Accident
Mr Alexander Lyle Pattison, formerly Engineer in Sydney, and latterly residing at Shoalhaven, was unfortunately drowned by the upsetting of a small boat, near Kiama, when on his…
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Accidents, Offences, &c
DRUNKENNESS —In his address to the Temperance Meeting the other day, the AttorneyGeneral stated that out of four hundred and thirty-seven Coroners' Inquests that were…
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On Thursday eight seamen, belonging to the London whaler Jan[?] E[?]za, were committed to take their trials for mutiny, in having refused to do their duty at Vavo[?] whereby the object of…
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BURGLARY.—The house of Mr. Harris, the watchmaker, was burglariously entered on Monday night, and a case that usually contains watches stolen, but as Mr. H. had taken the…
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R[?]BEERY.—On Monday night last, about dusk as a man named Warrington, a settler at Botany, was proceeding on the road from the Waterloo Mills, as he approached the bridge nearest…
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HORRIBLE DEATH —On Saturday an elderly female, named Mary Birnam who has considerable property at Prospect, visited Parramatta, where she got so much intoxicated that, upon…
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On Thursday afternoon, Inspector Ryan received information that the house of a man named Bassett, who resides near the toll-bar had been broken into; he went to the house and…
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QUICK WORK.—A man named G[?] better known as the" Hopping Frog," was discharged from the Court of Quarter Sessions, where he had been tried for stealing in a dwelling-house,…
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On Friday a constable was committed to take his trial for fraud. A man who had been sent t[?] Hyde Park Barracks to be identified, stated that on the way back to the Police Office he gave the…
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A man named Sullivan, whose wife had run away from him, went to the house where he suspected she was harboured for the purpose of enquiring after her. The unfortunate man was…
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BURGLARY.—On Sunday evening between six and seven o'clock, the house of Mr. Richardson, the pastry cook, was burglariously entered by a back up-stairs window, which was got at by the…
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INVERMEIN—It seems that the armed bushrangers who recently broke into the house of Dr. Thompson, at Invermein, were accomplished cutthroats. They had cars (not souls) attuned to…
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A letter was received in town on Saturday from a gentleman on the Murrumbidgee, which states that Mr. Weatherall, the agent of the contractor for conveying the mail from Sydney to…
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In 1822, when the western part of Ireland was afflicted with grievous famine, and when England stepped forward nobly, and poured forth her thousands to save those…
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A woman named Margaret Quin who has been repeatedly before the Police for drunkenness, was on Monday convicted of that offence, and evidence being given of three previous convictions, she was…
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BURGALARY.—The stores of Messrs Kenworthy and Lord were broken into on Wednesday night. The burglars climbed into the back yard, and standing upon a bale of wool reached an upper…
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Nine men have lately been brought down from Liverpool Plains, by the Mounted Police, charged with various offences. They are to be dealt with at Muse [?]brook. Runaway convicts…
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The offence of using disgusting language is one which above all others ought to be punished with the atmost severity as there is none which more tends to vitiate the minds of children who…
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On Wednesday morning, a young man named Board, employed as clerk to Mr. Fisher, the distiller, was discharged from his employment, upon which he took a quantity of poison, and went…
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STRANGE, IF TRUE.—We are told that, a few days ago, the blasting of a rock by some men employed at the Dam, near the new Parramatt[?]bridge, sent a stone nearly a quarter of a mile;…
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