Boy Drowned. Queenstown, (Tas.)
A lad named Leo Luckhurst (15) was drowned this afternoon in the Mt. Lyell Company's now dam, about a mile from the reduction works. Deceased with other boys had been swimming'…
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Missing Yachts Crew. Were They Drowned?
LAUNCESTON. Sunday.--Although, active search has been made for the missing occupants of the yacht Ayesha, which was washed ashore near Low Leads on Friday afternoon,…
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This morning, at Welston, Colln Martin, a member of No. 1 North Brisbane patrol of Boy Scouts, was accidentally drowned. The patrol, under the command of Assistant Scoutmaster…
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About 11 o'clock on Friday morning the Zina, a 16-footer, capsized near Green Island, Moreton Bay (Q-) between Wellington Point and Cleveland. Four youths, William Quaill,…
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A fire occurred in the Methodist parspnage, occupied by the Rev. T. F. Potts. When discovered the fire had burnt the studding between the plastor walls of two rooms and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boating Disaster. Sailer Zena Capsizes. One of the Crew Drowned. Remainder 18 Hours in the Water
BRISBANE, Sunday.--The sailing boat Zena, with a crew of four, capsized of Peel Island at 10 o'clock on Friday morning. The upturned craft, with the crew clinging to it, drifted…
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WELLINGTON [?] WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sunday.--When the steamer Anglo-Saxon, bound from Wellington to London, was four hours out from port, a terrible accident occurred in the engine-room, causing…
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LISMORE, Sunday.--A little girl, aged 3½, daughter of Robert Roney, of South Lismore, was accidentally shot by her brother, aged 5½, on Saturday. The mother was preparing the…
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Frank Smith, a laborer, was arrested in Pitt-street on Friday, and locked up. On Saturday morning he suddenly collapsed in a cell at the Central Police Station. The Civil Ambulance…
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The City Coroner held a second inquest on the body of an unknown man, which was found floating in Hozelle Bay on December 26. The evidence showed that the man was about 40 years of age, 5ft 5½in high, of…
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Cable advice received from London last evening states that during a dense fog in St. George's Channel on Sunday the Ellerman steamer Arcadian, 2855…
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Yesterday the City Coroner, Mr. Stephen Murphy, held an inquest touching the death of John Morsow Cowell, 54, a clerk, whose body was found floating in Berry's Bay on December 24 last. Evidence was given…
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LONDON, Monday.--During a dense fog off Tuskar Rock--an islet off the s.e. coast of Co. Wexford, Ireland--yesterday, the steamer Arcadian, bound from London to…
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Neil Peterson, 50, a wharflabourer, living in Allan-street, Pyrmont, was working on Dalgety's wharf last night, when a bag of wheat fell on to him, injuring his back and chest…
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MOREE, Monday.--The body of a man, afterwards identified as Thomas Hamilton, about 25 years old, was found floating in a waterhole in the Mehl River, off Frome-street, this morning…
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An Inquiry was held at the City Coroner's Court into the death of John. Morson Cowell, whose body was found in the water at Berry's Bay on December 24. Dr. Sheldon stated that…
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The dead body of a young man, since identified as Thomas Hamilton, of Delungra, 25, was discovered this morning in a waterhole near a tracker's hut adjacent to the police station…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Whakatane-circe Collision. the Salvage Claim
News by the mail states that in the Admiralty Division, Sir John Bingham, assisted, [?] Trinity masters, had before him the case of the owners of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Terrible Railway Collision. Express and Goods Train. London, Jan. 2
Mr. Spencer Trask, a New York banker, was killed in a railway collision at Croton, near New York. Mr. Trask was sleeping in his privare…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An Eventful Picnic. Whole Family Poisoned. Boy, Drowned. Melbourne
At the two Druids' picnic to-day at Pinky Bend, two miles below Mildura, on the river bank, a chapter of accidents occurred. The whole family of Mr. H. F. Jones—except the two…
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