Accidentally Drowned
WAGGA WAGGA, Friday. -- A coronial inquiry was held yesterday into the circumstances attending the drowning of Blanche Ah Fee on Tuesday, when a decision was…
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Drowned
Two young men were drowned on Sunday, while bathing. Frank Greaves, who was one of the crew of the Irene when she capsized in October last, and who rescued two of the…
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On New Year's Day a party of fifteen young men left Rushcutter Bay, Port Jackson, in the half-decker Tennyson, for a sail round the harbor. They landed at Manly and several…
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A man about 30 years of age was drowned in the river near Narrandera on Saturday whilst bathing. His mates saw him sink, three times, and then went for assistance. The body was easily recovered by the…
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MELBOURNE, Jan. 2.—Mr. Walter H. Mott, proprietor of the Hawthorn ADVERTISER, and son of Mr. G. H. Mott, of the firm of Messrs. Gordon and Goteb, was drowned in the Yarra at Kew…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Another Drowning Accident. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Perth
Another drowning accident has occurred. A little boy, the son of Mr. F. Thompson of the Works Department, residing at Freshwater Bay, went down to the river yesterday morning. When…
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A horrible accident occurred at the Proprietary mine smelting works last Saturday morning, whereby a man was burned to death by molten slag. From what can be gathered it appears that Henry Brame, aged 60, who…
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The City Coroner held an inquest at the South Sydney Morgue, on January 2, on the body of George Drevar, who was drowned in No. 6 Dam, Centennial Park, on January 1. Evidence…
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An accident occurred at the Oakleigh railway station on the Gippsland line early on Sunday. A goods train from Warragul came into collision with another train standing near…
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BRISBANE, Jan. 23.—A boat containing Messrs. W. F. N. Clayton. F. W. Smith, school teachers, and Patrick Rooney, a lad, upset in Keppel Bay on Thursday. The two first-named started to…
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At Mount Macquarie on the 2nd instant two little girls, children of D. Arthur, a farmer, aged 9 and 6 years, and a daughter of J. Hoadley, farmer, went to a dam in the neighbourhood of their homes to bathe…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—At the Oakleigh railway station on the Gippsland line, an accident occurred at an early hour on Sunday morning. A goods train from Warragul rushed into a…
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An accident, which nearly terminated fatally, occurred at the Echuca Wharf to the son of the Rev. Mr. Sandiford; a Church of England clergyman. The lad…
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AUCKLAND, Thursday.—A shocking fatelity is reported from the country district in Otago. A hut occupied by a man named George Ashwell, his wife, and two children, took fire on New Year's…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--Owing to an unexpected explosion in the Lazarus Company's mine, Sandhurst, a miner named Moyle was killed this morning and four others were…
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Traffic on the northern railways in Queensland is still blocked in consequence of the .heavy floods.A man named James Moyle was killed, and…
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A schoolboy named Robert Clarke, aged 10 years, had a miraculous escape from being instantely shot dead at his parents' residence, in Isabella-street, Waverley, about 5 o'clock on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Accident in Victoria. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne
As the Inglewood train was commit into the Maryborough station this afternoon a pilot engine, engaged in shunting, was coming in the same direction. A shunter named Gallagher, not seeing…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fatal Mimng Accident at Hillgrove. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Hillgrove
At 6 o'clock this morning a miner named Michael Greeny was killed at the Golden Gate mine. He was working in the night shift with a mate named Phillips, who had fired a shot Greeny went down the shaft,…
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