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A boy named Robert Clarke, 10½ years of age, had a very lucky escape yesterday from being killed by a shot from a revolver. From what can be gathered it appears that the boy, who lives with his parents at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →On Sunday three young men, named William Tuckey, Stephen Tuckey, and E. C Evans, arrived in a sailing boat at the South Passage, near Fremantle, from Mandurrah. The boat capsized and…
Continued on Trove, page 74 →A terrible and fatal accident occurred on the 4th at the School Reserve deep shaft. Four men were down boring with, the machine when an explosion was heard, and on Mr. Beath…
Continued on Trove, page 74 →The necessity of introducing some reforms upon the present system of hiring boats is one which is tragically brought home to us on almost every holiday. The two most considerable boat…
Continued on Trove, page 68 →The train due at Carcoar at 3.30 a.m. on Saturday from Harden, met with an accident near Holm wood station. The engine with carriages and brake-van, ran off the rails. A passenger states that at the time…
Continued on Trove, page 104 →A despatch from New York, states that a, caisson (the wooden case in which the piers of the bridge are built within the water) of an unfinished bridge, which is being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An accident of a peculiar nature occurred here yesterday afternoon. It appears that a resident here, named Mrs. Rousfield, was travelling in a train with her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →UPON inquiry at the Sydney Hospital this morning we learn that the boy Robert Clarke, who was accidentally shot in the cheek by another lad yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Minister for Works a few days ago appointed Messrs. W. Wardell and R. Saunders a board to investigate the cause of the Prospect Quarry accident. These gentlemen visited the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GOULBURN, Tuesday—A serious accident befel Miss Winifred Butler, daughter of the late Mr. E. Butler, Q.C, on Monday. She was riding on horseback down the main street of the town,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →ADELAIDE, Jan. 3.—A fatal accident occurred on Thursday night, on the Urardla-road. Mrs. Cowley, of Port Adelaide, was returning from Port Adelaide in a four-horse van. The road is…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →PARRAMATTA, Wednesday.—A girl named Ethel Roberts, aged 15, was driving a milk cart along Railway-street, Harris Park, at 7 o'clock on Tuesday night, when the horse took fright and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Yesterday afternoon the town was thrown into a state of alarm when it was known that a fearful tragedy had occurred. About twenty minutes to 2 o'clock a young…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--In the case of the inquest on the body of John Macready, found washed up on St. Kilda beach, medical evidence showed, though death was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A boy, 7 years old, the only child of G. Evans, of the Gum Hotel, near Coolamon, was drowned whilst bathing in a tank. A man went to fill his water-bag at the tank…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The body of a little boy named Fitzgerald was found floating in the harbor this morning. He had been missing from home since Tuesday last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--J. Fredericks, Christopher Kelly, H. Barman and J. Tippet, the surviving victims of the fatal explosion at the Lazarus mine, Sandhurst, are still in a critical…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At about 6 p.m. on Saturday a fire was dis-covered in the iron foundry of Messrs. Triggs and Marr, Miller-street, Pyrmont. One side of the building was damaged by fire and water. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, January 10.—Another terrible accident is reported from America. While a number of men were at work in a caisson of a bridge in course of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WEST MAITLAND, Saturday.—A railway employee named Frederick Bennett had one of his fingers severely crushed at West Maitland on Wednesday night, while engaged uncoupling some…
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