Captain Huish on Railway Accidents
The following (says the Times) is taken from a paper read before the institution of Civil Engineers:— "Contrasting the mere numbers transported…
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17 stories in Sydney's papers
Merton -- Fatal Accident
It is my painful duty to record a melancholy accident, which happened about a mile and a-half from this township. It appears that Mr. John Gaven, jun., left his home on Sunday, the 2nd instant, with his horse and cart, for the purpose of going to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Calamitous and Fatal Boat Accident. (From the New Zealander, May 18.)
It is our painful duty to record one of the most distressing accidents that have occurred in this district, by which one valuable life is known to have been lost, and four others—though the fact…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Railway Accidents. (From the Time's, March 3.)
The country has lost something by the retirement of the Delby Government. Had it not been for the adverse sentenced on Mr. Disraeli's budget, her Majesty's…
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It is our painful duty to record one of the most distressing accidents that have occurred in this district, by which one valuable life is known to have been lost, and four others—though the fact has…
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SIR—A letter appeared in your paper of the 26th instant, signed "Justice," in reference to the paragraph headed us above, which (although there is not the alightest contradiction of my…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dreadful Mail Accident, (From a Correspondent.)
On Sunday afternoon, the 2[?]th instant, the mail-cart, which runs between Penrith and Hart. ley, met with a fearful accident, attended with loss of life. On coming down Mount Victoria,…
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THERE is no subject connected with the interests of this colony that requires such immediate attention on the part of the Government as the present state of its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Manufacture of Accidents. (From the Leader.)
THE "Great Northern" has distinguished itself. A railway company who nearly kill a Lord mayor, a bishop, baronet, and a peer, must be counted great in the accident…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Illustrated Sydney News. Advance Australi Saturday, December 3, 1853. the Logtc of Accident
In the Sydney Morning Herald ai Thursday, we find a report oi one of those fatal occurrences hy which we are now and ag/ain startled; and which seem permitted, both to demonstrate that the effects of vice are not the less frightful because they may be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coach Accidents.—public Meeting at Bathurst. (From the Bathurst Free Press.)
In accordance with the advertisement in last Saturday's free Pr[?] public meeting of the inhabitants of Bathurst took place in the Court House on Tuesday evening last, to discuss the…
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The following letter has been handed to us for publication:— H.M.S. Calliope, Sydney, December 10th, 1853…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. the Late Coach Accident. (To the Editors of the Freeman's Journal.)
GENTLEMEN,—You will no doubt have observed by the Bathurst Free Press, that a meeting was convened here relative to the late melancholy coach accident, by which the life of a fellow…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Preservation of Life From Drowning. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—A young child belonging to the neigh bourhood fell into the water yesterday at the Commercial Wharf, and must have been drowned but for the heroic intrepidity of a…
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BY Captain Gennys' permission we lay before our readers the official report of the late disastrous boat aocident off Garden Island. Mr. Harvey's body and that of Master Veysey were…
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It is with great regret that we have to record another boat accident, attended with loss of life. The cutter belonging to H.M. steamer Torch was caught by a puff of wind whilst under canvas and abreast of Garden Island on Saturday night last. Mr…
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