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A porter named Henry Meegan, 35, employed at the Hotel Arcadia, was seriously injured last night by falling down the lift well. Meegan was on the first floor waiting to ascend by the lift. The night porter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. William Shaw, whilst working at Moxham's quarry on Monday last, met with a severe accident. He was driving a team, when one of the horses suddenly shied. Mr. Shaw…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Joseph Roughley, sen., of Dural, was unloading cases from his cart at Thornleigh station on Tuesday last, when his horse started at a passing train, and Mr. Rougaley was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. Benson and a lady bad a nasty driving accident in Ermington on Sunday. The horse shied at Rome cattle and overturned the sulky throning into occupants into the road. It then…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A somewhat serious burning accident occurred at Mrs. S. Billington's residence in Cemetery-road, Field of Mars, on Monday last. A young lady, Miss Adams, 16 years of age, was standing close to a fire in the yard…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Saturday evening last, Mrs James Billington, senr. of Ryde, a lady of 72 years of age, met with a somewhat serious accident at Drummoyne. With her two sons, Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A lift accident occurred at the Hotel Arcadia last night resulting in grave injury to a man named Henry Meegan, aged 35, a waiter employed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—A sad drowning accident is reported from Dandenong, about 18 miles from Melbourne, by which a railway line repairer, named Holland, and his son, with another, boy named…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →ON Tuesday a magisterial enquiry was conducted by Mr. T.E. MacNevin, P.M., District Coroner, into the circumstances of the death of a child named Maud Margaret Isabel Berry…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Many of the residents of Parramatta were terribly shocked on Thursday morning by the receipt of news of an accident at Cootamundra to a railway official connected by several ties…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The training ship Sobraon during a strong gust of wind yesterday afternoon broke away from her moorings and drifted across towards Long Nose Point, where she was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Professor "Wallace, of the Oxford University, was killed by a fall from a bicycle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sensation was caused on the Flemington training track this morning by Newhaven slipping aud falling whilst doing a gallop with Fadladson. Walter Hickenbotham, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A lad named Richard James Drinkwater, 6 years of age, was drowned near his parents' residence, Waratah, this morning. It seems that the boy had been sent a message and did not return. His hat…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A boy named William Hogan, 6, residing at Little Queen-street, Chippendale, was rescued from drowning at Clontarf yesterday afternoon by a young man named Frank Hainnell, living at 322…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A boy named Richard James Drinkwater, aged six years, was drowned in a waterhole near his parents' residence yesterday morning. A lad named Watson saw the child's hat floating on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Professor W. Wallace, M.A., Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Oxford University, has been killed by an accident whilst riding his bicycle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Early on Sunday morning a fire broke out in a large stable at the rear of the Oxford Hotel, Carrington-road, Waverley, resulting in a single young man named George Edward Eagleton, aged 19…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Advices from Crete state that a popular vote taken in the different provinces of the island has resulted in the whole of the provinces voting in favour of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, February 20.—The Powers, especially Russia, Germany, and Austria, are greatly incensed at the obstinacy of Greece in regard to Crete…
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