourne, played with a dog, and slipped off the platform, when he was run over by a goods…
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A laborer named John Warrener, 28, residing at 151, Riley-street, Woolloomooloo, met with a critical accident on Tuesday. While he was working beneath Messrs Briscoe, Drysdale, and Co.'s new…
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A man named William M'Carthy was drowned off Goat Island, The body has been recovered, and removed to the Circular Quay Morgue. An inquest will be held to-day…
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Shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a serious accident happened to a man named James Dearey, who was driving a dray in Pitt-street. When opposite the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Accident at Newcastle. Newcastle, This Day
Yesterday, Peter Blacken, a driver employed at the Stockton sinking pit, met with an accident, which, had it not been discovered in another half minute, would…
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An inquiry has been held at Brighton into the circumstances of the recent yachting accident at Brighton, by which Mr. Joseph Moore lost his life. The deceased was with Mr. B. Curtis, the owner, in the Dolphin yacht, which…
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Shortly after 3 p.m. to-day the Minister of Works, accompanied by Mr. P. G. King, M.L.C.; Mr. Alex. Bowman. M.L.A.: Mr. Levien, M.L.A., and Mrs. Levien, Mr. F. W. Tribe (Mayor of Tamworth), and…
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