Accidents to Colonial Traders. Melbourne, This Day
A London cable received here states that the ship Macduff, trading with Australia, grounded on the cliffs of the north Foreland. The vessel was…
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The Railway Accident. Farther Details
When the train, or rather a portion of it, to which the accident happened on Monday, on the Little Zigzag reached town, the Minister or Works (Mr. Lyne) and Dr. Woodward, a member of…
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LONDON, March 22.—The ship Macduff, 1280 tons, trading with Australia, is reported to have grounded on the cliff of North Foreland. The vessel was considerably damaged; but has been…
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A painfal accident occurred on Saturday to Edith Jones, who is a school teacher at Cheetham's Flat, near Rydal. While she was riding on a heavily laden dray, she was jerked off, and fell under one of the…
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A few other particulars concerning the railway accident on the Little Zigzag have reached us, and are supplementary of the detailed accounts of the matter published in the EVENING NEWS on Monday…
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WAGGA, Sunday.--A team of cricketers, who arrived from Tumut to play a match against Wagga, were returning from practice in a double-horse waggonette, when the…
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LONDON, March 23.—A Nordenfeldt gun. exploded on board H.M.S. Albatross at Hongkong, Two men were killed, and two seriously injured…
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THE passengers by the train which was partially wrecked on Monday morning will agree with our correspondents, whose letters and statements appeared in yesterday's…
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Mr. Shiell, the city coroner, held an induiry in the South Sydney Morgue, to-day, into the circumstances attending the death of Peter Kelly, 45, a widower, who died on the previous day from injuries received…
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An inquest was held by the City Coroner yesterday at the Crosskeys Hotel, Lower Campbell-street, relative to the death of a child aged two years and three months, named Henry…
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It was reported to the Minister for Works yesterday that the trailing wheels of a first- class car and the leading wheels of the mail van on the down western mail were thrown off the…
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The Commissioner for Railways yesterday announced that a board had been appointed to inquire into and report upon the late railway accident at the Lapstone Zig-zag. The…
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BATHURST, Tuesday.--A young woman named Williamson, daughter of the town clerk, either fell or threw herself down a well in Jaye and Freeman's yard this…
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A London cable states that the ship Macduff, trading with Australia, grounded on the cliffs at the north Foreland. The vessel was considerably damaged, but eventually was floated off again…
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A fatal accident occurred (the Argus reports) on Tuesday afternoon on the Richmond tramway line, near Russell-street, the victim being a lad 10 years of age, named James Jamieson, son of Dr. Jamieson, of Collins-street East. He…
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Sir,—In your subleader of this morning's issue on the accident at the Zigzag, you say it has frequently been suggested that it is a mistake to stop the line abruptly at a wall of rock, and that a proper precaution would be to…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A fatal boat accident occurred this morning at Point Lonsdale, when a boat which left the pilot schooner Rip for shore was struck by a…
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Nows was received in town on Monday that a railway accident had happened on the Little Zigzag near, Penrith. On inquiry at the Railway Department our reporter was informed that the 32.up train (the…
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A TOURISTS' train when coming on Monday morning from Bathurst met with an accident, in consequence, it has been reported to Mr. Goodchap, of the greasy state of the rails. Just as the train…
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An accident happened on the Knapsack Gully Zigzag, on Monday morning, to the tourists train. At Woodford the train was examined, and found to be all right. The brakes were working well. On arriving at…
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