Drowned in the Murray
ADELAIDE, This Day.-- Thomas Giddings was in a boat on the Murray, at Murray Bridge, when he fell out into deep water, and was drowned. An…
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Boating Fatality on the Yarra
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A boating accident occurred is the Yarra at Richmond yesterday. A youth named Andrew Spiers, aged 16, while changing seats in a boat with a companion fell…
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Melbourne, Friday.-Captain Lucas, of the schooner Falcon, while proceeding in a boat from Queenseliff to the schooner, the boat filled and sank. Captain Lucas was drowned, but the…
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A DELAIDE, This Day.-- Gustav Adolph Norling, aged 34, with his brother, went for a bathe in the Torrens Lake at mid-night on Saturday. Gustav did not return…
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BETWEEN 9 and 10 o'clock this morning the wall of an old two-storey building in Blackburn-street, off Elizabeth-street, which was being pulled down, collapsed…
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A collision occurred in the harbour yesterday morning. The schooner Oamaru, while being removed from the dyke to the stream, struck the barque Delphine Melnne, damaging the latter considerably. The Oamarn…
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A middle-aged woman named Mary Hodgkin non, residing in Day-street, off Erskine-street, was in the act of stopping off a steamer in Middle Harbor yesterday when her foot slipped…
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Sir,--Permit me, through the medium of your columns, to convey the heartfelt thanks of the crew of the Idothea to the brave crews of the Collina, Petrol and Myosotis for their…
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LOUTH, Monday. -- A and case of drowning occurred at Dunlop station on Sunday. A young man named Kerr, a striker in a blacksmith's shop, went with some comrades to the…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.-About 7 o'clock on Sunday evening a lad named Spiers and another youth while rowing up the Yarra in Richmond were attacked by some boys on the bank with…
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BALLINA, Monday. -- A young child, son of Callaghan, engine driver of the steamer Comet, fell overboard unseen last night. When missed a search was made and the body was recovered…
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BROKEN HILL, Monday.-A fatal accident occurred at Block 14 mine on Sunday morning. A young man named Thomas Bagwell, aged 22, employed as a trucker, was starting to work as…
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Sir,-Permit me through the medium of your valuedcolumns to convey the heartfelt thanks of the crew of the Idothea to the brave crews of the Collina, Petrel, and Myosotis, for their timley…
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At half-past 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the passenger train from Redfern, due at Blackheath at 1.35 p.m., by some means left the rails when approaching the Blackheath Station. As far as…
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Henry Fay, residing in Carey-street, Married ville, was admitted into the Prince Alfred Ho[?] pital yesterday morning, suffering from injuries a severe nature to his stomach. It appears that [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shocking Mining Accident at Broken Hill. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Broken Hill
A fatal accident happened yesterday to a man named Thomas Bagwell, a miner in Block 14 Mine. He had descended with the morning shift to the 300ft. level in the main shaft, in a cage, and raised a guard-bar so as…
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While eight laborers wore at work on the railway line at Halle, a town in Prussian Saxony, they were run over and killed by a railway tra[?]…
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THIS morning, about 7 o'clock, whilst a little boy named Henry Fay, living with his parents at Redfern, was playing with a loaded rifle it exploded, the contents…
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AUCKLAND,This Day.--A man named Telfar was drowned at Waitara yesterday by the capsizing of a boat. At Lake Brunner, on Saturday, two men named…
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CAMPBELLTOWN, This Day.--Dr. Diamond met with a serious accident here. He was returning from a drive with his wife and child, when the hind wheel of the vehicle…
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