Tasmania. Shocking Railway Fatality
HOBART, Tuesday.--George Harper, aged 38, a prospector residing at Newtown, while journeying to Brighton with his family found on joining the train that one child had been left…
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Sad Cash of Drowning. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Milton
A sad case of drowning occurred at Congola Lake on Sunday last. A man named James Peak, a carpenter and joiner, went out for a day's fishing on the lake. As he did not return at the usual time his parents…
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At the inquest held on the body of Thomas Gillon, at Cooma, on Tuesday, the jury found that deceased committed suicide while in a state of unsound mind…
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The Port Jackson (s.), 1728 tons, of London, which left Newcastle for London on January 2, has gone ashore at Perim. She subsequently was got off, and sustained no damage, so far as could be ascertained…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Accident with a Rifle. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Wagga
A little girl named Stewart was accidentally killed at 6 o'clock this evening. She, with her brother, a few years older, and several children, were playing at the residence of the girl's father, James Stewart, farmer,…
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A terribly sad accident with a fatal effect happened yesterday evening at 6 o'clock. Herbert Spencer Stuart, aged 10, a son of James Stuart, of Orange Tree Point dairy,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Sea Island News. Eventful Cruise of the Rockton. Hurricanes and Wrecks. The Riversdale Ashore--Captain and Crew in Danger -- Loss of a Government Mail Schooner--The Crew Drowned
THE A.U.S.N. Co.'s steamship Rockton, Captain C. E. Saunders, returned to harbor this afternoon from an island cruise of a more eventful character than ordinary…
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The prisoner Adone, who escaped from the Adelaide Gaol on Tuesday, was recaptured the same night in a pear tree at West Adelaide. He was discovered in a nude state…
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A carter named Charles Wilcox, 32, living in Avenue-road, Mossmans Bay, was admitted to Sydney Hospital yesterday, suffering from injuries received though a large flywheel falling on both…
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WAGGA WAGGA, Wednesday. -- A magisterial inquiry was held to-day touching the death of a girl, Emily Mary Stewart, aged 4½ years, accidentally killed by a rifle shot yesterday…
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A magisterial inquiry was held here to-day concerning the circumstances surrounding the death of the young girl named Emily Mary Stewart. The evidence showed that the girl was standing near a brick wall…
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Louis Appliger, employed at Geddes and Sons tannery, Botany, was drowned yesterday afternoon while at work. He was employed at one of the pits which had only about…
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THE discovery of the dead body of a man named Louis Appliger in a tan pit was made yesterday afternoon at Messrs. Geddes and Sons' tannery, Botany. The deceased, only…
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MT.M'DONALD,Thursday.—An accident occurred this morning at the Balmoral Mine to a miner named Thomas Williams, one of the heroes of the late battery disaster. A charge exploded,…
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Silk's Commercial Hotel,Tumut,narrowly escaped destruction by fire on Thursday afternoon. The fire, which originated by a spark from the chimney falling on the shingle roof of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Serious Mining Accident. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Mount M'donald
A very serious accident occurred at the Balmoral mine about noon to-day. Thomas Williams was working in one of the winzes in the tunnel charging a hole, when, without the slightest warning, it exploded,…
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NARRAMINE, Thursday.--The Western mail was delayed four hours and a half at Narramine through a special train leaving the road 290 miles from Sydney. The engine and carriage…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.--A fatal accident reported to have happened at Valley Lake, Mount Gambier. Two lads named John and James Boney yesterday went to bathe, and…
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Yesterday aftertoon as the first page of this paper was being printed, an accident happened to our machinery which necessitated ihe broken parts being taken to Sydney to get repaired, thereby…
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A Verdict of accidental death, was returned by the jury at the inquest at Botany on Friday respecting the death of a man named Louis Appliger, who was found drowned in a tan pit at…
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