A Fatal Slip. Drowned in a Water-hole. GRAFTON
A lad named Eaton was accidentally drowned at Fisher Park on Tuesday through Slipping into a water-hole. When the body was recovered the heart was beating, but…
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Accidents and Offences
On Wednesday night Pierre Donar, a New Caledonian refugee, escaped from Pentrdge, where he had been undergoing a long sentence, of which he had only ten months to serve. He…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Recent Lamp Accident in South Australia. Report by the Railway Commissioners., [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Adelaide
The Railway Commissioners have sent in a report on the inquiry held as to the cause of the accident to the northern train resulting in the death of Mr. Ramsay. The entire document was read and…
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A YOUNG fellow named Christian Anderson, a seaman on board the A.U.S.N. Co.'s steamer Rockton, sustained some rather serious internal injuries this morning. He…
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About 5 o'clock last evening the dead body of a man, who has been identified in a wharf labourer named Robert M'Cauley, was found. floating in the water, near the Clarence and Richmond Biver Company's…
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THE body of a wharf laborr [?]med Robert M'Cauley was last evening [?]overed floating in the harbor near [?] C.R. and M.R.S.N. Co's Wharf by Robert Haynes…
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NEWCASTLE, Saturday. — The residents of Hexham were terribly shocked, on Friday evening, to hear that two little boys named Herbert Schuck and Daniel Lentott had been drowned in…
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By the arrival of the schooner George Noble from the Gilbert Group news has been received of the capsizing of the American schooner Tierdon, and the drowning of thirteen natives. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sad Case of Drowning. [By Telegraph.] (Froh Our Correspondent.) Moree
A sad case of drowning is just reported as having occurred eight miles from Kunopia. Three sisters— Miss Boland (19), Mary Boland (14), Amy Jane Boland (10), and Miss Fanny Allison were…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Gunpowder Explosion.--a Workman Injured. (By Telegraph.)
MELBOURNE Friday.--While a workman named Woolcock was engaged tamping a blast of gunpowder at Moreland in connection with thee works for laying waterpipes, the gunpowder…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Death in a Well. a Mother and Child Drowned. COWRA
A sad case of drowning occurred last night. Mrs. M'Dowell, wife of the proprietor of the Railway Hotel, and her child were found dead in a well at the rear of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Tram Horror. Fatality in Oxford-street. A Little Girl Cut to Pieces
ANOTHER shocking tramway fatality occurred this morning. At 20 minutes to 9 o'clock the Paddington tram was proceeding along Oxford-street, there being three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →4 o'clock Edition. Konoowarra-ranelagh Collision. Seizure of the Konoowarra. BRISBANE
In connection with the seizure of the steamer Konoowarra, the A.U.S.N. Co. claim L2000 damages for the collision with the Ranelagh in the Mary River. Arrangements…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Ranelagh-konoowarra Collision. Arrest of the Konoowarra--£2000 Damages Claimed. (By Telegraph.)
BRISBANE, Friday.--In connection with the accident to the steamer Konoowarra, the A.U.S.N. Company claim £2000 damage, as the result of the collision with the…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—A man named James Woolcock was seriously injured this morning while laying water pipes at Moreland, on the Sydney-road, by an explosion of gunpowder. One…
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Three sisters named Boland were bathing in the Barwon River, about eight miles from Kunopia, when one of them got out of her depth, and the others went to her rescue. The result…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Accidents in Victoria
On Saturday James Richards, mine manager of the Great Southern Gold-mining Company, Sandhurst, met a terrible death. On the 7th instant No. 6 shaft which is 400ft. deep, was found to be on fire, supposed…
Continued on Trove, page 386 →Shocking Fatal Accident in Melbourne. Melbourne
Early this morning Samuel J. Cole, a building contractor, met with a terrible death at the Adelaide-chambers, Queen-street—a building of five storeys, where a fire recently occurred in the top…
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In the District Court yesterday William Bulfin, of Newport, sued W. A. Harper, son., for L200 damages sustained through an accident. The plaintiff was driving…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Mining Accident. Buried by a Fall of Coal. NEWCASTLE
Thomas Close, a miner, met with a serious accident in the Glebe pit yesterday morning through a fall of coal which took place while he was holeing. On being extricated…
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