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Accidents, 1888

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Magisterial Inquiry. Drowned Whilst Bathing at Bexley

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 January 1888 · page 5

On Saturday afternoon Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J. P., held a magisterial inquiry at the residence of Mr. Fredk. J. Gibbins, Wollongong-road, Arncliffe, touching the death of a groom named John Richard Radcliffe, who was drowned…

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The Angerona-orontes Collision. London, Jan. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 January 1888 · page 9

The Admiralty has held a court of inquiry into the circumstances attending the collision which occurred about 12 months ago off Wollongong, between the ships Angerona,…

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The Centennial Festivities the First Accident. a Man Nearly Killed

The Australian Star · Monday 23 January 1888 · page 6

DURING the erection of the from triumphal arch at the K[?] section of George-street, this after [?] One of the large planks slipped…

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Terrible Accident in George-street. One Man Killed

The Australian Star · Monday 23 January 1888 · page 5

ABOUT ten minutes past 9 o'clock this morning, while three men, named [?] Kane, labourer, Henry Cripps, stonemason, and Peter M'lnerney, labourer, were…

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The Accident in George-street

The Australian Star · Monday 23 January 1888 · page 8

THE marvellous part of this afternoon's accident at King-street, while the triumphal arch was being erected, is that half- a-dozen people were not killed. When…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 January 1888 · page 4

Patrick O'Connor, a seaman, residing at 82 Harrington-street, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital on Saturday suffering from a contused wounds over the left eye and a fracture of the…

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Fatal Riding Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 January 1888 · page 4

WEST MAITLAND, Saturday. -- An extraordinary accident, resulting in the death of a young man named Wm. Kay. happened on the Lochinvar-road, near Maitland, on Thursday. It…

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Accidentally Drowned

The Australian Star · Tuesday 24 January 1888 · page 5

MOREE,This Day.--At an inquest on the body of William E. Moore, a young man who was drowned in the Big River while bathing, on Sunday afternoon, a…

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Anothing Bathing Fatality

The Australian Star · Tuesday 24 January 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--A boy named Ti[?]. Mitchell was drowned at Dark Creek yesterday while bathing. An inquest will be held to-day…

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An Unfortunate End. Found Drowned

The Australian Star · Tuesday 24 January 1888 · page 5

THE cook on board the ship Brilliant saw a woman fall into the water about half past 11 o'clock last night, between the Baths and Lady Macquarie's Chair. He…

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Fatality in Georgestreet. Two Men Buried Beneath a Fall of Earth

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1888 · page 4

An accident happened in George-street yesterday whereby a man named Timothy Kane lost his life. Kane, it appears, was engaged in company with two other men named…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1888 · page 6

Henry Ballhouse, whilst making some repairs at the Eveleigh sheds, tell off a ladder a distance of about loft, and received severe injuries to his back. He was attended to at the…

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Drowned in a Waterhole

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 January 1888 · page 4

A magisterial inquiry was held by the City Coroner on Monday respecting the death of a man named John Bishop, aged 77, who was found drowned in a waterhole in the vicinity…

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Collision in the Bristol Channel. a German Barque Sunk. [By Cable.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1888 · page 9

A collision has occurred in the Bristol Channel between the ship Celtic Chief, bound for Albany, Western Australia, and a German barque, the name of which has not been…

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Coronoer's Inquest. Fatal Accident Through Undermining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1888 · page 11

The City, Coronor (Mr. H. Shiell, J.P.) held an inquest yesterday at the Coroner's Court, Chancery-square, touching the death of a man named Timothy Kane, a labourer, who was killed in George-street, near the…

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Australian. Victoria. Shooting Accident at Rille Butts. The Marker Shot

The Australian Star · Wednesday 25 January 1888 · page 8

MELBOURNE, This Day.--A shooting accident occurred At the Rifle Butts, Lapi[?] Park, this morning. Four men were practising at long range, and whoa three…

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The Fatal Accident in George Street. The Inquest

The Australian Star · Wednesday 25 January 1888 · page 8

AN inquest was held at the Coroner's Court this afternoon by the City Coroner (Mr. H. Shiell, J.P.) touching the death of Timothy Kane, aged 20, a native of…

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Escaped Drowning

The Australian Star · Thursday 26 January 1888 · page 5

Newcastle, This Day.—Yesterday a lad named Ellia fell off the gangway of the Namoi into the harbour, lie could swim a little, but was rapidly becoming…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 January 1888 · page 5

Newcastle, Wednesday.--A boy named Robert Ellis had a narrow escape from, drowning this morning. Whilst sitting on the gangway of the steamer Namoi alongside the wharf,…

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Inquest. Found Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 January 1888 · page 4

An inquest was held before the City Coronet at the South Sydney morgue yesterday concerning the death of a woman who was found floating in the waters of Woolloomooloo Bay…

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