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71 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 4
SIR—It was with feelings of regret that I read in your issue of Saturday last a letter from the crew of the Zephyr, purporting to give a correct statement of the last and boat accident. I feel that I should not be doing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.—The crew of the Zephyr, consions that their attempted exoneration will not have the eff of of convincing the public that upon the recent melanoboly occasion they acted as the ordinary feelings common to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE have been requested to publish the following correspondence:—. Sydney, January 3,1865, W. Fairfax, Erq.—Dear Sir.—The. very unfair reports…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Having reason to believe from what I have heard to-day, that I have been mis'nformed in one trifling particular, I hasten to correct the error. It appears that the Chassing about letters for Sydney preceeded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Some thirty years ago I was signal midshipman to a lineof battle ship on the South American station, where a race took place between two decked launches belinging to an English and French man-of-war. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Is is not unseemly that this distrassing occurrence should be made the subject of a prolonged newspaper controversy? An inques? has been held and the crew of the Zaphyr exonerated. Is not that more than enough?…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ACCIDENTS.—A seaman, named John Craig, who was lodging at Kerr's Hotel, comer of King and Sussex streets, fell from the top balcony of that house, at about half-past two o'clock on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday morning week a dreadful accident which terminated fatally in one case, and it is feared will do so in the second case, occurred on the Ulster Railway, a few miles from Armagh…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Accident.—Last Tuesday evening week a man named Thomas Cox having camped in the vicinity of the Junction bridge, went to look for his horse, which had strayed about dusk. The night being dark and Cox'a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Oh, golly, JIM, there's my locust got into that Coves beard!…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SIR,—In your report of the above you say that deceased was the wife of John Collins, farmer. Now, Sir, in justice to my friend, Mr. John Collins, of Mount St. Patrick, Pitt Water, I deem it my duty to state…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An accident, attended with fatal consequences, took place at at quarter past five o'clock on Saturday evening to the passenger train which leaves Dublin at one p.m. The train, from causes wholly…
Continued on Trove, page 75 →I SAY, MISSUS, IS THIS 'ERE YOUR BACK 'AIR?…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the 3rd instant, at Tunis, a cutter of H M.S. Orlando was upset in a squall, and eight officers, three seamen and a marine were lost; one man only, the coxswain, was saved…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is our most painful duty to record a very sad accident which occurred at the mouth of the Buller River on Saturday last, the 28th instant, by which his Honor J. P. Robinson, Esq., Superintendent of this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHAT amount of warning and experience will avail to prevent people from getting out of a railway carriage while it is still in motion? This is a question asked all over the country every few days; and each…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →STREET ACCIDENT.—An accident happened at about half-past two on Sunday afternoon, in Woolloomooloo. A horse attached to a dogcart became frightened when near the corner of Forbes and Corfu streets and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HITHERTO we have had cause for thankfulness that the construction of our railway has been so wonderfully free from those fatal accidents which have marked such undertakings elsewhere. Of sickness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A frightful accident has occurred on the railway line between Colombo and Ragamme. It appears that a train of six trueks started from Colombo about half-past five on Saturday evening, carrying four of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HITHERTO we have had cause for thankfulness that the construction of our railway has been so wonderfully free from those fatal accidents which have marked such undertakings elsewhere. Of sickness…
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