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93 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 5
On Saturday night, at the Dapto Hotel Mr. Joseph Coombes, a well-known resident of Wollongong for many years, was stabbed in three places by a man named…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LAST Tuesday's "Mercury" reports as follows.— On Saturday night, at the Dapto Hotel, Mr. Joseph Coombes, a Well known…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →While some men were busy removing an old boiler at Corrimal, one of their number named Harry Harrigan had his foot terribly crushed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Yesterday afternoon a miner named James Weir, residing at Thirroul, was killed in the Old Bulli mine by a fall of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. James Reed struck his leg against a cake of ice it such a manner as to britise it severely. It became very much swollen and pained him so badly that he could not'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Sunday last a lad named David Smith, son of Mr. John Smith, of Collins street, while playing about the rear of the Oddfellows' Hall, Kiama, met with a hasty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A miner named Peter Young suffered a severe accident in the South Clifton colliery on Monday by a fall of stone. His back was injured and both his thighs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday a terrible accident happened at Mount Kembla Colliery, whereby a surface hand named James Benjamin aged about 20 years meth[?]s death. It happens…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest, touching the death of James Benjamin,a young man 18 years of age who met with terrible injuries at the Kembla mine on Thursday while…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Saturday night last, or rather on Sunday morning (about 1 a.m.) a man named Charlesworth met with serious injuries through falling from a third-storey…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday night a man named Charleswo[?]h met with serious injuries through falling from a third-storey bedroom window of the Grand Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The body of Francis Franzen, 50, lately employed on the schooner Countess of Errol, a well-known trader to Wollongong, was found floating near the Jubilee Dock,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SAD beating fatality took plecs off the Wollongong port last Saturday afternoon. Constable J. W. M'Andrew (who was it one time stationed in Kiama, and is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A party of local residents consisting of Police Constable M'Andrews, A.G. Bodinieade (baker), A. Wearn (son of Mr. T. Wearn, hairdresser, Crown-street)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SAD boating fatality look place off Wollongong on Saturday, Constable J. W. M'Andrew (late of Kiama), with his little boy, Clarence, shout 8 years of age,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Captain G.W. Childs, master of the tug Waning, writes asking us to remove what he considers may create a wrong impression in the minds of the public in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday afternoon there was considerable consternation in Wollongong, consequent on a report that a boat with four townspeople in it had…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Yesterday morning while the steamer Werfa was proceeding into Belmore Basin for a cargo of coal she had the misfortune to foul one of the buoys making the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE bias log operations in the vicinity of the Blowhole Point yesterday, in connection with the laying of water pipes, resulted in damage to the gas-pipe leading…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The passion of boys for pea-rifles, or in fact mostly anything of an explosive nature, is proverbial, and needed not the illustration afforded by Master Arthur…
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