Shocking Building Accident
A shocking accident, attended with fatal results, happened last week at a building now in the course of erection for Mr. Say well, as a bonded store, at Dawes Point. A youth…
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Two Drowning Cases
Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., held a magisterial inquiry at the South Sydney Morgue on Saturday concerning the death of the woman, who has not yet been identified, and who was found drowned…
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A MAGISTERIAL inquiry was held by Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., at the Croydon Hotel this morning, touching the death of a man whose dead body was found on Saturday…
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WEST MAITLAND, Saturday.--A boy named Bryant bad a marvellous escape from being drowned in the Hunter River here to-day. The lad fell into the river…
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A MAGISTERIAL inquiry was held at the South Sydney Morgue to-day, by Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., into the circumstances surrounding tho death of a boy named…
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HOBART, Sunday.--This afternoon two young sons of Detective Franklyn were drowned when afloat in a box on Baker's Pond in a disused quarry…
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Mr. W. T. Pinhoy, J. P., commenced a magisterial inquiry on Saturday touching the death of a boy named Sydney Stone, aged nine years, whose body was found in Geddes' wool washing…
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A sad drowning case occurred at Five Dock on Friday afternoon. An old man named William Speed, aged 65 years, who resided on the Iron Cove-road, was gathering apples from a tree…
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A disastrous collision, involving terrible loss of life, occurred in the English channel on Sunday night, February 3. The vessels concerned were the steam collier Nereid, bound from Newcastle to St…
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AT about S o'clock this morning the dead body of a man was found lying face downwards on the northern beach of Double Bay by a youth named Stanley…
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At about 8 a.m. on Saturday a boy named Stanley Bosanquet, who resides at Double Bay, found the dead body of a man, whose name is at present unknown, lying face downwards on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shocking Fatality at Creswick. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne
A telegram from Creswick states that information of a distressing occurrence has been received from Smeaton. George South, a miner, employed on the Hepburn Estate, with his two stepsons,…
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A SERIOUS accident happened this morning, at about 9 o'clock, to a Chinese hawker named Ah Hain, aged 20, whilst he was driving his vegetable cart in St. John's…
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MELBOURNE, This Day.--George Bye died at the hospital this morning from the effects of injury to the head, sustained by a stone thrown by boys who were…
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PENRITH, This Day.--A boy named Henry Hurds, a son of the railway gatekeeper at Penrith, met with a fatal accident about 5 o'clock on Saturday…
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A carter named George Alexander Baker was yesterday riding a horse in Oxford-street when the animal slipped on the wooden blocks and foll upon him, causing him injuries which were…
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HOBART, This Day.--Two bays, sons of Detective Franklyn, went out in a box in an old quarry-hole containing water. Both were drowned…
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Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., held a magisterial inquiry at the North Sydney Morgue on Monday, relative to the death of the man since identified as one Ingerman, whose body was found…
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