Fatal Boat Accident
An unfortunate accident occurred on the waters of the Iron Cove on Saturday, by which a young man named Arthur Nixon, resididng in Marion-street, Leichhardt, lost…
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Fatal Mining Accident near Mudgee. Mudgee
At the Meroo on Monday a miner named Antonio Giovanni Grasso, a native of Genoa, about 56 years of age, was surface-prospecting near a slab of slate. His mate was away washing the prospect, and on returning he found…
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Our correspondent at Barrenjoey telegraphs yesterday as follows:—Captain Melevey, of the steamer Marramarra reports leaving the Patent Slip Wharf, Sydney, at 10 a.m., for Broken Bay. When three miles north of…
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"WAGGA WAGGA, Tuesday.--A man named Lynch, a wood carter, while driving a cart across a culvert near North Wagga, was carried away by the stream and drowned. The…
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Yesterday afternoon Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P. held a magisterial inquiry at the Balmain Cottage Hospital into the circumstances of tie death of one William Sutherland, fore-catra…
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The R.M.S. Zealandia, whilst proceeding to sea yesterday afternoon, bound for San Francisco via Auckland and Honolulu, took the ground on a shoal patch in the vicinity of the…
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Sir,--Permit me to draw public attention to the painful and costly proof of some of the statements made by the advocates for the loopline to Liverpool furnished by the railway…
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Henry Steele, the local District Court bailiff, was accidentally drowned yesterday whilst crossing the Wollondilly River, at Towrang. Steele, with a companion named Brett, was seen by a young man named Bradham to attempt to…
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GOULBURN, Thursday.--The sad intelligence was received yesterday at Goulburn of the drowning of Mr. Steel, who was lately appointed District Court bailiff. Deceased, with…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.--Further details of the distress in the Lower Logan district by the country being inundated have now been published and show that terrible destruction has…
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An inquiry was held on Saturday, at the Palisade Hotel, Miller's Point, by Mr. Pinhey, touching the death of John Byrnes, who was drowned on Friday afternoon off Smith's Wharf,…
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A magisterial inquiry was held by Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., at the Foresters' Arms Hotel, Turner-street, Redfern, yesterday morning relative to the death of a little boy named…
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GOULBURN, Monday.--The body of Mr. Steele, the District Court bailiff, was found on Saturday, and the same night an inquest was held in Goulburn, when a verdict was returned that…
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Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., held a magisterial inquiry yesterday at the Foresters' Arms Hotel, Turner-street, Redfern, touching the decease of a boy named Alexander Wilson, 7 years of ago, who met with his death on…
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WOLLONGONG, Monday.--The coroner held an inquest to-day concerning the death of a lad named Thos. Danby, who was suddenly killed at Mount Keira Mine yesterday. It…
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London, Monday.--Intelligence has just been received from Bahia, Brazil, that Messrs. Trinder, Anderson and Co.'s ship Kapunda, 1095 tons,…
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Intelligence has just been received from Bahia that Messrs. Trinder, Anderson, and Company's ship Kapunda, 1095 tons, from London December 11, and Plymouth the 18th,…
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London, Tuesday.--News received from Bahia states that the vessel that collided with the immigrant ship Kapunda was the Ada Melmore…
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Further particulars are to hand in reference to the sinking of the emigrant ship Kapunda while on the voyage from London to Fremantle, Western Australia. The vessel…
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GOULBURN, Thursday.--Mr. Arthur Blomfield, of Murrumbla station, near Cooma, who was thrown from his horse on Wednesday evening, died the same night. A magisterial…
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