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37 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 2
The melancholy occurrence at P. N. Russell and Co's iron foundry, on Tuesday last, resulting in the death of a man named Peter Harkness formed the subject of an investigation before the city coroner…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last, as a man named Cambridge was assisting to load one of the trucks on the [?]t, a heavy stone slipped, and before he could get clear, fell upon one of his legs, inflicting a very severe…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday afternoon, as Councillor Wilson, of Shellharbor, was fixing some guttering to his house, for which purpose he was standing upon some palings, and while in the act of raising himself in order to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday last, 1st instant, George Alfred Plumb, son of Mr. T. W. Plumb, was proceeding, in company with his father, in a spring cart, to Pan[?] is connexion with his business as a baker; on passing a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Northam, Captain Potts, arrived at King George's Sound, at 8 o'clock p.m., on the 7th instant, having left Galle on the 21st of February…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have received from a correspondent the particulars attendant upon the death by burning of the child of Mr. Williams, of Fairfield, Oranmeir. It appear that on the morning of Thursday the 6th…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →While all cheerful English households have been adding to their cheerfulness by heaping up the fires that made a pleasant contrast to the cold outside, a terrible tragedy has occurred in one of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While all cheerful English households have been adding to their cheerfulness by heaping up the fires that make a pleasant contrast to the cold outside, a terrible tragedy has occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Wednesday evening last several youths went to bathe at a place situated a little to the southward of the projecting point of land known as the Point, when one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A collision in which the Chinese residents of Jambaicumbene were worsted, took place there on Saturday last. A mob of Chinese removed their pegs and attempted an encroachment, which was resisted by an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another act in this sad tragedy has been accomplished. During last night the men employed in clearing the shaft made great progress in restoring the ventilation, and early this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We regret to state that as Mr. Thomas Durdon was returning home from Wollongong, on Friday evening last, he was thrown from his horse when near the residence of Captain Glyme, and was so…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The bodies of the unfortunate miners who died of suffocation in Hartley pit have been brought to the surface and buried. After much labor, attended with the greatest danger, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A very sad accident happened lately in the Amherst-road, Hackney, within fifty yards of the railway station. On the south side of the road…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A frightful collision has occurred on the Suburban Railway, The Brighton express train into town [?] into the Bawthorne out-train at 7.30 a.m. The engines met butt to butt, the Hawthorne carriages…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Herald's Melbourne correspondence, under date of May 8th, writes:—Scarcely have the now proprietary of the Suburban Railway Company commenced their management of that line…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Considerable excitement prevailed in the city yesterday, owing to a most serious collision which took place at an early hour of the morning on the Melbourne (late Suburban) Line of Railway. Hitherto…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An accident happened here on Thursday night last, resulting in the death of William Nean, It appears that Nean on that day took his dray to bring some things from the river, and that it was dark…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An accident of a somewhat serious nature occurred on Friday evening last to the Rav. T. C. Ewing, who, while riding along the Dapto road, was thrown from his horse and in his fall received a severe cat on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday last, as Mr. Fry was driving home from Jamberoo with his eldest daughter, shortly after leaving the main road, one of the wheels of the…
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