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24 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
On sending up to the Infirmary to enquire as to the condition of the poor young fellows—Tost and Vaughan—who were injured at the recent disastrous fire, we regret to learn that hardly any change…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A proof that some at all events of our colonial youth inherit the endurance and determination of their race, wasaflorded by the circumstances attending an accident befalling a son of Mr. Lett, of Nuntin…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The subjoined version of the late melancholy cases of drowning is quoted by the Adelaide Observer of the 13th from the South Australian Southern Argus. After mentioning the start of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →We have been requested by the coroner, Mr. T. W. Pearse, to republish, for general information, the following directions as to the proper treatment of apparently drowned persons. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Intelligence was received at Portsmouth on December 16 of a very serions casualty which occurred about twenty miles off St. Catherine's, Isle of Wight, and which resulted in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A collision occurred on the Government Railway line at Sunbury yesterday, causing considerable annoyance and delay to a large party of excursionists, but fortunately inflicting no serious injury to life or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Friday evening a rumour prevailed that one of the Grammar Sohool Cadets, who left Sydney with that corps, in the steamer Alchymist, to campat Wiseman's Ferry, had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The body of the unfortunate James Alexander Paxtonâone of the Sydney Grammar School Cadet Corps, who was drowned at Wiseman's Ferryâwas brought to Windsor last evening. An inquest was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last Friday morning four men named respectively J. M'Carty, J. Bennet, P. Callinan, and Peter Nelson, left Newcastle in an open boat, and proceeded outside the heads on a fishing excursion. The party…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Only too true, alas, proved the report that circulated through the city at an early hour on Tuesday morning that Mr. George Lane, of Lake Macquarie, brother of Mr. John 8 Lane,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible calamity occurred at Rockaway, Morris county, on Sunday, which resulted in the burning of a family of four persons. A frame dwelling, occupied by a Mr. Giveneu and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A terrible accident occurred a few days ago in one of the weaving sheds at Messrs.J. Humphries and Son's carpet mill, Kidderminster. A weaver named Joseph Penny had been changing the pattern in his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On April 1, the annual Lurgan steeplechase toak place near the town Considerable gloom was cast over the day's proceedings by an accident of a very serious character. Suddenly those upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—Your Murrurundi correspondent was misinformed as to the residence of the gentleman who so kindly assisted Mrs. Parnell when she fractured her arm fourteen days ago. It was Mr. Hudson, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We regret exceedingly to hear that a shocking accident, causing the loss of one life, and severe injuries to other persons, occurred at Newcastle early on Sunday morning, in connection with the raising…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In its account of this disaster the Chronicle says:— No blame appears to attach to anyone. Captain Summerbell, being the owner of the vessel, was anxious to get it afloat, and was using means which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four men (on July 5) took refuge at Boston, from a shower in a budding on Governor's Island, when the lightning struck the building and killed three of them.—The ship "Tweedsdale," of Glasgow, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have received the following correspondence from Mr. J. P. Abbott, of Murrurundi:— "Murrurundi, 25th Sept, 1872. "SIR—Some time since a man named Michael…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A profound sensation was produced throughout Singleton shortly after five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, when the sad news spread like wildfire all over the town that Dr. Hartigan had been killed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The heaviest thunderstorm known for many years, and accompanied with wind,rain, and hail, passed over Rockhampton on Monday, Nov. 11. The storm was of a rotary character, the gusts coming at first from…
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