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44 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 3
The New Year was ushered in in Sydney with the usual quantum of human sacrifice amid the usual merry-making. Eight joyous friends, four girls and four youths, of whom two were brothers, and two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On New Year's Day; in Sydney harbour, four men (one of whom was William Hastings Senior, a licensed surveyor, and late second in command of the Geographical Society's Expedition to New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A FARMER named Bott was killed on Saturday, near Coloa, by falling from a haystack on to a pitchfork handle, which entered his body…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A sad drowning accident took place at Balmain during the past week. The wife, of Mr. Dixon, shipbuilder, of Balmain, Sydney, was drowned while bathing the other morning. Adjoining their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Sunday evening, the coach, on its return trip from Bundarra, capsized near the old sheep-station, about five miles from Uralla. At the time there were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A FATAL accident befell Lord Guilford, Master of the Cattistock Hounds, while hunting in the Vale of Buckland. near…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN accident of a most deplorable nature occurred on Saturday last at Leech's Gully, about four miles from Tenterfield, when one of the oldest residents of the district, Mr. John Hutton'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A FATAL occured recently at Brisbane (says the Courier), at the foundry of Messrs. Smellie and Co. It appears that shortly before 2 o'clock two men were removing large and weighty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A VERY melancholy occurrence has within the last few days taken place at Tent Hill (says the Vegetable Creek Times), Sir. and Mrs. Peter Crane and family all becoming most alanniugly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT mid-day on Tuesday, a young man named Edward Paterson was working in No. 2 Pit of the A. A. Co.'s mine at Borehole, near Newcastle, when a large block of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A FATAL accident occurred recently at a vineyard on the Great Western line, Victoria, near Stawell. Three men, named Trouriek, Cobie, and Thompson, were engaged in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A LOT of trucks were conveying earth across a bridge, for duplicating the [?] near Good[?] when they [?]ded with a goods train. O[?] truck was throw[?] over…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWS has just been received that the steamer Ly-ee-Moon, belonging to the Australian Steam Co., from Melbourne to this port, is a total wreck off Green Cape. She struck on a reef last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE schooner Falcon, captain Thos. Wilson, outward bound to Newcastle in ballast, had made a fair start on her journey down the harbour last night, and when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fireman named Hassen was killed on Board the steamer Commandore yesterday. Whilst cleaning the machinery a portion strock him, causing internal injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At noon to-day, while firing a salute on board the war ship Opal, a gun which had been successfully fired was being reloaded, when it exploded, killing James Harvey,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A boy named G, Lindsey fell into a vat of boiling glue at Botany last Saturday and was so severely [?]alded that there is little hope of his recovery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THERE is great excitement ever the railway accident. Rogers, the stoker, has since died. In his dying depositions he blamed the driver for the accident by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A collision occurred at the Newtown railway station early on Sunday morning. A goods train and another train with a number of empty trucks collided. 15…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Man named L. Mackinnon was killed near Wollongong. yesterday, through a tree fulling on him…
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