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KEMPSEY, Thursday.-About half-past six o'clock on Tuesday evening, Grosvenor Bags, second cook and steerage steward on the steamer Burrawong, was drowned. While boarding the vessel, he fell between…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Marine Court of Inquiry to-day investigated the circumstances surrounding the collision between the steamers Casino and Flinders off Apollo Bay on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A cablegram from Christchurch, New Zealand, states that an examination of the spot where the recent coach accident took place shows that the passengers had a narrow escape of all being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest was opened to-day on the body of Samuel J. Williams, M.R.C.S., who died on Monday night from the effects of atropia injected into his arm in mistake…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Inquiry into the Casino-Flinders collision was continued today, when the defence was entered upon. The second mate of the Casino, J. K. Cooper, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Wednesday Night.--The plague in Bombay bus given rise to serious riots, and the authorities, have been compelled to call out troops for the purpose of quelling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HILLGROVE, Friday.-A miraculous escape from sudden death occurred on Wednesday at the Ruby Silver Mine, Rockvale. A miner named Walter Bullen, one of a party engaged in sinking No.5…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A mining accident occurred at the Ruby silver mine, Rockvale. During the night the contractors were sinking No. 5 shaft. One man named Bullen fired two charges of dynamite at the bottom of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →While working at the erection of a crane at Leichhardt yesterday afternoon a labourer named James Walsh, 23, a resident of Trafalgar-street, Annandale, fell to the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The steamer Kadina, under charter to the Adelaide S.S. Company, and engaged in the intercolonial trade, met with an accident in the harbor yesterday morning. The vessel arrived on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AS many of our readers are doubtless aware, deep boring operations are being undertaken in the island of Funafuti, in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--The inquiry into the Collision between the steamers Casino and Flinders off Apollo Bay was continued before the Marine Court to-day. Counsel for Mr. Moore,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →As many of our readers are doubtless aware (writes R.Lydekker, B.A., F.R.S., in "Knowledge") deep boring operations are beong undertaken in the island of Funafuti, in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr Benjamin Loader, whose accident we reported last week, on Monday last became worse, and it was thought advisable to convey him to the Nepean Cottage Hospital,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miss Ethel Hill, a young lady from Richmond, met with a serious cycling accident whilst riding in Parramatta Park yesterday evening just after dusk. She was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The accident occurred at about 1 a.m. on February 28. About 30 or 40 tons of sulphides fell, killing three miners—J. Curtain, J. Cunliffe, and J. Coff—instantly, and seriously injuring two truckers—T. Burns and W. Trewlett. Burns died at 6 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →MR. HENRY GYLES TURNER, manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia in Melbourne, together with his wife and Mr. Hennessy, were returning by coach from Ara Akaroa to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON Monday last, March 7th, a man named Samuel Taylor, 43 year of age, married, and the father of a family, was killed at Circular Quay.' It is an ordinary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The body of the man William Taylor, reported missing yesterday, was found floating in the River Darling this morning, a few hundred yards below his boat. It is supposed that deceased had fallen over…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. on Saturday a number of boys and men were bathing in the surf at Bondi Beach when a lad named Prentice was caught in the undertow and carried out. He…
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