Drowning Fatality
The city coroner, Mr. G. C. Martin, J.P., held an inquest to-day on the body of a lad named Henry Kettley, 13 years of age, who was drowned in the harbour on the previous afternoon. The evidence…
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Drowning Fatality. Wagga Wagga
A fishing party consisting of several ladies and gentlemen went out on Tuesday afternoon to Gumley Common. While the men were fishing the young Indies of the party went for a bathe…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Country News. a Drowning Fatality. Wagga Wagga
A sad drowning fatality occurred yesterday. Miss Rebecca Irving went out on Tuesday afternoon with a party on a fishing excursion to near Gumley Common. The young ladies of the party went into the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in Queensland. Many Brisbane Suburbs Submerged. the River Still Rising. Drowning Cases at Toowong
BRISBANE, Wednesday.-- When day dawned this morning, Scuth Brisbane presented a pitiful scene. The river had risen during the night fully 2ft., and the low-lying portions of South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Accident to the M.m.s. Australien
The following are copies of wire forwarded to Lloyd's: —"Alexandria, December 6: The Anchor Line steamer Asia arrived here to-day with the Messageries Maritimes liner Australian, with 500 passengers on board, in two,…
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A lad named John Broad tray, 14 years of age, lately residing with his parents at Broadmeadow, was drowned in the waterhole at Charlestown this afternoon. It appears that the deceased was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Wharf Accident. An Injured Leg
A painful accident occurred on the Grafton Wharf this morning to a man named Richard Tully. It seems that while preparing an iron wheel along the wharf towards…
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WAGGA, Thursday.--A girl, aged 20, named Rebecca Irving, met her death by drowning on Tuesday night. She was bathing in the river off a beach, where…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Earthquake in the Moluccas. Fifty Inhabitants Killed. Two Hundred Others Injured
LONDON, Thursday.--A terrible earthquake has occurred at Amboina, one of the smaller islands of the Molucca group. Fifty of the inhabitants were killed and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Painful Accident. a Needle in the Knee
COOTAMUNDRA, Friday.-An accident of a peculiar but painful nature befel John Boyton, son of Peter Boyton, of lllabo, on Wednesday evening. The young man was sewing a water…
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The City Coroner held an inquest at Charleston to-day on the body of a lad named Henry Broadway, aged 14 years, who was drowned in a waterhole at Charlestown on the previous afternoon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Peculiar Drowning Case
The district coroner, Mr. G. C. Martin, held an inquest at Charlestown yesterday into the circumstances surrounding the death of a boy named Henry Broadway, aged 14, whose dead…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fatality at Sea
A letter received yesterday from the captain of the barque Wenona gives particulars of a fatal accident on the voyage from Newcastle to Auckland. A seaman named Joseph Dominic…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Harbor Collision
The Marine Board sat on Monday, and after some preliminary business delivered their decision in the Princess-Cammeray collision, which occurred in Sydney Cove on December 27. The…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Burning Fatality at Woollahra
Madeline Duny, aged nine years, died at St. Vincent's Hospital yesterday afternoon from burning injuries. The child was playing on the doorstep of her parents' residence at Pickering-street, Woollahra, and she…
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Mr. Bennett Rider (Manager of Wash ingtonH. Soul and Co's dispensary) was the victim of a bad accident on Tuesday evening. As he was engaged with a…
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The city coroner held an inquiry at St. Vincent's Hospital to-day respecting the death of a child aged 8, named Madeline Duffy, who was fatally injured yesterday through her clothing catching fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Accident to the Ranelagh. Bundaberg
The marine superintendent inspected the Ranelagh to-day, and is making the necessary arrangements to pump the vessel and get her off the rooks. Under normal weather conditions it…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Alarming Accident to a Sister Ship to the Orlando
The Japaner mail steamer Tokyo Maru, which yesterday arrived from Japan, brings details of a accident to the belted cruiser Narc[?]s, at Shanghai. The vessel is [?] sister ship to the Orlando. The accident happened at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Sunbeam. Accident to the Machinery
Lord Brassey, who was obliged to put into Jervis Bay owing to the failure of the engines of the Sunbeam, arrived in Sydney shortly after 6 o'clock last evening by train…
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