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COOKTOWN, Friday.--the China steamer Chingsha, from Hongkong, anchored off the port yesternight and remained till daylight this morning, when she signalled that the A.S.N…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Sunday,--Mr. Vindin, the District Coroner, held an inquiry yesterday at the Royal Oak Hotel, Tighe's-hill, into the deaths by drowning of three little boys…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest was held to-day on the bodies of three boys, named Richard Pickavan, Henry F. Coombe, and Albert E. Kempster, who were drowned on Friday evening while bathing in a lagoon at Tighe's Hill. The boys want to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fatal accident, apparently caused by incautiousness in attempting to gain a tram, happened shortly before 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon to a man named Emanuel Gormus…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LITHGOW Saturday.--Thomas Doig, a miner employed by the Lithgow Colliery Company, while working on the top of an air shaft, on a swinging scaffold, somehow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Monday.--A sad case of drowning occurred yesterday afternoon at Cherry Gardens, by which Alfred, aged 20, and Arthur, aged 17, sons of Mr. J. W. T…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two fatal accidents are reported to-day. William Young, a miner at the Burwood Colliery, near Redhead, died this afternoon, at his residence, from injuries received by a fall of coal. This morning another miner, named…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.--A miner named Bowden met his death to-day by a fall of coal in the Newcastle Coal Company's pit and died almost immediately. A fatal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BR[?]WARRINA, Monday.--Yesterday afternoon, whilst crossing the Tarrion Creek in a boat, George Colless, 17 years of age, not knowing the weapon to be loaded, carelessly caught…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MUDGEE., Tuesday.--A ratal accident took place yesterday at Spring Flat. An old resident named John Reedy Walsh was stumping with a root extractor when the lever sprang…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILCANNIA, Wednesday.--The dead body of a man was discovered in the river to-day and information sent to Mr. Gower, but on account of a serious case at Menindie demanding his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The driver of the mail engine to-night felt a jar when between Parramatta and Seven Hills. On arrival of the mail train at Blacktown, the hat, coat, and portion of the brains of some human being were found upon the engine…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →YASS, Thursday.--a man named Francis Head, a wheelwright by trade, was drowned yesterday in Yass River while bathing,half a mile from the town. At the inquest to-day a verdict…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Wednesday night, about 11 o'clock, the remains of a man, terribly mutilated, were found on the railway line between Wentworthville and Toongabbie by the night operator and two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Wednesday night, on the arrival of the mail train at Blacktown, the driver, who had noticed that the train passed over something between Seven Hills and Parramatta,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The driver of the mail engine to-night felt a jar when between Psrramatta and Seven Hills. On arrival of the mail train at Blacktown, the hat, coat, and portion of the brains of some human being were found upon the engine…
Continued on Trove, page 145 →Cream separators require to be worked with caution, especially if they are not of the best make. By the bursting of one at the Co-operative Dairy in Broderup, Denmark, last November, one person lost her life and…
Continued on Trove, page 123 →In Dunedin a bookbinder named Thomas Martin fell off a train, and was killed. In Invercargill a lad named Ross was lying insensible on the line, when the coweather of a train caught…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →An unfortunate accident occurred on the waters of Iron Cove on Saturday, by which a young man named Arthur Nixon, residing in Marion-street, Leichhardt, lost his life…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YASS, Saturday. -- A man named James Murphy was thrown from his horse against a tree yesterday evening and killed on the spot. An inquest was held to-day by the coroner, Dr…
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