was delivered on the 16th of Feby.; and another, on “Immortality – the Resurrection and Recognition in the Age to Come” was delivered, two days later.
A Lecture on Insurance Companies was delivered by Mr. Jabez Inwards, a well-known Temperance lecturer, at the Swan Hotel on the 11th of March.
A Second Astronomical Lecture was delivered was delivered by Mr. J. Banks, on the morning of March the 9th, at the Market Hall.
Accidents
A Broken Ankle was sustained by a man named Norman, by falling down 10 or 12 feet into the basement of the Queen’s Hotel, on the 14th of March. The hotel was then being built.
An Accident to the Misses Loft occurred on April 15 by the turning over of their carriage in descending the Castle Hill road, resulting in a cut forehead to one of the ladies.
Much Injury befell William Norman on the 24th April by a gust of wind blowing a ladder from under him and throwing him down while cleaning a window at Halloway Place.
Mr Harvey, a milkman, 71 years old, was kicked by a cow on the 23rd of April, by which his thigh was broken, and no hope given of his recovery.
Concussion of the brain and a distreated wrist was the result of a fall from a brewer’s dray by “Aux” Breeds, a beach labourer, on the 19th of Aug. Loss of Life.
On Sunday morning, Sept. 26th, Catherine Shoesmith, aged 15, and Frances Golding, about the same age, together with Mary Jane Christmas, a visitor from London, while bathing from one of Mr. Dunn’s machines, joined hands and walked into the water as far as they could, and getting near the rocks, where there was a strong current, they all three sank. Seeing this, Mr. Dunn galloped his horse into the sea and saved Golding and Christmas. Shoesmith, Dunn’s assistant, also rushed in with his horse, but could not find his daughter, who was consequently drowned.
An Injured Hip occurred to Henry Bumsted, an old fisherman, on the 6th of Oct. by being struck by a capstan bar while assisting to wind up a boat.
A Flyman named Fletcher and his carriage were injured through the running away of the horse, but a female passenger who was being driven to the railway station was unhurt.
A Miller’s Horse, while feeding in the “Mill Platt” on the West hill, got on the top of an old well, broke in, and by its struggle to free itself, was greatly injured. The said horse was the property of Horatio Nelson Williams.
Maritime Disaster
The Brothers Kent had their fishing smack “Fanny” run into on the night of April 19th, by a barque-rigged ship, which carried away her after-bulwarks, stanchions, rails and two shrouds; also tearing her mainsail into ribbons. The ship passed on without stopping to see the result of her bad look-out.
