Railway Festivities—frightful Accident. October 12
Empire · Monday 16 November 1874 · page 3
The [?] State railway was opened on [?] day last with grand festivities. On the 10th, a grand [?] was held; the Resident, accompanied by the [?] on twenty-seven elephants, was escorted…
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Evening News · Tuesday 17 November 1874 · page 2
Yesterday morning, about 10 o'clock, a woman named Mary Ann M'Vey a widow, who lived alone in a house near Necch's public house, Burwood, was found drowned in a well in the yard at the rear of her…
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Evening News · Wednesday 18 November 1874 · page 2
At 11 o'clock yesterday, a man named Arthur M'Gevock, met with a singular accident. While carting some hayracks away from a mob of sheep which were camped on the Randwick racecourse, the horse…
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Evening News · Wednesday 18 November 1874 · page 3
THE City Coroner held an inquest at the California Inn, Parramatta-street, yesterday afternoon, concerning the cause of death of a man named Edward Ricksby, who was killed on the preceding evening…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 November 1874 · page 10
The Norwich City Coroner left the jury to consider the relative culpabililty of Robson, the telegraph clerk, and Cooper, the night inspector. He referred to Chief Justice Jervis's dictum that manslaughter must arise…
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Evening News · Friday 20 November 1874 · page 2
A child named William Baxter, aged fire years and son of Mr, John Baxter, residing at Five Dock, Burwood, was founded owned in a well near his father's premises, at about half-past 8 o'clock yesterday…
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Evening News · Friday 20 November 1874 · page 3
The inquest on the body of Edward Rickaby, a person employed in the Sugar-refining Works, who was killed there from the breaking of a floor, and the consequent falling upon him of a quantity…
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Evening News · Friday 20 November 1874 · page 2
A lad, 15 yean of age, was taken to the Infirmary, last evening, in an unconscious state. It appears that he was driving a milk cart, and the mother had just got down from the cart, when the back board…
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Evening News · Saturday 21 November 1874 · page 2
The City Coroner held an inquest yesterday afternoon, at the Arlington Hotel. Five Dock, to inquire into the causes that led, to the death of a child named William Baxter, the son of a hawker…
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Evening News · Saturday 21 November 1874 · page 2
A youth, fourteen years of age, employed by Mr. Butler, of the south aide of Park-street, met with a terrible accident about noon yesterday. The boy was employed tending a carding machine, and when in…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 November 1874 · page 18
The City Caroner held an inquest on Tuesday afternoon as the Californian In[?], Parrauna'ta street, on the body of Edward Rieka[?]y Mary Rickaby, wife of deceased, stated that her…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 November 1874 · page 27
Two terrible accidents occurred in Cornish mines on September 12. Six men and boys were working in the Pendriandrea mine in a level, when the ground gave way above them, and four…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 November 1874 · page 27
A MOST serious accident occurred to a gentleman named Brown, staying at the Australian Hotel in Queen-street, at an early hour this morning. It appears that Mr. Brown, who has been staying at…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 November 1874 · page 27
GEELONG pleasure-seekers were much shocked on returning to town this evening, when they learnt that a young lad named Samuel Blair, a son of an old resident in Geelong, had been accidentally…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 November 1874 · page 26
The Hydrabad State railway was opened on Thurs day last with grand festivities, On the 10th, a grand Durbar was hold; the Resident, accompanied by the guests on twenty-seven elephants, was escorted…
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Empire · Sunday 22 November 1874 · page 3
The City Corener held an inquest yesterday forenoon, at the Rising Sun Inn, Canterbury, on the body of a man named Frederick John Shepherd. — Moria O'Neil, daughter of deceased, dep[?]aed that he was 60 years of…
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Empire · Sunday 22 November 1874 · page 2
A VERY serious omnibus accident happened about half-past 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the junction of Parramatta, street and the Globa-read. It will be recollected that there is a very deep precipice…
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Evening News · Tuesday 24 November 1874 · page 3
Between 4 and 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. a singular accident occurred to a man named James White, at the quarry at Pyrmont. White was employed with a horse and dray carting stones, and…
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Evening News · Wednesday 25 November 1874 · page 2
The City Coroner held an inquest at the Observer Tavern, George-street, this morning touching the death of one William Weekes, which, it had been alleged, was caused by a fall down a flight of…
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Empire · Wednesday 25 November 1874 · page 3
ON Fiiday morning an accident in the [?] of the Bathurst G.M. Co., Trunkey [?] by which a young man named Micheal Scalley lost his life. The manager of the mine (Mr. Crighton) has furnished the…
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