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PORTLAND (Oregon), May 6.—This afternoon at 2.30 the steamer Senator, plying between this city and Oregon city, after receiving on board about seventy-five tons of freight and twenty-five passengers, cast off from her dock at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A boat accident, by which seven lives were lost, is reported from Stornoway. One day last week on open boat with seven of a crew, left the village of Borvie, on the west coast of Lewis, to fish. The weather was very rough, and…
Continued on Trove, page 820 →On Sunday last, while the steamer Collaroy was berthed alongside the wharf at Morpoth, an able seaman named John Johnson was drowned. It appears that about 3 o'clock in the afternoon Johnson was on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The recehorse Carbine, belonging to Mr. G. F. Want. jumped overboard from the steamer Governor Blackall on the passage from Brisbane, and was drowned on Tuesday night at half-past nine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is with extreme regret that has fallen to me to record two melancholy accidents befalling two persons, residents in this district; the first being that of Mr. Thomas Quirk, a farmer, who had one farm on the Clyde-road and another at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two men, named respectively Thomas Fobs and Thomas Giblin, were taken to the Infirmary, suffering from crushed hands, said to have been received of board some steamer whilst working among the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ONE of the most wonderful escapes from a watery grave that we OVENS AND MURRAY ADVERTISER) have ever heard of occurred in our district on Sunday last. On Saturday Mr. Mackay, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There was an accident upon the Southern railway yesterday, by which the guard's van attached to a goods train was injured, as well as a freight truck Two goods trains were outward bound, and when some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONE of the most wonderful escapes from a waterygrave that we OVENS AND MURRAY ADVERTISER) have ever heard of occurred in our district un Sunday last. On Saturday Mr Mackay, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The collier brig Dart arrived this morning in tow of the steamtug Mystery, she having been in collision with the collier Eagle. The accident took place off Cape Three Points, and the Dart had her bowsprit…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A very melancholy accident occurred yesterday afternoon (The Melbourne AGE of Wednesday reports) resulting in the death of two persons, in one of the deserted quarry-holes in Park-street, Brunswick, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Respecting the accident to Mr. Fanning, junior, a son of Mr. Fanning, of Messrs. Fanning, Nankivell, and Co., during a recent run of the Melbourne hounds, the Melbourne TELEGRAPH says:—"Mr. Fanning was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Goddard, the contractor for the Additions to the Crown law offices in Macquarie-street, sustained a fracture of one of his ankles, yesterday, through jumping suddenly from a well upon which he was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A singular accident happened on Saturday afternoon, at Newtown, to a little girl, fire years of age, named M'Carroll. She was playing with two other children, one of whom was in the course of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About half-past 6 o'clock this morning, a very severe accident occurred at the Redfern Railway Terminus to a man named Josiah Wanhop. It appears Wanhop was engaged driving a pumping engine, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About ll o'clock to-day, as two omnibuses Woolhara and Surry Hills) were proceeding up Oxford-street, the Woolhara bus, which was ahead suddenly stopped to take up a passenger. The horses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While the keteh Waup was lying off Cape Hawke on Wednesday week last, a boat was sent ashore with some sailors to get a derrick, which wag lying on the beach, off to the vessel. The derrick was put into the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday afternoon last, as Mr. P. J. Hinchy, of the Sydney Hotel, Castlereagh-street, was driving his well-known trotting cob in his buggy, along the Glebe read, he suddenly found the horse take the bit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A digger, named David Cunninghame, attempted, at about 9 o'clock last night, to climb over the iron railing in Hyde Park, and in doing so he slipped on the top, and the spike of one of the rails entered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Marine Board met yesterday afternoon at the office at the Circular Quay. The chair was occupied by Captain Hixson, the president. Henry Walbrook, master of the steamer Susannah Cuthbert, lately wrecked to the north of Sydney…
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