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77 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 4
WE have been favoured by Captain Keft and the Chief officer of the steamar Kiama, with the following particulars of the loss of three of the crew of that vessel by drowning, at the port of Wollongong. The following is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—I was very much surprised at the decision of the Steam Navigation Board relative to the collision between the Em[?] and Williams. Captain Cha[?]field receives all the blame[?]not for want of vigilance, nor for neglect of…
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Continued on Trove, page 14 →WE are indebted to the proprietors of the Illawarra Express for slips giving the full particulars of the inquest on the bodies of Henry Nelson, Alexander M'Phee, and Sydney Mountcastle who were drowned by the upsetting of the Kiama's boal off…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON Wednesday last the inquests on the bodies of Alexander M'Phee, Sydney Mountcastle, and Henry Wilson, drowned out of a boat belonging to the Kiama, steamer, whilst coming from that vessel in the boat to the Wollongong Wharf for a load of coal on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LAST night another meeting of the unemployed assembled to the number of about 400 or 500 in Macquarie-street, opposite the House of Assembly, where they were again addressed by the gentlemen who have so liberally and energetically performed that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following is the report forwarded to the Colonial Secretary by the members of the Steam Navigation Board, appointed to enquire into the particulars of the above accident. "We have the honour to transmit the minutes of evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE bodies of the two men reported to be missing from Newtown in yesterday's issue, and supposed to have been drowned at Cook's River, have been found by constable Ferrelly and others who, since last Monday, have been indefatigable in their…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following is the report forwarded to the Colonial Secretary by the members, of the Steam Navigation Board, appointed to esquire into the particulars of the above accident. We have the honour to transmit the minutes of evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 77 →THE Steam Navigation Board of New South Wales inaugurated an investigation, on the 7th instant, touching the collision between the steamer Commissary-General and Major Hasell's boat, on the Parramatta River, near Five…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE inquiry before the Steam Navigation Board, touching the collision between the steamer Commi[?]ry-General and Major Hasell's boat, which took on the Parramatta River, on the evening of the 12th ultim[?], whereby…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN investigation into the collision between the steamer Commissary-General and a boat belonging to Major H[?]sel, on the 12th April, near Five Dock, Parramatta River, took place before the Steam Navigation Board of New South Wales, on Monday, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE enormous number of accidents which occur to the lives and limbs of those engaged in mining pursuits has long been a subject but too prominently before the public. Scarcely a copy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OUR readers, and the pabilc generally, will learn, with regret, that tbe extension of the Great Western Railway, which was to have been opened to Blacktown yesterday, for public traffic, was not opened, in consequence of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THIS last week there have been several serious accidents in this neighbournood, with a fatal result in one of the cases. A young girl named Catherine Hackett, seventeen years of age, residing with her…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YESTERDAY, shortly before noon, a fine little boy, between four and five years old, was killed at Parramatta, by an accident at once shocking and singular. The child was the son of Mr. Ferris, draper. Two of the men employed about the premises had been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WE ara indebted to the courtesy of the honorable the Treasurer for the following copy of the New South Wales Stearn Navigation Board's Report on the collision between the steamar Commissary-General and Major…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →character occurred in Bourke-street, at a public-house kept by a Mrs. Canavan. Owing to some cause with which we are unacquainted, an explosion of gas took place, bursting the gas pipe, breaking up the flooring boards, displacing furniture, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,— I think it will be admitted that the means hitherto and at present adopted to stop the progress of vessels at sea, when impending danger may arise of coming in collision, or of being driven ashore, by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Sumpter (U.S.) Watchman extra, received by this morning's mail, contains the full particulars of the late sad accident at Camden, by which twenty-seven persons, mostly females,…
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