The Yarra Tunnel Fatality
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The inquiry into the South Yarra sewer tunnel fatality concluded to-day. Clarence M'Kenzie, one of the contractors, reiterated statements previously made, that he…
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Drowned in the Harbor
Yesterday afternoon a boy named Henry Kettley, aged 14, son of Mr. Kettley, restaurant-keeper, of Hunter-street West, fell off the Carrington Bridge while fishing there, into deep…
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At the Redfern Police Court yesterday, William Watkins, 34, dealer, was charted with having behaved in a riotous manner in Walker-street, Redfern, on the 10th instant. Accused was fighting and…
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John Churchier, 36, a painter, was admitted to Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday by [?] Dixon, suffering from an injury to the back of the head. Churchler resides at Regent-street…
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The police have not yet ascertained the identity of an elderly man who sustained a fracture at the base of the skull last night by a heavy fall on the pavement at the corner of…
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The young man who was admitted to Balmain Cottage Hospital last night suffering from concussion of the brain, caused by a fall, was identified this morning as Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Workman Injured at Waterloo
While working at Soane's boiling-down establishment at Waterloo yesterday, a workman named James W. Owen, aged 23 years, received a fracture of the nose and an injury to the leg through a brick wall falling…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday Afternoon.-The Carrington Bridge was the scene of a sad accident this afternoon, when a little lad named Kettley, 12 years old, fell from the structure into the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Melbourne Sewer Fatality. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—"Inquirer," writing in your issue of Saturday last, like a great many more that are instructed in sewer work and mining generally, would like to know something of the "modern appliances" used…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Accident at Sea. Propeller Blades Lost
During the run from Aden to Golombo the new German mail steamer Konigin Luise dropped two of the blades of her starboard propeller, which necessitated her detention in Colombo from December 14 till…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident to Mr. Sydney Smith
BATHURST, Wednesday.-Mr. Sydney Smith, Minister for Mines and Agriculture, while out driving with his daughter yesterday afternoon met with an accident. He was driving down hill near…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ranclagh's Accident. Full Particulars. How She Got Ashore. a Passenger's Statement. the VESSEl'S Position. a Hole in Her Bottom
BRISBANE, Wednesday Morning.-A Bundaberg telegram received this morning, dated last night and delayed by interruption of the line, gives the following particulars of the Banelaeh's mishap. A…
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KIAMA, Tuesday.-A serious accident happened at Albion Park yesterday. Mrs. John King, of Mount Terry, in company with a young lady named Miss Hunt, were driving in a buggy down Mount…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Griffo and Tracey. the Rocks' Lad Quits. a Street Car Accident Responsible—Hard Things Said of the Erstwhile Feather-weight—Tracey Defeats Smith
From a St.Louis (U.S.A.) journal of De-cember 19, we cull the following:— "An enormous attendance of people mus-tered in Chicago last night to witness a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident to the Minister for Mines. Bathurst
To-day Mr. Sydney Smith (Minister for Mines) had another narrow escape. He was driving along near Macquarie when the horse bolted and smashed the buggy. Mr. Smith was thrown violently to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to the Austrian Gunboat Albatros
Colombo was reached by the Austrian gunboat Albatros on the 10th ultimo on her way home. The vessel, as may be remembered, was in Sydney twice in connection with a scientific expedition she was engaged upon to the Solomon…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Queensland. Accident to a Steamer. Brisbane
A telegram from Bundaberg states that the steamer Ranelagh dragged her anchors and went ashore on the rocks at Burnett Heads, knocking a hole in her bottom. When the vessel struck the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Terrible Burning Accident. a Sydney Man Falls on a Hot Steam-pipe in a Bath. His Flesh Adhered to the Pipe Like a Steak to a Fryingpan. an Awful Sight
While in a bath in Pitt-street, a Mr. Jarvis had the misfortune to slip and fall on the hot water pipes, and before he could be rescued he was scalded and burnt in a terrible way…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Explosion of Chemicals. Serious Accident
A peculiar accident took place at Messrs. Washington H. Soul and Co.'s 'Parramatta establishment yesterday. Mr. Ryder, the manager of the Parramatta…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatalities and Accidents. an Infant Killed at Leichhardt
Harold Herbert t Hellyer, aged 21 months, was run over by a cart and killed on Monday evening opposite his parents residence at Flood-street, Leiichhardt. The child ran into the road with an umbrella in his hand…
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