COUNTRY. Accident to an Old Miner
NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--A serious accident occurred yesterday at the Co-operative Colliery to a nun named William Fisher. It appears that the unfortunate man was in…
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Fatality at Newcastle. a Sailor Drowned. NEWCASTLE
A seaman named Thomas Johnston lost his life under distressing circumstances yesterday afternoon. He was engaged painting the side of the T.S.N. Co.'s steamer Talune,…
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An inquest was held at Seven Hills on Wednesday, by Mr. E. H. Matthews, J.P., on the body of an infant nearly 2 years of age, named Martha Theresa Howard, who was drowned in a…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Robert Agnew, aged 30, met with an extraordinary death some time during last night or early this morning. He was found hanging on the picket fence of…
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An inquest was held at the South Sydney Morgue yesterday, respecting the death of a man, name unknown, whose body was found floating in the water of No. 8 dam in Centennial…
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The City Coroner hold an inquest in the South Sydney Morgue yesterday relative to the death of a man, name unknown, whose body was found floating in one of the lakes in the Centennial. Park…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Death by Drowning. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Mount M'donald
On Monday night it was reported to the police here that one of Mr. Edward Killen's men, from River[?]a station, on the Lachlan, was missing, and was supposed to be drowned. On Tuesday morning Constable…
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This afternoon a seaman named Thomas Johnstone, belonging to the Tasmanian steamer T[?]ne, whilst p[?]ting the ship's side, fell overboard into the harbour and was drowned. The body has not yet been…
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ROCKHAMPTON (Q.) Thursday Mr. Charles Johnson, manager of tie Mount Morinish Gold Mine, met with a serious accident on Tuesday. Shortly after 8 o'clock Mr. Johnson wished to go…
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An accident of a serious nature happened shortly after 7 o'clock this morning in the Eveleigh railway tunnel, when a laboring man, "whose name is at present unknown, was knocked down…
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Peter Olsen, a Norwegian, was arrested at Newcastle early this morning on a charge of committing a rape on Sarah Elliott, aged 14½ years, on Monday last. The girl states that…
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WHILST carrying some timber yesterday at Heaton's timberyard, North Shore, a laborer named Alfred Adamson, 27, living in Mitchell-street, North Shore, met with a serious…
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THE tunnel near the Redfern railway station, already notorious for the number of shocking fatalities which have occurred within its dark walls was the scene of…
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Although the police have been dragging since Wednesday Inst for the body of Johnston, the seamen who fell into the harbor while painting the bulwarks of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Drowning Case at Mount M'donald. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Mount M'donald
At the inquest held last night on the man drowned in the Lachlan, it transpired that his name was Harry Thompson Webb. It appears he had been a clerk or in busineas. He and his wife were engaged in Sydney…
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An elderly woman named Catherine King was placed under chloroform to undergo an operation in the Melbourne Hospital on Thursday, bat she died immediately after the administration of the…
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A laboring man, named Alfred Adamson, expired in Sydney Hospital last night. The deceased was admitted to the hospital, on Wednesday last, suffering from a compound fracture of the right…
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As was expected the unfortunate man who was run over by a train in the Eveleigh railway tunnel yesterday (the particulars of which were reported in our first edition) succumbed…
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After the 6.25 a.m. train from Parramatta to Sydney yesterday had passed through the Redfern milway tunuel, some railway employeen, on walking through the tunnel, found a man, a…
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Another has been added to the list of those who have lost their lives in the Redfern railway tunnel. Early yesterday morning, as a railway official was passing through tho tunnel he…
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