Accidents and Offences
Adam J. Hawthorn, who was arrested a few days ago in women's clothing at Lismore, has bean committed for trial on a charge of obtaining £20 from a local auctioneer by false pretences…
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Accident to the Manapouri
MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The s.s. Manapouri arrived yesterday. It is reported that on Sunday, while blowing fresh with a high sea, the fore connecting rod broke,…
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A LABORER named James Smith, aged 45, was standing in a dray which was being driven through the gates of a timber-yard in Hay-street yesterday afternoon, when…
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MELBOURNE. Thursday.--The steamer Manapouri arrived from New Zealand to-day. Three days after leaving Dunedin the engines became partially disabled by tho fore connecting rod…
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A shocking drowning fatality took place at Canterbury on Wednesday, January 8, near the Brighton Avenue Bridge. Two boys named respectively Willie and George Hap Sing, sons of a…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Terrible floods occurred in the Gladstonbury Creek, 13 miles from Gympie, on Monday night. The creek ordinarily is a shallow stream, but rose in…
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The Ballarat STAR records the following:-"An elderly man named John Carey, an employe of the Railway Department, well known in connection with the goods trade at Ballarat West, met with a most peculiar and…
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ADELAIDE, SATURDAY.-A dreadful burning accident took place on Friday evening, in one of the carriages attached to the Broken Hill train. The Hon. J. G…
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William George Wilson has given himself up to the police at Wagga charging himself with having embezzled the sum of £2 9s, the property of his employers,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Accident in America. London, Jan. 12
A railway accident has occurred at Sydney, a settlement on the Union Pacific Railroad, in Nebraska Territory, U. S. The train caught fire, and the whole of…
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Charles Linguist, who had both his legs fractured at the Hastings railway station last night to such an extent as to necessitated the both limbs died in…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.--The inquiry into the railway accident which occurred at Oakleigh was commenced yesterday. Counsel is engaged for all parties, and the inquiry…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday.--An accident of a dreadful nature happened on Thursday night to Mr. J. G. Ramsay, M.L.C., who was a passenger by the northern train to…
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AN accident, resulting in a wharf laborer named William Webb sustaining injuries from which serious, if not fatal, results are apprehended,…
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MURRURUNDI, Saturday.--Owing to the recent rains, one of the telegraph-poles about 100yd. south of the station, and where the wires cross the line gave way…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--Donald M'Carthy, a railway laborer, was cut to pieces at Richmond station this morning. He was working on the line when the Oakleigh express dashed into…
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HOBART, Friday.--A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest into the death of Mr. John Lord, M.L.C., caused through a cab horse bolting. The evidence showed that a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Oakleigh Railway Accident. Extraordinary Speed of a Goods Train. (By Telegraph.)
MELBOURNE, Friday.--The coronial inquiry into the death of Lay Bo Lung, killed by the late collision between two goods trains at Oakleigh, was advanced a further stage to-day. The…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.--A terrible accident happened to-night to Mr. J. G. Ramsay, M.L.C. He was coming to Adelaide in the north train, being alone in a first-class compartment, when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accidents on the Railway in Victoria. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne
About 8 o'clock this morning a navvy named Daniel M'Carthy was engaged with others working on the Richmond line, when a special from Melbourne to Oakleigh came up…
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