Happy Accidents
IT is pleasant to read of the manner in which shrewd minds gave turned an accidental observation to practical advantage. Galileo, being one day in the cathedral…
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The Drowned
The chief officer, Mr. Lawson, who is saved, says that the following were drowned:—Mr. and Mrs. Wakefield and five children, Mrs. H. O. Whitworth, Mr. Ferguson, G. Payne, Mrs. Brodie,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Steamer Dandenong in Danger of Foundering. Passengers in Imminent Peril, and a Number of Them Drowned. Newcastle, Wednesday, 10.30 a.m
The Dandenong steamer is lost off Jervis Hay. Twenty-eight of her passengers and crew have just been brought into this pint by a barque. The following is the list of passengers for Sydney, as…
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The 'Standard' correspondent at Madrid writes as follows:—On June 26 the news began to spread in Madrid of a fearful railway accident in Catalonia. As usual, the company on whose line this accident…
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The following is the copy of a letter-written by Captain Beaufort, R. N. (afterwards Admiral Beaufort), to a medical freind:— "My Dear Sir,—The following circumstances…
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The Standard correspondent at Madrid writes as follows:—"On June 26 the news began to spread in Madrid of a fearful railway accident in Catalonia. As usual, the…
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ON Tuesday the 19th ultimo, the only child of Mrs. Mack, (widow), who keeps a store in Shellharbour, for her relative Mr. Davies of Albion Park, a fine little boy,…
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A fatal collision took place on the night of August 7th, on the Somerset and Dorset railway at Radstock, a station about ten miles from Bath. The line, which is leased…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Drowning of the Messrs. Wilson, of Gerringong
The Gerringong correspondent of the 'Kiama Independent' says:— One of the most sad and appalling events that has occurred here since this district has been…
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