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Dr. N. C. Miller, of Stroudburg, U.S.A., relates the case of a child who was accidentally shot. The bullet penetrated the right temporal bone, just above the centre. Uttering a scream the child fell to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The board appointed to inquire into the cause of the accident on Monday evening on the Hills Railway began their proceedings this morning. They left Adelaide by Special train, and after inspecting the scene of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ADELAIDE, Thursday.--The board of inquiry into the accident which occurred on the Nairne railway line on Easter Monday concluded their investigation to-day. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Thursday evening, as the members of Victorian bowling team and the local bowling teams were returning from a picnic, down the Parramatta River, in the steamer Waterview, the vessel collided with the…
Continued on Trove, page 921 →An accident occurred on the Hergott and Strangwaye railway works last night, resulting in five men being killed, and three wounded, though not seriously. About 8 o'clock, as an engine with 11 trucks…
Continued on Trove, page 900 →Shortly before 2 o'clock this morning the Union Company's steamer Taupo, from Napier to Gisborne, want ashore on the rods at Tuahine Point, about three miles from the latter port At the time of the accident…
Continued on Trove, page 900 →ADELAIDE, Friday. -- The Government have not yet definitely decided whether Lindsay, the signalman, and Forrest, the pointsman, engaged on the Hills railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the adjourned inquest in connection with the Lithgow colliery accident held yesterday a large amount of information was elicited from the several witnesses as to the probable cause of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An inquiry was held on Monday in the Soudan Hotel before the City Coroner into, the circumstances surrounding the death of "William James Passmore, who was killed on Saturday night some ten minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A terrible railway accident, resulting in the death of five men and the injury of others, took place on the unfinished section of the Great Northern railway, between Hergott and Strangways Springs, on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A young man, Jno. M'Gregor, was accidentally drowned yesterday at Cowes. He went into the sea to recover a boy's hat, and the water being very…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Sunday --While the steamer Khandalla, from Calcutta, was being berthed at the Williamstown pier this afternoon she collided with the ship Prince Oscar, owing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →RIVERSTONE, Saturday.--The boy, Daniel Ross, who was so seriously injured at the station here by a goods train on Tuesday night, is not progressing so favorably as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A horrible affair is reported in the New Zealand Press as having occurred in Waiparo. Some six months ago the Waipafo block was adjudicated upon by the Land Court, and the chief Tuta Mihaniho…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest was held this morning at the Assembly Hotel, before Mr. Shiell the City Coroner, on the body of James Clarke, late of Botany-street, aged 74…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A miner named Thomas Burton was nearly killed by a fall of [?] in the Cooper, [?]tive mine to-day. The sponge gave way, and a [?]se of post fell on his leg…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--A miner, Thomas Britton, had a narrow escape from being killed by a fall of coal in the Co-operative pit yesterday. The sprags gave way and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →RIVERSTONE, Monday.--The boy Daniel Ross, who was run over by the goods-train on Tuesday last, had his left leg amputated between the ankle and knee to-day by Drs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two lascars were seriously injured in a collision between the Khandalla and the Prince Oscar at the Port Melbourne pier yesterday. Over £1000 worth of damage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →His Excellency Sir William Jervois had a narrow escape from drowning this evening. While going on board the Government steamer at Manakau, His Excellency missed his footing, and fell into the water. He…
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