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46 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 3
SCARCELY has the excitement attendant on the late fatal accident in the city, occasioned by the falling of a house subsided, than another has occurred almost as startling as the former…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A coroner's inquest was held before J. S. Purker, Esq, yesterday, at the King's Head Inn, George-street North, touching the death of Peter Lungley, aged 33 yours, who was drowned on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THERE was an appalling tragedy at the Surrey Gardens on Sunday night, October 19th. The friends of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon had taken the large concerthall for four Sunday evenings; and the first service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE frequent recurrence, of late, of deaths by drowning, after very brief periods of immersion, seems to call for the publication of some simple and explicit instructions on the treatment of persons seemingly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE royal mail steamship America left this port for Boston, United States, on the 6th December, with fifty-four passengers, a large mail, and a full cargo of dry goods. It was then blowing half-a-gale from the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR—When I gave you notice not to send me the Empire any longer, and expressed my reason for doing so, I did not imagine your sense of honour was at such a low obb as to allow you to take the cowardly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After the fine passages made by all the steamers which up to the present time have reached Sydney, forming a portion of the European and Australian Royal Mail Steam Company's fleet, it is much to be regretted that we have at so early a period to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NUMEROUS cases of persons being innocently convicted having recently come before the public, through the columns of the Times, Mr. John Brady, of Warwick Terrace, Belgravia, has sent to that journal the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—A paragraph, headed as above, appears in [?] issue of this morning. It is there stated that [?] Coroner's jury, in returning their verdict of [?] dental drowning," take upon themselves to "add[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HUDDERSFIELD.—Mr. Cobden having addressed an audience of 2000 persons in the theatre, in exposition of his political views, was interrupted by a tremendous crash. The side…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An inquest was held on the 4th instant, at the Crispin Arms, Clarence-strect, touching the death of an aged man, named Patrick O'Brien, who was so seriously injured on Thursday last, by being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—In your issue of Saturday, the 30th ultimo, is a letter from Mr. Crook, owner of the Balmain steam-boat Peri, which, in consequence of the supplement having been mislaid, has only just come under my…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE extract the subjoined harrowing account from the Toronto Globe, March 12:— We shall not attempt to describe the deep sensation which was excited last night amoung all classes, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have papers to the 21st of March, for which we are indebted to the politeness of a gentleman in town. The great and absorbing topic of interest is the lamentable loss of life that had taken place on the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A coroner's inquest was held at the Balmain Hotel, Balmain, yesterday, touching the death of a man named George Jenkins, then and there lying dead. Deceased had been employed at the Steam Saw…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Geelong and Williamstown Railway was opened tshs morning in the presence of Sir Henry Barkly, and a large number of local and colonial celebrities. The inaugural procession…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, a carter was driving a dray, heavily laden with sugar, along Lower George-street, from the direction of the Queen's Wharf, when, seeing another dray from an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Police Office, on Wednesday, an inquest was held on view of the remains of a bullock-driver, named Robert Boodle, formerly in the employ of Mr. Joseph King of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE have a very painful duty to perform this morning in recording the death of the Rev. Charles Marsden Betts, whick took place yesterday afternoon, under circumstances of a truly melancholy nature. The…
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