A Terrible Accident. The Use of Kerosene
PEAT'S FERRY, This Day.--Another very painful accident occurred last Saturday to one of Ryland and Morse's employees at the Hawkesbury Bridge, He was cleaning…
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A Nasty Accident
GOULBURN,This Day.--Whilst returning from the play last night to his residence at Jopps, Mr. Canon and his two sisters, with Mr. Frank Duffy, of…
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IN VERELL, This Day.--While proceeding in a waggon to Grafton, a teamster named Hugh Lockley was run over and nearly crushed about the thighs and…
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A YOUTH named John Hathaway, aged 17 years, a joiner living at Woolloomooloo, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital today having the right index finger and…
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A drayman, named John Hewgill, aged 33, was crashed by the pole of his cart yesterday and injured his breast-bone. He was taken to the Sydney Hospital where he was attended to…
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The Marine Board gave their decision yesterday in the case of the Undine-Little Violet collision, which took place on the Parramatta River on the 11th ult. The finding was that…
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A meeting of the Marine Board was held yesterday morning, for the purpose of delivering judgment in the case of the late collision on the Parramatta River between the steamers Undine and Little Violet. The following were…
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A serions accident occurred last night, but was miraculously attended with no fatal results. A buggy containing two ladies and a gentleman named Canbam, and a Melbourne visitor named Duffy, was, through the horse…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Serious Accident at the Hawkesbury Bridge Works, a Boiler-cleaner Burnt with Kerosene. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Peat's Ferry
Another very painful accident occurred last Saturday to one of Ryland and Morse's employees at the Hawkesbury Bridge. He was cleaning out the tubes of a boiler with kerosene and powder. It appears the fire was not quite…
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MR. SHIELL, city coroner, held an inquest this afternoon at the Soudan Hotel. George-street North, on the body of Ernest James Forshall Bacon, a boy, who…
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A MAN named Patrick Kearns, a horsebreeder, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital to-day in an unconscious state, and breathing heavily. There were no marks…
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PEAT'S FERRY, Wednesday.--A painful accident has occurred to another of Ryland and Morse's employes at the Hawkesbury Bridge. He was cleaning out the tubes of a boiler with…
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GOULBURN, Wednesday.--A very serious accident occurred last night to three members of a family named Canham and a visitor, Mr. Frank Duffy, an artist, of Melbourne. They…
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NEWCASTLE, This Day.--A boy, name unknown, was drowned at Redhead yesterday. He was fishing on the rocks, and fell into the water…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--This afternoon Charles Donald, a miner, while fishing off the Big Redhead, fell into the sea and was drowned. His body has not yet been found…
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WAGGA, This Day.--The body of the son of Mr. Lidgate, drowned in the river on Monday last, has not yet been recovered. The father of the child made an…
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AUCKLAND, Thursday.--The steamer Bollinger, belonging to the Jubilee Steamship Company, was seized to-day under a warrant of the vice-Admiralty Court, at…
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CLIPTON, This Day.--Yesterday a man named Joseph Tattersall was killed at the Oxford railway station, through having jumped off a ballast train while it was in…
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CLIFTON, Thursday.--A man named Joseph Tattersall met with a fatal accident at Otford to-day. fie was standing on the brake of one of the waggons of a ballast train, with the…
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AUCKLAND, Thursday.--The steamer Bellinger, which was chartered by the Jubilee s.s. Company to run in opposition to the Northern S.S. Company, and which struck on a reef off…
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