Fatal Railway Accident
AT the new railway-line near Gordon, a fatal accident occurred yesterday afternoon to a navvy named John Lyons, aged 45 years, and unmarried. The…
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Another Gun Accident
BATHURST, Thursday.--A young man named William Short was brought to the hospital last night from Sunny Corner, suffering from a shot wound in the thigh. He had been engaged in…
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GOULBURN, Thursday.--A sad accident, having a fatal termination, occurred yesterday at Baw Baw. Geo. Harris, residing at Lyanon, Baw Baw, left his house on horseback in the…
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A very narrow escape from a watery grave occurred at the Balmain Ferry at a quarter past 8 o'clock this morning. As the Balmain ferry steamer was approaching the wharf, a man…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boating Fatality in New Zealand. Two Men Drowned. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) Auckland
A boat containing a fishing party capsized at Pourere, Hawkes Bay. Two men, named Dixon (manager of the Pourere run) and Kennedy (a blacksmith), were drowned. The former, who was…
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MELBOURNE, This Day. -- Thos. Geddes, stonemason, was killed by the Richmond train knocking him down and running over him…
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Wellington, This Day. -- John Dixon, a station manager, and a blacksmith named Kennedy, were drowned while out with a fishing party at Hawke's Bay…
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Auckland, Monday.— News is to hand that H.M.S. Hyacinth has arrived are Honolulu, having on board 24 sailors belonging to the Harmful ship Hermann and the Swedish barque 'Virge, both of…
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The Rev. Father M'Cormack met with a severe buggy accident last Friday, on the Graftonâroad, near Armidale. It appears that Father M'Cormack and a little…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Terrible Tornado in America. Enormous Damage to Property. Hundreds of Lives. Lost--thousands Injured. Churches, Buildings and Hamlets Levelled. the Niagara Bridge Wrecked
LONDON, Thursday.--America has been visited by some terrible cyclones. At Reading, a town in Pennsylvania, enormous damage was done to property, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Terrible Cyclone in America. a Suspension Bridge Wrecked. Dreadful Destruction of Life and Property. Hundreds of Lives Lost. Thousands of People Injured. London, January 10
The tornado in the United States took an easterly path, and extended to a width of 200ft. In its destructive course it passed through the States of Ohio,…
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YOUNG, Saturday.-At half-past 3 o'clock the morning the engine attached to the night special from Blayney to Harden broke down eight or nine miles from Young, and another engine had to be…
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WEST MAITLAND, Friday.-An old and respected resident of West Maitland, named John Bowden, warden of the district council, had a marvellous escape from being killed this afternoon…
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A street orderly boy named Edward Nyberg met with a serious accident in Melbourne on Thursday. A hansom cab and horse collided with a tramcar at the corner of Flinders-lane and…
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BATHURST, Friday.-A young man named William Short was brought to the hospital on Thursday night from Sunny Corner, suffering from a shot wound in the thigh. He had been…
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A tram accident happened on Wednesday afternoon, in Collins-street, Melbourne. A lorry carrying, a large load, on the top of which the driver was seated, was descending the hill…
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AN inquest was hold at M'Grath'a Hill, Windsor, on Monday, respecting the cause of death of Mrs. Catherine Cunneen, widow. From the evidence it appeared that the old lady, on her way to church…
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London, January 2.—The judge appointed to inquire into tho accident that occurred to the Czar's train on the Azov railway, in October last, has made a report to the authorities, which…
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A Russian officer, who was an eye-witness of the perilous accident on the Azov railway, between Taranovka and Borki. on October 29, by which the lives of the Emperor Alexander III. and the Empress were…
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On the morning of the 2nd instant, James Mattcottand Alexander Hobson, miners at the Pearl mine, Sandhurst, were engaged in charging a hole having a keg of powder beside them. While trying tin old piece of…
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