Accidents in the Saddle
TARANA, This Day.--Two sad accidents that might have been attended with fatal results happened here on Saturday clean to the station. The girths of a saddle…
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Accidents
A man named Archibald Purves, aged 56, living at the Glebe, was driving a horse and cart in George-street west yesterday when a portion of the harness broke, with the result…
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A TERRIBLE accident, through the want of caution exhibited by a boy, while in a building where a lift is used, occurred to-day. Just before midday a…
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A LABOURER named Thomas Moody, aged 37 years, and living in Islington Terrace, Newtown, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital to-day, suffering from a…
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NEWCASTLE, This Day.--A horrible accident is reported from Morpeth. On Wednesday, a farmer's wife, Mrs. Wright, was lifting the dinner from the fire, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fatal Accident in York-street. a Boy Killed by a Lift
THE City Coroner (Mr. Shiell) held an inquest this morning at the Soudan Hotel, George-street North, on the body of a boy named Edgar Hermann, aged 7 years, a…
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A sad case of drowning occurred at Menindie. Wychcots Turner, who was well connected in England, was working as a rabbiter, and had a camp with three others on the bank of the river opposite Menindie. They were all…
Continued on Trove, page 595 →Nautical Scraps. Han Overboard! or All But Drowned (Concluded.)
No one who has not been in a similar situation can form any idea of the awfulness with which I gazed on the dark glistening sides of the immense billows as saw myself sinking away from them as if to the very…
Continued on Trove, page 597 →Young Woman Drowned in the Harbour. the Body Identified
THE young woman whose dead body wm found floating in the liar hour at Huron's Point on Thursday, and who was not recognised up to the time that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Buggy Accident Near Mudgee. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Mudgee
A fatal accident occurred last evening near Mudgee to Mr. Thomas Cheshire, an old and well-to-do resident of Mudgee. He left his home in a buggy to proceed to Dungaree, and was driving a spirited horse. Shortly alter…
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A shocking accident occurred at Ipswich on Tuesday. A two-horse cab, containing the driver, Donald M'Ncil, bis son, and two passengers named Wilson Henry and bis wife, was run into by a…
Continued on Trove, page 594 →Fatal Accident on the Railway
A sad fatality occurred on the night of the 9th instant on the railway line about four miles from Queanbeyan. A farmer named Cornelius Grady, living at Yarralumla, was proceeding home on horseback, and…
Continued on Trove, page 595 →Fatal [?]m Accident at Newcastle
On Saturday [?] at 10.30 [?] arried woman named Downic, residing [?] ham was crossing [?]tram line near Char[?] Wick and was struck [?] tram motor. She was carried along line for 100…
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Another accident occurred at the Hawkesbury Bridge on Monday. A man named Daniel Cullen got his hand severely crashed between a largo iron bucket and a stone, and had to proceed to Sydney this afternoon to have his…
Continued on Trove, page 595 →Fatal Accident at Sandringham. Killed by a Tram
THE City Coroner held an inquest to-day at the South Sydney Morgne on the body of Patrick Carey, aged 3s years, a native of Ultimo, Sydney, who was killed by a…
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MUDGEE, Friday.--An inquest was held this morning before the P.M. touching the death of Thomas Cheshire, who was killed yesterday by being thrown from his buggs. At 7 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Awkward Accident. Collision in the Harbour
WHILST the steamer Mermaid was on her way to Manly on Saturday evening she narrowly escaped being sunk by a collision with the quarantine tender, Lorna Doone…
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An inquest was held before the City Coroner, at the South Sydney Morgue, on Saturday last on the remains of a man named Patrick Carey, who was killed by being run over by a tram on…
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WELLINGTON, This Day.—The ship Pletone, 1092 tons register, which left London on December 23, has gone ashore two miles north of the Waikanae River…
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The steamer Mermaid, running on the new Manly Beach Ferry Service, had a narrow escape from being sunk by collision off the Quarantine Station, North Head, on Saturday. It…
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