General News. Serious Crane Accident in Melbourne
On Saturday shortly before noon an alarming accident occurred in Melbourne. At a large excavation at the corner of Collins and Elizabeth streets for the basement of a…
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On Saturday shortly before noon an alarming accident occurred in Melbourne. At a large excavation at the corner of Collins and Elizabeth streets for the basement of a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An oil refinery at Titusville, Pennsylvania, was set fire to by lightning. The town was destroyed, and 150 persons were either burned or drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An accident happened yesterday afternoon to a passenger train between Marangaroo and Bowenfels ; a horsebox was derailed, and the line torn…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Very serious alarm is felt as to the safety of David Todd, who is supposed to have been washed away when crossing the river with a horse and cart near Long Flat station, about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A sad accident occurred near Bombala on Thursday last, to Lord Ancram, who was out with a shooting party. It appears that the unfortunate gentleman was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The search for the body of the unfortunate man, who was drowned in attempting to cross the river at a crossing at Long Flat Station, has been successful, the body being found…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A disastrous railway collision has taken place at Harrisburg, in Pennsylvania. Ten passengers were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Haines, of the firm of Hibbard and Haines; Port Macquarie, met with a fatal accident at Telegraph Point on Wednesday last. He was helping to roll some logs from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two processions of the clerical and liberal parties walking through the streets of Rome came into collision. The clerical party took refuge in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two passenger engines collided at Redfern last night, the damage was only nominal, the brakes being quickly applied…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A railway collision has occurred at Epping, England, fifty persons were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gruff old Thundow's pointed taunt of the equivocal ancestry of the Duke of Grafton has had many modern illustrations, but testimony to the composite character of the House of Peers could sesrcely…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Whilst Mr. William Davis was playing in the football match between the Combined Juniors and Kempsey Club, on Saturday, at West Kempsey,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A somewhat extraordinary accident happened to Mr. Gladstone on Thurday. While the Prime Minister was walking…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In spite of the stormy weather this afternoon the strike meeting on the reserve was largely attended, and speeches of a somewhat revolutionary…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sunday a boat containing a number of young men and women was capsized in Darling Harbor. All the occupants were saved by a passing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. John Dillon has been thrown from a car and seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Sunday last as Mr. R. Allen and Mr. Benauer were driving out in Mr. Peter Weiri's sulky, one of the wheels collapsed, the occupants…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Thursday last, the 29th ult., Miss Ramsay, teacher at Moparabah Creek, while bathing with Miss McIvor, got out of her depth in a deep hole, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Zoological Gardens yesterday some boys were playing with a large wooden drum used by the performing elephant, when it was sent rolling…
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