Two More Boys Drowned While Bathing
Yesterday afternoon another drowning fatality under similar circumstances somewhat to the cases which occurred on Tuesday at Pyrmont and Leichhardt happened at Cook's…
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Dangerous Collision. Narrow Escape. Melbourne, This Day
About midnight a collision occurred between the inward New Zealand steamer Hauroto and the King Arthur, an iron vessel lying close to Williamstown lightship…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collision in Hobson's Bay. [By Telegraph.) (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne
Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, the steamer Hauroto, from Fiji, while coming up the bay, ran into the ship King Arthur, anchored in the outer anchorage a short distance north and cast of…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A collision occurred shortly after midnight, this morning, between the inward bound steamer Hanroto, from Fiji, and the ship King Arthur, from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Floods in Victoria. a Newspaper Office Flooded. a Young Man Drowned. Melbourne, This Day
The rain is still falling heavily in all parts of the colony. At Maldon the TARRANGOWER TIMES office is Hooded, and the main street wrecked. At Sandhurst a…
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TENTERFIELD, Thursday.-Thomas Bounds, a fettler on the railway line, accompanied by his wife, were in town on Tuesday at the Caledonian games. They left between 10 and 11 for home…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday.-Miss Golding, of Newcastle, while jumping out of a buggy her dress caught in a wheel, and falling to the ground, she had one of her arms broken…
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BRAIDWOOD, Wednesday-A youth named Green, 17 years of age, living at Major's Creek, was drowned while attempting to save his brother, who was bathing, and had gone under…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Accident Near Tenterfield. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Tenterfield
Thomas Bounds, a fettler on the railway line, accompanied by his wife, were in town yesterday, at the Caledonian games. They left between 10 and 11 for home. At Bluff Rock crossing, when about eight miles on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatal Accident at Moruya. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Moruya
A terrible and fatal accident occurred yesterday evening to a young man named Leonard Pratt, clerk in the Commercial Bank here. He was out riding with some friends, when, it is supposed, he tried to leap a fence,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatal Accident in the Cobar District. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Cobar
Daniel M'Bride, proprietor of the Barnato line of coaches, was killed yesterday. He was driving a coach in company with Constable Revel, of Cobar. Requiring some matches to light his pipe, he handed the reins…
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GEORGE PARSONS, 24 years of age, following the occupation of a wharf labourer, was brought to the Sydney Hospital at 3 o'clock this afternoon, and admitted by…
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On Monday John Lawler, 19, living at Cook River, while being chased by a policeman, caught his foot in a pipe and falling fractured his leg. He was taken to the Prince Alfred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Causes of the Accident to the Czar
The Standard correspondent in St. Petersburg, in discussing the causes of the recent accident in which tho Czar and his family had a wonderfully narrow escape, says:--"I think…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Accident on the Sydney Express. a Child Falls From the Train. (By Telegraph.)
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A fatal accident of an unusually painful nature occurred yesterday evening on the Sydney express between Kilmore and Broadford. Mrs. Pinkett, wife of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sad Bathing Fatality. Two More Boys Drowned
Another sad drowning fatality occurred on Wednesday afternoon under similar circumstances to those cases which happened at Pyrmont and Leicbhardt on the previous day…
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A VERY sad case of drowning occurred at a spot on the Yarra, just below the Kew Asylum yesterday morning (says Wednesday's Melbourne DAILY TELEGRAPH), by…
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A MAGISTERIAL inquiry was held yesterday before Mr. W.T. Pinhey, J.P., into the circumstances concerning the drowning of two boys named Christopher Rattenburg,…
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GRAFTON, Thursday.-An accident, terminating fatally, occurred to Ethel, the 14 years old daughter of Mr. Herbert Eggins, Alumy Creek. While decorating a room for a dance on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Magisterial Inquiry. Drowned While Bathing
A magisterial inquiry was held by Mr. W. T. Pinbey, J.P., at the Pulteney Hotel, Cook's River, yesterday, into the circumstances connected with the death of William Christopher Rattenbury, aged 11…
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