Supposed Case of Drowning
WENTWORTH, Monday.--An old resident named John Cameron is supposed to have been drowned on Saturday night while riding home late. He got into the Billabong, two miles…
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The Tram Fatality
An inquest was held before the acting-coroner at the South Sydney Morgue yesterday touching the death of John Thomas O'Keeffe, aged three years and eight months, who was…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday.--During the passage of the fore-and-aft schooner Jane from Port Stephens on Friday night, Captain Frederick Johnston was struck by the main sheet and…
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LONDON, September 19.—Amongst those killed in the railway collision at Doncaster was Mr. Trimmed, son of the organist of Auckland Cathedral…
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An inquest was subsequently held by the acting-coroner into the circumstances attending the death of William Noel Darcy Martin, aged live years and six mouth, whose dead…
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The acting-coroner, Mr. A. M. Fisher, held an inquest yesterday into the circumstances attending the death of a man named Francis M'Clafferty, who was drowned in Neutral Bay…
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Sir,—As I have occasion to pass through Belmore Park at least twice every day I have on several occasions noticed the narrow escapes made by pedestrians, both old and Young, from being immolated en route, and invariably from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sad Case of Drowning Near Deniliquin. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Deniliquin
A man named George Jackson, son of a farmer at Merino, near Hamilton, Victoria, was accidentally drowned to-day while assisting to cross cattle. Jackson arrived here last week with a mob of cattle from Mount Margaret, and…
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DUBBO.—Yesterday evening, when leaving his office, Mr. C. H Fitzhardinge, the well-known solicitor of Dubbo, was endeavoring to mount his horse, which was rather fidgety, when it threw…
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MURRURUNDI.—A serious tree accident occurred at Glenalvon on Saturday afternoon. John Wilde and another man were waiting in a paddock, and had dismounted to gather wood from…
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An inquest was held yesterday afternoon by the Acting Coroner, at the South Sydney Morgue, regarding the death of a child named John Thomas O'Keefe, aged 3 years and 8 months, who, on Saturday morning last, was killed by a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Accident on the Great Northern Railway. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle
A fatal accident occurred on the Great Northern Railway, at the Broadmeadows station, near Newcastle, yesterday evening. While the excursion train from Gosford was proceeding to Newcastle, a gatekeeper named James Shields was…
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A strange occurrence, unhappily attended with a fatal result, took place on the Sandridge-road, about three miles beyond Manly, yesterday. Two men, named Patrick Ward and Richard Lyons…
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LONDON, Tuesday.--A serious accident occurred yesterday on board the Royal mail steamer Elbe. The vessel had been re-fitted with new engines. While these were being…
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NEWCASTLE.—The evidence at the inquest on the fatality to the railway gatekeeper on the Gosford line showed that James Shields was 65 years old, and had been gatekeeper for eleven…
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The condemnation of Messrs. W. Howard Smith and [?] steamer Cheviot by the marine authorities of South Australia has (says the Melbourne Argus of the 19th instant) occasioned some surprise among shipowners The vessel, while proceeding…
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Some time since an opinion was published from the Attorney-General to the effect that the evidence taken at the coronial inquiry idid not hear out the verdict of the jury in the…
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A little girl named Cracknell had her collarbone fractured on Sunday at Maitland through fulling out of bed. A youth named Michael O'Ryan, while…
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These drowned were:-- Captain James Gofie, Joseph F. Robbins, first mate; N. W. Rasmusen, second mate; J. D. Crane, Steward; Charles Williams, boatswain; P. Olsero, sailmaker; H…
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The Acting-Coroner, Mr. A. M. Fisher, held an inquest at the South Sydney morgue yesterday concerning the death of a man named Patrick Vaughan, who was killed under somewhat…
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