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The Rev. A. Carnegie, Wesleyan minister, in charge of the Shepparton district, was drowned in the Goulburn River this morning whilst bathing alone. He left at half-past 5 o'clock, expressing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE Monday.—The fire which occurred at Levy Bros, is still burning. This morning the third flat collapsed with a crash. The flames shot up again; but the firemen were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Monday afternoon the body of the young man Arthur Goddard, who was drowned on New Year's Day through the capsizing of the sailing boat Tennyson, was found floating in Rose Bay,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BROKEN HILL, Monday.—A painful accident, with a fatal result, occurred at the new smelters on the Proprietary Mine, on Saturday morning, to a smelter named Henry Brame, aged 60…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.—A fatal accident happened to a man named John Flagar, near Dent's Hotel, Lambton, on Saturday afternoon. He was proceeding with a load of cordials from Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A man named Moore, employed as a shop assistant at Marsden's Store, Smithtown, was drowned whilst bathing on Monday night. Crow's Courthouse Hotel, Cobar, was entered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →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 5 →A youth named Leonard Steine, son of C. Staine, of the Vineyard, Pomingarlarna, met with a painful accident on Sunday. The thumb of his left hand was jammed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The inquest on tho body of the man Prame, who was fatally burned by the upsetting of the contents of a slag pot at the smelters here on Saturday, resulted in a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GOULBURN, Monday.--Miss Butler, daughter of the late Mr. E. Butler, Q.C., whose case recently occupied the attention of the Supreme Court for a considerable time, met with an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday,--Driver Nixon and Fireman Rounds, of the milk train which collided with another milk train yesterday morning, have both been suspended. It is alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Union Steamship Company's steamer Arawata was due here, it was thought, on Sunday and her non-arrival caused a little surprise. She put in an appearance yesterday at 1 p.m. and reports having left Auckland at noon on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—It is most extraordinary that, notwithstanding the many fatal accidents which have happened in connection with the upsetting of hired sailing boats in the harbour during the last few years, the Government have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday three young men, named William Tuckey, Stephen Tuckey, and E. C. Evans, arrived in a sailing boat at the South Passage, near Freemantle, from Mandurrah. The boat capsized and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The R.M.S. Ballaarat, which arrived at Albany yesterday from London, brings the following details of the arrival of Stanley and Emin Pasha at Bagamoyo:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Lady of the Lake was not snagged, as reported. Captain Payne states that the steamer whilst proceeding slowly down stream, towing two barges laden with wool, ran into an old sunken barge,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →About a quarter to 10 o'clock last evening, an unknown man fell off the wharf, near to the Manly jetty, Circular Quay, and was drowned. A man named Daniel Harrington witnessed the occurrence. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—On Monday evening a young girl named Nelson, residing in Mill-street, Albert Park, was gathering seaweed on the steps of a jetty at Kerferd-road, South Melbourne,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The commencement of this year will be noted for the number of drowning accidents that have occurred in this as well as other colonies. Another case has been added to the record…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE jury at the Coroner's inquest held to investigate the cause of the deaths of NATHANIEL COOK and SARAH HOGAN at the Volunteer Artillery Hotel in George-street,…
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