Singular Railway Accident
A singular railway accident occurred at Korumburra last evening. A special passenger train leaves for Outtrim every fortnight in connection with pay at the mines. The…
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Marine Accidents and Disasters During December
Athenic. — While the Athenic, drawing 3[?] feet, was leaving Wellington harbour on the 12th inst. for London, she took ground on a bank of silt. She…
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A shocking railway accident occurred on the South Coast line, near Thirroul station, about 7 o'clock this morning. The 6.30 train from Wollongong to Sydney was travelling…
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WAGGA, Saturday.--A serious shooting accident befel Alfred Dennis at Currawarna, 20 miles from here, on New Year's Day. He went to shoot crows will a pea rifle, and whilst walking along…
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GUNNEDAH, Monday.--The body of an unknown man was found in the Namol River, near Burrell Paddock, caught in the snags, this morning. The man was apparently a swagsman…
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The tag Boko brought to Brisbane to-night the dead body of Henry Campbell, who was a passenger by the Australian, bound from Sydney to Hongkong. At 6 last night, during rough weather, the Australian…
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The City Coroner (Mr. J. C. Woore) held an in[?]est yesterday respecting the death of a widow [?]med Bridget Merchant, 65, lately residing at [?] Gloucesler-street, who died in Sydney…
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Mr. F. King, manager of Kelly's vineyard, Maclaren Vale, was drowned while fishing with a net near Port Willunga on Saturday. There was a heavy swell on at the time, and his brother-in-law,…
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GUNNEDAH, Monday.--J. Daniels, 16 years of age, while bathing on Sunday in a dam at Derwent Park station, near Mullaley, was drowned…
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Two young men, Herbert Lavers, aged 19, clerk in the E.S. and A. Bank, North Melbourne, and Herbert Sisson, aged 10, of Brunswick, members of a party of six encamped in the scrub near…
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A special train which leaves Korumburra for Outtrim every alternate Saturday night, was partly derailed on Saturday evening as the result of a carriage door being left open when the train…
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A slight explosion of gunpowder took place at Christie's gunpowder and rackarock works, Nelson- street, Balmain, this morning, as the result of which a workman named…
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A sad drowning accident happened at Frankston this aftenoon involving the death of Herbert Laver, aged 18, and Herbert Sissons, aged 19. The deceased lads with four others, viz., Frederick Leslie…
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PERTH, Sunday.--After the last race on Saturday Turner, the rider of Durham, lodged n complaint against A. Cox, rider of Gossare. for foul riding. The inquiry was opened and adjourned. Turner's foot was badly bruised,…
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The Deputy-City Coroner (Dr. R. H. Todd) hold an inquiry at Kogarah yesterday into the death of William Robert Kemp, aged 38, lately residing with his wife and seven children in…
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While out shooting on Monday at Coolac, near Gundagai, a young man named James Heydon, 17, a labourer, was accidentally wounded in the foot. He was brought to Sydney to-day by this…
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While working on an American schooner, lying at the Sugar Company's wharf, yesterday, a man named Michael Mulroney, 46, living at Regent-street, was severely injured through a quantity of timber falling…
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Michael Mulroney, 46, laborer, living in Regent-street, City, was working on a vessel last evening, when a stack of timber fell on him, fracturing his left thigh, dislocating his ankle,…
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HAY, Tuesday.--William Neil Jackson, aged seven years, oon of Mr. A. M. Jackson, bookkeeper at Benerembab, was drowned in the Murrumbidgee River on Saturday. Deceased and…
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