Found Drowned
BRISBANE, This Day.—The body of the woman Walsh, who suicided in the river at Bulimba Ferry, was found floating in the town reach yesterday…
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The Shooting Fatality at Castlereagh. (By Telegraph.)
PENRITH, Sunday.--At the inquest on [?] body of the boy Victor Hadley, found dead as Friday morning at Castlereagh, with a [?] wound in the breast, a verdict of death from a…
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NEWCASTLE, This Day.—A horse met its death in a peculiar way yesterday. He got on the coal line, when a horse box was run along the line, and becoming…
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NEWCASTLE, This Day.—John Grey, who was so seriously crushed by a fall of stone and Umber in the Glebe pit, on Thursday, is in a low condition, and not…
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Mr. SHIELL, City Coroner, held an inquest to-day, at the Soudan Hotel, North George-street, on the body of John Johnson, aged 42 years, who was killed…
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BRISBANE, This Day. — Lieutenant M'Gurk, of Roma, was killed on Saturday while proceeding with the local cadet corps to the rifle buts for practice. He…
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PENRITH, Sunday.—An inquest was held on the body of the boy Victor Hadley, who was found dead on Friday, at Castlereagh with a gun-shot wound in…
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BRISBANE, This Day.—A sad accident occurred at Cabbage Tree Creek, near Sandgate, yesterday. A boy and girl named Ruttenberg were sitting under a…
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BRISBANE, This Day.—The man who was run into by a train yesterday is still unconscious, but he has been identified as Louis Monz, an escaped lunatic…
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BRISBANE, This Day.—A man, whose name has not yet been ascertained was run over by a train last night between Brisbane and Oxley. The engine-driver…
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On Friday morning last, after a search of several days, a man named John Munro, owner of some cultivated land at Canley Park, was found drowned in a waterhole on the property…
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The collision between the steamer Woonona and Dingadee, which occurred in the vicinity of Fort Denison on the morning of Thursday last, formed the subject of an inquiry by the…
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WELLINGTON, Monday.—Mr. Henry Chamberlin, member for Auckland in the Upper House, has been found drowned in a waterhole on his property at Drury. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest Cables. (Our Special Messages.) a City Devastated by a Windstorm. 100 Persons Killed—1000 Injured. London
Details have been received of a terrible windstorm which has devastated the City of Cachao, the capital of Tonquin. The city is of great extent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Accidents in the Illawarra District. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wollongong
On Saturday last, a miner named Archibald Parsons, whilst sinking an air shaft for the Kembla Company, was suddenly killed by stones falling on him from the top of the shaft. No blame appears to be attached to anyone…
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WOLLONOONG, Monday.—A boy named Richard Robt. Johnston was killed yesterday by being run over by a ballast truck on the railway line at Clifton, where he…
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PEAT'S FERRY, This Day.—A trolly used in unloading iron for the Hawkesbury bridge from a vessel lying at Dangar Island, got away at the top of…
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MELBOURNE, This Day.—A railway accident occurred at the South Williamstown terminus this morning. When opposite tho signal box six heavily laden trucks…
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MELBOURNE, This Day,—Gavin Gibson, a well-known merchant, is suing tho Railway Commissioners for [?]10,000 damages sustained in the Windsor railway…
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MR. SHIELT, City Coroner held an inquiry this afternoon at Livercool-strcct, on the body of a child named Voshi Wilks, otherwise Birdie Worskitt, aged seven years,…
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