Accident to a Guard. Bathurst
Guard Frederick Ainsworth, resident at Penrith, fell off the goods train about 800yd. from Bathurst station this morning. His left leg was broken and his right ear badly…
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Accident at the Eveleigh Workshops
Shortly before 9 o'clock yesterday morning, Thomas Dickens, foreman of the carriage shop at the railway workshops at Eveleigh, met with a serious accident,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cable Tram Accident
Yesterday afternoon the lady who was so seriously injured on the previous day by falling from a cable tram in the New South Head-road, was identified in St. Vincent's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to a Railway Guard
BATHURST, Friday. -- Frederick Ainsworth, the guard of the goods train from Penrith to Bathurst, fell from the brakevan of the train when near Vale Creek this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Drowned at Narrabeen. a Boy's Fate
A DROWNING fatality occurred at the lagoon, Narrabeen, on Friday night. Ernest Crocket, 4, a waiter, employed at the Rock Lily Hotel, in the company of William Hunter,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Glenfinlas-montrosa Collision. Enquiry at Newcastle. NEWCASTLE, Saturday Night
THE Marine Board sat till a late hour tonight enquiring into the cause of the collision between the ships Glenfinals and Montrosa. Mr. Windeyer appeared for the captain of the…
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A LITTLE lad, named Leslie Scott, 6 years of age, upset a pot of tea over himself at his parents' residence, North Botany, and Was so severely scalded that he had to be taken to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cable Tram Accident
THE elderly lady, Mrs. Shearston, who fell from a cable tram on Thursday, and is now in St. Vincent's Hospital, was at a late hour last night in a very precarious condition, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sad Drowning Accident. Goulburn
A sad fatality occurred this afternoon near the Kenmore Asylum. Edith Leigh, a girl 11 years of age, whose parents reside at No. 91 Phillipstreet, Waterloo, was playing near the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Narrabeen Fatality
At an inquiry held at Narrabeen on Saturday into the circumstances attending the death of a lad named Crocket, a finding of accidental death was recorded…
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WENTWORTH, Saturday.--The weather is extremely hot, the thermometer having registered 112 in the shade on several occasions during the past three weeks. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowned at Narrabeen
An inquliy was held on Saturday will reference to the death of a waiter named Arthor Crocket, who was drowned in the Narrabeen lagoon on Friday night. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Child Drowned
GOULBURN, Saturday.--A little girl named Edith Leigh was drowned in the Wollondilly River this afternoon, near Kenmore Asylum. She was swinging from a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Hontrosa-glenfinlas Collision
NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--A special meeting of the Marino Board was held yesterday, to inquire into the collision between…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Carrier Injured
A carrier named James Cody, 24 years of age, employed by Mr. M'Carthy, was this afternoon crushed between a cart and a wheel, and had his thigh fractured. He…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Found Drowned. a Vegetarian's End
The body of a young man named John Treleaven, a greengrocer, was found floating in Cook's River, at the foot of Garnet-street, Canterbury, about 5 o'clock this morning. The discovery…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Marine Board Inquiry. Montrosa-glenfinals Collision
A special meeting of the Newcastle Marine Board was held on Saturday to inquire into the collision between the barques Montrosa and Glenfinlas. Paul von Ehren, master of the Montrosa,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Drowned at Narrabeen. Swimming in the Lagoon
Senior-sergeant M'Intosh, officer in charge of the Manly police district, reported to the City Coroner this morning the death of a boy named Ernest Crocket…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Taken by a Shark a Baffler Killed. Shocking Fatality at Pyrmont
A shocking bathing fatality occurred in Johnston's Bay this afternoon. At about a quarter past 2 four boys, of whom William Ready, 11 years, and nine months…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Another Sad Fatality. a Boy Attacked by a Shark. Terrible Mutilation of the Victim. a Brave Attempt at Rescue
About a quarter past 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon five young boys, quite oblivious of the danger incurred in open sea-bathing, went for a swim in Johnstone's Bay at Py[?]mont. Their…
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