Floating Down the River. An Old Man Drowned. LISMORE
An old man named Westcott was found drowned floating down the river yesterday afternoon. An inquest will be held to-morrow…
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Accidents and Offences
A large stable belonging to J. S. Edmondson and Co., Mittagong, eight miles from Yurong Creek, was struck by lightning and caught fire during a thunderstorm on Friday evening. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Gun Accident. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Goulburn
A blacksmith named Matthew Lynch, residing at Tarago, was out on Lake Bathurst on Saturday morning in a boat. While pulling a gun out from under the seat the weapon exploded, the charge lodging in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Accident at the Wallsend Colliery. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle
An inquent was held on Saturday evening at Wallsend by Coroner Martin on the body of the lad George Ebenezer Green, employed at the Wallsend Colliery, who mot his death a few hours previously by…
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THE City Coroner to-day inquired into the death of a man named Michael Casey, who died at the Sydney Hospital, on Sunday night from injuries received on January 17…
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LISMORE, Tuesday.--The body of a man named Westcott was found floating in the river near the bridge yesterday. The body was recovered by the police. A bundle of new…
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GRAFTON, Tuesday.--The body of a man named Eastman was found floating in Whiteman's Creek yesterday. He had evidently been drowned same days. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Explosion. Two Men Injured. HILLGROVE
Another explosion occurred here this morning at Baker's Creek, by Which two men named Brown and Reid were injured. While blasting operations were being…
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A fire occurred at Chapman's private family hotel at Bairnsdale (Vic.) on Tuesday morning, 19 rooms being destroyed. At the Melbourne City Court on Tuesday the…
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A man named Charles Dickie, 33, who resided in Chippendale, died in Sydney Hospital this morning. Deceased was admitted to the hospital on Sunday suffering from severe injury to his…
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An inquest was held in the Coroner's Court, Chancery-square, yesterday, concerning the death of a man named Michael Casey, who died in Sydney Hospital on Sunday night from…
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An enginefitter named Charley Braga, 22, living at No, 21, Georee-street west, was admitted to, Sydney Hospital on Tuesday evening suffering from a severe scalp wound on the back of the…
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An inquest was held in the Coroner's Court on Monday, by the City Coroner, on the body of a man named Michael Casey, who on the 17th January received certain injuries, by being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Accident at Baker's Creek. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Hillgrove
Another accident from a gunpowder explosion at Baker's Creek occurred at 9 o'clock this morning. Two miners, named Tom Brown and [?]atrick Reid, were working a stope between Barnsfield and Smith's tunnel, when a…
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ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--A wire from Mallala states that Mr. Robert Marshman, of Grace Plain was missed yesterday, and after a long search his body was found in a well 80ft. deep…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Fatality at Eveleigh. a Must Killed
Another railway accident, which terminated [?]tally, happened at about half-past 10 o'clock this morning. From what can be gathered it seems that unfortunate fellow is believed to be named…
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An elderly man, named Edward Boss, was, on "Wednesday, committed for trial in Melbourne for shooting, with intent to murder, Mary Jennings, aged 67, at a boarding-house in Latrobe-street…
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The City Coroner held an inquestin his Court, Chancery-square, yesterday relative to the death of a man named Charles Dickie, who died in the Sydney Hospital yesterday morning. Deceased was a widower with three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to the Barque Sharpshooter
Never perhans will the barque Sharpshooter be nesretdisappearing, without absolutely going down, than she was last Tuesday, when not a hundred miles off this coast. How near she was to foundering may be judged…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shocking Railway Accident. Eveleigh Again. a Young Man Killed
AN accident by which a young man, whose name is believed to be Sydney Lee, lost his life, occurred near the Eveleigh platform this morning. Lee who is said…
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