A Racing Accident. Jockey Badly Injured. MELBOURNE
Navarre fell in the Hurdle Race at the V.A.T.C. meeting today just after passing out from the stand, and Hayes, his rider, was badly injured. He is suffering from…
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The Coogee Bay Drowning. Identification of the Body
The City Coroner today held un inquiry at the South Sydney Morgue into the drowning of Joseph Roberts, whose body was yesterday found floating In the water at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fall From a Fence. a Wharf Fatality
At about 7 o'clock on Saturday morning, James Kane, a lighterman engaged at Dalton's Wharf, heard a man moaning on the further side of a fence which divides the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Man Drowned at Coogee. the Inquest
The City Coroner, Mr. J. O. Woore, held an inquiry into the death of Joseph Roberts, whose body was found floating in Coogee Hay on Friday. No evidence was forthcoming to show how deceased met with his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatality at Jubilee Dock. a Ship's Officer Killed
The City Coroner proceeded to Balmain this morning to investigate the circumstances connected with the death of John Osmondsen, second mate of the American schooner Golden…
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The adjourned inquest touching the dentil of James Austin M'Hugh, the young man who was killed by being run over in George street on Saturday, was resumed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision in Moji Harbor. P. and O. Boat and a Japanese Steamer
A naval Court of Inquiry was held on the 13th January in the British Consulate, Nagasaki, into the circumstances attending the collsion in Moji Harbor between the P. and O. steamer Brindisi…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shipping Disasters in the East. a Mail Boat and Warship in Collision
The China Navigation Company's steamer Changsha on Saturday brought news of several shipping disasters in Eastern waters. The Pacific Mail Company's steamer City of Poking, which…
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An-attendant at Sydney Hospital named James Haydon was severely burned about the head on Saturday. It was stated that Haydon was talking to a friend, who had a bottle of ammonia and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →That Fatal Street Accident
The inquest concerning the death of a youth named James Austin M'Hugh, which was commenced at the South Sydney Morgue on Saturday, was continued at the Coroner's Court, Queen's Square,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shooting Accident in Pitt-street
Two young men, named George Thompson and Peter Hale, were standing talking in Pitt-street, near the Lyceum Theatre, yesterday afternoon, and examining, it is stated, an old…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Accident at Sea. Island Cruise of the Chittoor. Death of the Captain
The Sydney-owned schooner Chittoor arrived from the Solomon Islands yesterday, and went alongside the ship Casabona to transfer her copra cargo. During the voyage, and when at the islands, a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →From the Islands. Arrival of the Barquentine Chittoor. Tragic Death of Captain Keating. Accidentally Shot with a Revolver
The surprise occasioned by the arrival yesterday morning of the barquentine Chitoor, from the Solomon Islands, in charge of the chief officer, Mr. Carmichael, deepened into excitement when…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Run Over by a Cart. Fatal Accident at the Railway Station
A young man named James Austin M'Hugh was walking from the railway station across George-street about 9 a.m. on Saturday, when he stepped in front of a cart laden with…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fatal Accident to a Boy
MUDGEE, Saturday. -- This morning Reginald Crossing, aged 12 years, a son of Mrs. Geo. Crossing, of Redbank, was found dead in a paddock adjoining his mother's residence. When last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Peculiar Shooting Accident a Pistol Goes Off Accidentally
The No. 1 police have in custody -- as a mere matter of precaution -- a young man named George Thompson, in connection with a somewhat peculiar shooting accident that happened…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatality at Balmain
The City Coroner (Mr. J. C. Woore) yesterday held an inquiry at the Balmain Cottage Hospital into the death of John Osmonsen, late second mate of the schooner Golden Shore, who fell over the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Inquests. a Railway Station Fatality
At the Coroners Court, Chancery-square, yesterday; the City Coroner concluded the adjourned inquest into the death of James Austin M'Hugh, who was run over by a vegetable cart on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Balmain Fatality. Death of a Ship's Officer
At the Balmain Cottage Hospital today, the City Coroner conducted a magisterial inquiry touching the death of John Osmonson, second officer of the American schooner…
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