Fatal Accident to a Boy
WOLLONGONG, Monday.--At Clifton yesterday evening, at about 6 o'clock, a little boy between six and seven years of age, named Richard Robert Johnston, was playing amongst…
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Railway Accident Near Melbourne
Melbourne, Monday.--An accident befel a goods train at Williamstown to-day. Owing to something happening at the points several trucks, fully laden, left the rails and overturned…
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WOLLONGONG, Monday.--A fatal accident happened at the Mount Kembla Colliery works on Saturday last to a miner named Archibald Parsons. It appears that Parsons and several…
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A laborer named Charles M'Carthy, aged 49, was walking along Campbell-place, Woolloomooloo, on Sunday, and when in the act of stepping on to the pavement his foot slipped and…
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PEAT'S FERRY, Monday.-- A trolly used in unloading iron for the Hawkesbury Bridge from a vessel lying at Dangar's Island got away at the top of a decline of one in 10 and…
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Melbourne, Monday.--An action was commenced to-day in the Supreme Court by Mr. Gavin Gibson, merchant, who was injured in the Windsor railway accident, to recover…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Principal Contents of This Day's Paper. the Woonona-dinga.ee Collision. the Rabbit Commission. the Bakers' Strike. Report on the Corporation Frauds. Remarkable Bankruptcy Case. Child Burned to Death. United Liedertafels' Concert. Church of England Synod
LEADERS: AN ADDITIONAL SITTING DAY. THE RABBIT COMMISSION. THE SANITARY CONVENIENCES OF THE…
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RAYMOND TERRACE, Tuesday.--A little fellow, aged six, son of Mr. James Buckmen, sawmill proprietor, fell off his father;s wharf into the river this afternoon and was drowned…
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ORANGE, This Day.—A man named Joseph Finch has been severely injured by being thrown from a buggy. A wheel of the vehicle passed over his head, and he…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--In the action Gavin Gibson, merchant, against the Railway Commissioners, for damages for injuries received in the Windsor railway accident, the jury returned…
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IN the District Court to-day, before his Honor Judge Dowling, John Maher, a cab-owner, residing at Redfern, sued the Sydney Tramway and Omnibus Company…
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A boy named John Wilcock, aged eight, residing at Spring's-buildings, Waverley-road, was run over by a horse and cart yesterday, and on his removal to the Sydney Hospital it was…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- John Mulder, formerly attached to the Box-hill train, while lighting the lamp of the tender at Camberwell station, was run over through the train moving…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Principal Contents of This Day's Paper. the Dingadee-woonona Collision. the Melbourne Liedertafels. Dispute in the Baking Trade. Exploration in New Guinea. the New Turee and A-half Million Loan. Our St. Petersburg Letter. the Chinese Question. Child Burned to Death. Continental Gossip. Norfolk Island Letter
LEADERS: POST-OFFICE-STREET AND THE RAILWAY BILL. THE SITUATION IN FRANCE…
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The Marine Board on Wednesday resumed the inquiry into the circumstances attending the collision which occurred between the steamers Woonona and Dmgadee in the vicinity of Fort…
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MELBOURNE, This Day.--There was a narrow escape at 7 o'clock this morning of a collision between the new P. and O. steamer Oceana for Sydney, and the Casino,…
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IN the District Court to-day before his Honor Judge Dowling, the hearing of the action Maher v. the Sydney Tramway and Omnibus Company, was concluded…
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The passengers by the Casino, from Port Fairy to Melbourne, give a sensational account of a narrow escape from collision about half-past 6 this morning in the Rip. The mail steamer Oceana, for Sydney, was in…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A railway employee, named John Mulder, while lighting the lamp of a tender attached to a train at the Camberwell Station, was run…
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MR. SHIELL, City Coroner, held on inquest to-day at the Coroner's Court, on the body of John Montague, aged 26 years, unmarried, a native of Ireland, and…
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