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32 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2
SIR,—In your report of the inquest held on the body of John Steel, on Thursday last, I find it stated that the stone which was being hoisted at the time the sad accident occurred, weighed two tons. Now its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE spokesman of the French Senate was right in saying that the last few months have seen a wonderful succession of events. If the French Empire is not exactly peace, neither apparently…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DURING the half-year ended June 30th, 1859, nine persons were killed and eleven were injured on all the railroads of the United Kingdom open for traffic, by accidents, the causes of which were beyond their own…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have just received intelligence by the Clarence, arrived this morning, that a collision took place betweeu the Paterson and Williams the Williams sank. Some firemen very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE were enabled to announce in our Saturday's issue, the unfortunate collision of the steamers Paterson and Williams; we have since learned further particulars of the occurrence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Clarence (s.) arrived at the A. S. N. Company's Wharf, from Newcastle, on Saturday morning at five o'clock, bringing intelligence of the collision of the Paterson and Williams, steamers, on Priday morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday, says the Maitland Mercury of Saturday, considerable alarm was excited in Maitland by the report that a serious collision had taken place in the river near Raymond Terrace, between the steamers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—At the Steam Navigation, and Pilot Boards appear to make no suggestion or provition for the prevention of the fatal b[?]t accidence which so frequently occur in this port, [?] beg to remind them that this subject is not only within their supporvision, but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Seeing in your paper of this morning a letter signed "Looker on," who suggests that all watermen's, amateurs', and boats for hire be compelled to carry two life buoys, I can only agree with him in the last named, fishing boats, perhaps,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MOST extraordinary and fetal accident by lightning took place on Wednesday last, at half-past 12 o'clock, at the Weatherboard Inn, on the Blue Mountains, about twenty-five miles on the Buthurst side a penrith. It…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Wednesday afternoon a melancholy accident occurred at Prospect Creek, near to the Fairfield Railway Station, resulting in the death of two young girls—named Florence Mary Knyvett, and Elizabeth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HARTLEY, 24TH DECEMBER.âThrough floods and storms and the various losses incidental thereto, many people have suffered, but though pecuniary losses wane into insignificance when contrasted with the…
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