Drowning at Botany
A child named Reginald John W. Brown, aged 3, was missed from his home at Botany yesterday, and upon a search being instituted his body was…
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Drowning Case at Bega
BEGA, Monday.--A very sad case of drowning happened here yesterday afternoon. Mr. James Rixon's eight-year-old daughter Jessie had been to Sunday school with some other children, and…
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A carter named Phillip Whitehead, 30, was injured yesterday afternoon in Leichhardt, owing to his horse bolting. The animal was attached to a cart leaded with wood, and on taking fright the driver was…
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The City Coroner yesterday held a magisterial inquiry in connection with the death of a child, aged three, named Reginald John Walker Brown, who was drowned in a waterhole at Botany on Sunday evening…
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DUBBO, Tuesday.—George F. Howard, a selector at Coalbaggie, has died from the effects of a curious accident. He was driving a cow along when his horse ran him against the post of a wire fence, the…
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LONDON, Sunday Night.--News has been received that the steamer City of Agra has been lost off the Spanish port of Corcubion, near Cape Finisterre…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to a Jockey
A jockey named James Faning was injured at Brighton yesterday. Faning was riding in the Brighton Stakes when his horse collided with the fence as it was turning into the straight. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Blasting Accident
Another workman named George Butcher, 41, was injured at the sewerage works in Balmain yesterday, owing, it is stated, to the premature explosion of a blasting charge. Butcher's right hand was shattered…
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KEMPSEY, Tuesday.—The steamer Burrawong is still aground. She lies with her bow on the sand, and her stern is nearer deep water. People can wade out to her, and walk nearly round her. The anchors are…
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WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.—A youth named Joseph M'Menus, employed as waggon greaser by the Mount Pleasant Coal Company, sustained painful injuries yesterday in a very peculiar manner. He was…
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In our last issue we published an account of the accident at Redfern Railway, where Mr. R. D. Jones, the Metropolitan Inspector of Stock, had a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to S.s. Miowera's Boiler. Marine B0ard Inquiry
Yesterday afternoon the Marine Board held an inquiry into the burning of one of the boilers of the s.s. Miowera a few hours after leaving Sydney on he[?] last trip, on 12 th December. Captain Hixson…
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The Marine Board yesterday afternoon made an inquiry into the cause of an accident said to have happened to the Miowera on her last trip from Sydney…
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Charles Ducross, a carrier, aged 48. residing in New Canterbury-road, Petersham, was driving along Cook's River-road, yesterday afternoon, when…
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The Marine Board this morning continued the inquiry into the circumstances attending the accident to a boiler of the R.M.S. Miowera while at sea on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatalities and Accident. Suicide of an Engine-fitter
An engine-fitter mimed Carl Moeller yesterday committed suicide at his residence, Railway-place, city, by shooting himself four times in the head with a revolver. At about 11.30 Mrs. Jago, who resided in the…
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BROKEN-LULL, Monday.--John Glainey, who met with an accident in the open cut of the Block 11 Proprietary mine on January 28, died at the hospital last evening. An inquest was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Drowning Fatality. Grafton
A boy named John Finlay (12), wh[?]e parent[?] reside here, was accidentally drowned while bathing in the river this afternoon…
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GRAFTON, Tuesday. -- John Finlay, a 12 years old son of a warder in the Grafton gaol, was accidentally drowned while bathing in the river this afternoon…
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