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A TERRIBLE railway accident occurred yesterday afternoon near Peat's Ferry. An excursion train, with 250 passengers, was wrecked. Six persons, including…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yesterday, in the Assembly, Sir Henry Parkes, in referring to the railway accident, said it was intended to ask Parliament to acknowledge the singular…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →All the sufferers in the late railway disaster are doing well, and only five now remain in the hospital. The official enquiry was continued on Saturday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A TERRIBLE railway accident occurred yesterday afternoon at Peat's Ferry. An excursion train with 250 passengers on board was wrecked, and six persons, including T. Wilson, engine-driver,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT is with extreme regret that we have to record a sad and fatal accident which happened to Mr. W. Knap ton, Mayor of Inverell, on Tuesday night last. It appeal's that the evening of the picnic was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The departmental enquiry into the late railway accident at Peat's Ferry is concluded. The report sent in to the Commissioner is not likely to be made public…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A COLLISION occurred, yesterday, off Portland, between the British war ships Ajax and Devastation. The latter was badly damaged and obliged to put into dock for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A workman while working on the scaffold of a building in Clarence-street fell into the Street below, and was killed almost immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is expected that a printed report of the evidence taken at the departmental enquiry into the railway accident at Peat's Ferry will be published in about a week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It has been finally decided that the officials censured, connected with the late railway accident, should be dismissed from the railway service…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thomas Baker, a contractor, residing at Paddington, had his left hand cut off while attempting to get into a moving tram, in Bathurst-street, on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A man named Thomas Rushton was taken to the Sydney Hospital, on Saturday night, in an unconscious condition, suffering from concussion, and died early…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further advices respecting the terrible railway accident in America state that the accident oceured to the midnight train of sixteen carriages and two engines. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ATERRIBLE railway disaster occurred to-day. Owing to the burning of the bridge over the River Illinois a train eastward bound for Niagara was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alderman John Ross, one of the oldest residents of Wilcannia was accidentally drowned in the riper last night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE injury done by cats to young fruit trees, especially those near the dwelling, is, we are satisfied, overlooked by most farmers. All are familar with the way…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The railway department is endeavouring to arrive at some means of limiting the liability for compensation for accidents. The sum of £200 has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SERIOUS railway accident happened on Friday morning, a few minutes after five. The mixed goods and passenger train was proceeding from Sydney to Wagga,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT Higgins Lake, Roscommon country, Detroit, Mrs. Charles H. Petit and her little daughter, aged three years, were boating, when the little one, while capering about, fell into the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A serious boat accident happened at Botany Bay on Saturday last, by which four men named, respectively, Jno. White, head Public School teacher at Botany, F…
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