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37 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 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 cart came in cont[?]ct with a stump, from which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On last Friday afternoon a fine little lad, about twelve years of age, the son of Mrs. Wilmott, of Kiama, and in the service of Mr. Kendall, J.P., was killed by the falling of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday, the 24th (says the Tenterfield Chronicle) a little girl named Elizabeth Haggerty, five years of age, was accidently drowned in the Tenterfield Creek. Her mother died about twelve months ago…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The inquest having reference to the death of Mr. James Lynch, aged twenty-three years, was resumed and concluded before the City Coroner at the Observer Tavern, George-street North…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On saturday morning last, shortly after the hands at the breakwater had commenced work, a man named John Roberts met with an accident, which, happily, did not result in serious consequences. It appears that Roberts was at work a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Braidwood Observer says:—A singular and serious accident, we regret to say happened on Thursday morning to Mr. James Thorman, of the firm of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Newcastle correspondent of the Maitland Mercury reports that on Wednesday morning last, a man whose name, strange to say nobody can give us, suffered a most serious accident at the now pit,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest touching the death of Henry Chamberlain, whose body was found in the River Clarence, was held on Tuesday last, before Mr. A. Lardner, coroner, and jury of twelve, It appeared from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Hunter, steamer, Captain Sullivan, left Merimbula at 5 a.m. on the 1st instant, for Sydney, and when off the Three Sisters, about twenty-four miles south of the South Head light, was ran into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquiry into the causes of the recent collision between the above steamers, was commenced on Thursday, the 4th instant, by the Steam Navigation Board, and concluded on Tuesday. Mr. E. O. Moriarty, chairman;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An inquiry into the circumstances attending upon the decease of two Chinamen who were suddenly smothered in a gold claim at the Little River goldfield by the falling in of an embankment of earth on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One of the most disastrous railway accidents that have ever occurred in Scotland took place on the 13th of October near Winchburg, on the Edinburghand Glasgow Railway. The accident…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Last week, information reached the township that an accident had occurred four miles up the river, opposite the homestead of Mr. Lanndnle, by which two men had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday last poor man, named Williams, a Welshman, employed on the works at the breakwater, was suffocated by a bank of earth falling on him. The particulars, as they weregiven…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday, the 16th instant, a man named John Williams, was killed by the falling in of a bank of clay. at which he was working in company with another man, the particulars of which are given in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday, one of the cranes at the Harbor works gave way, and as one of the drill men was in in the act of climbing the rocks to escape the falling crane, struch him and broke his leg. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The inquest was continued upon the four men who were killed in the pit-shaft at the new Priestfield Colliery, at Portobello, near Wolverhampton. The first witness called was Thomas Gough the butty of…
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