Railway Fatality. Lithgow
An inquest was held to-day touching the death of Wm. George Hampton. The Cononer, Mr. Beard, found that death was caused by injuries accidentally received on a railway,…
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Burning Fatality. Brisbane
An 11-year-old daughter of Mr. Thos. Brown, Sandy Creek, in the Warwick district, was lifting a kettie from a fire, when her clothing ignited. The girl was so seriously burned that…
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James cook, 40, a lorry-driver, who lives in irving-street, chippendale, was struck on the back by some cases of galvanised iron, this morning, while about to load them on his…
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WALLSEND, Wednesday.--'During the running of the Borough Handicap at Wallsend to-day, E. M'Kenzic, the jockey who rode Maxwell, was thrown when opposite the entrance gates. and had his right leg broken below the…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A horse this evening came galloping furiously across Princess Bridge with a saddle on his back, but no bridle. Shying at some men who rushed out…
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Alderman M. O'Riordan, the popular exMayor of Alexandria, while trying a young horse in a sulky, was thrown to the ground at the corner of Gardiners'—road and…
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Mr. Sheehy, one of the miners injured in the blasting accident at the Great Southern mine, Bendigo, died yesterday…
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Yesterday morning Mr. James Murphy, farmer, met with a painful accident. While removing a bag of chaff from a stack a number of the bags fell on him, rendering him…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Peculiar Accident. Tenterfield
A young man named Lawrence Stack met with a very painful accident to-day. Whilst driving a cow out of a yard she knocked a rail in his face, fracturing the cheekbone. He…
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A serious accident happenod yesterday afternoon to Thomas Wicks, son of Mr. F. Wicks, of Orange, at the latter's slaughter-yard. The boy was in a tree gathering bushes when the…
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Mr. Thomas Frodsham, Government surveyor, was badly knocked about to-day through his horses bolting in the Hamilton district. He was thrown out of the buggy, and had his…
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The man who fell from the tram in Cook's River-rend, St. Peters, on Tuesday evening, had not regained consciousness at a late hour last night nor had the been identified. The Newtown…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Law. Wednesday, February 21. the State Courts. Banco. (Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice G. B. Simpson, and Mr. Justice Pring.) a Her Dare Colliery Accident. M'laughlin V. the Caledonian Coal Company
Mr. Gordon, K.C., and Mr. Ferguson (instructed by Messrs. Perkins and Fesbery) appeared to move, on behalf of the Caledonian Coal Company. Limited, for a rule absolute for a now…
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An elderly man named Barney Byrnes, or Smith, a carter, residing at Phelp-street, Waterloo, was picked up yesterday in M'Carthy-lane. Woolloomooloo, by Constable…
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James Cook, a lorry driver, 40 years of age, and residing at 20 Irving-street, Chippendale, met with a serious accident at Briscoe and Co.'s works. Wattle-street, Pyrmont, yesterday…
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A lorry-driver named James Cook, 40 years of age, and residing at Irvine-street, Chippendale, was conveyed by the Civil Ambulance yesterday to the Sydney Hospital, where…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The ship Spoke, of Liverpool, in ballast, bound from Mollendo via Sydney Heads to Melbourne, ran on the rocks near Nobbys, Phillip Island, at 1.30 p.m. to-day,…
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The following telegram was received to-night:—"Cowes reports a large ship ashore at Nobbys. The crew is on shore in distress. A party is leaving with refreshments for the…
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BATHORST Friday.— [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Morayshire's Accident. Wellington (N.z.)
A private cable message states that the breakdown of the Morayshire in the Straits of Magellan is due to a cracked tail shaft, not a broken one…
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