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473 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 24
A correspondent writes as follows from Madura, August 8th, to tHe MADRAS MAIL:—"Intelligence has been received at this station of a frightful catastrophe, which befel a party of pilgrims to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE marine sketch, we give in this issue shows the sequel of the disastrous collision which took place in the Solent, near Ryde, on the 18th August. As the Alberta, royal yacht, Commander Fullerton, was conveying her Majesty and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A collision occurred between the Somerasopare (?) and the Cutty Sark, bound for Sydney. The latter returned to dock…
Continued on Trove, page 718 →A correspondent writes as follows from Madura, August 8th, to the MADRAS MAIL:—"Intelligence has been received at this station of a frightful catastrophe, which befel a party of pilgrims to the…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The New York papers of a short time since describe a terrible scene at the funeral of Mrs. Phillip Bissinger and her three children, who had been drowned at Reading Pennsylvania, Bissinger…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Two miners named Brand and Fletcher were seriously injured at Hill End on Wednesday last, by the explosion of a shot in a hole they were "tamping." Brand is hurt beyond hope of recovery, and Fletcher,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. H. Taylor, M.L.A., was severely shaken on Thursday, by being thrown from his horse as he was crossing Elizabeth Farm. An ill-conditioned cur caused the accident by biting Mr. Taylor's horse and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We are sorry to state that a very serious and painful accident happened to our member, Mr. H. Taylor, on Thursday last, It applaud that as he was riding across Elisabeth Farm, a dog…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday last an accident occurred to Mrs Taylor and her son, which but for the prompt and plucky conduct of "Tom," an employe in the Royal Alfred steamer, might have been attended with very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A lad named Edward Johnson had his left arm severely lacerated on Saturday morning at Dixson's Tobacco Factory, in York-street. The unfortunate boy, who was engaged to assist the engineer in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The HILL END TIMES records a very serious mining accident which occurred at about 5 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, to Messrs. Brand and Fletcher. It appears that at the hour named they were engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Can you inform your readers whether there is any place in sydney where persons taken out of th[?] water partly drowned would be received and hav[?] that immediate care and attention which their case…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON Saturday evening last Mr. John Cahill, late foreman. engineer, was accidentally killed by being thrown off his horse while riding through Woollahra. An inquest was held on the body…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →On Thursday afternoon (says the PILOT) an accident occurred by the upsetting of a boat in the harbour, which nearly resulted in the loss of six lives. The particulars, which have been furnished by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The 'American slup Message Captain F. G. [?] arrived nine days from San [?] at Port Townsend, and reports picking up a part [?] the pilot-house twenty miles south of Cape Flattery, and [?] Jelly, the only…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE intelligence was flashed over the wires of the northern coast yesterday afternoon that the steamer Pacific had foundered off Cape Flattery, and that all on board had been engulphed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A little boy, aged fifteen months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Welburn, residents near Messrs. Denning and Barden's tannery, on the company's side, Tamworth (says the NEWS) was drowned on Thursday afternoon. infant brother floating with the head beneath the water. The body was at once taken out, and found to be quite dead. Dr. Callaghan was sent for, but life being extinct, his services were unavailing. An…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday evening last a youth named Henry Nelson Brown, stepson of Mr. Thomas Ellington, shipbuilder, of Currumbene Creek, Jervis Bay, while employed in assisting to arrest the running bush fires…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday, just as the 9 a.m. train arrived at Parramatta, the Hon. John Lackey, Minister for Works, drove up to the station in his buggy drawn by two horses. Having alighted to speak to Mr. Long, M.P.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At one o'clock to-day a little girl named Stokes, whose parents reside at Victoria Barracks, was run over by a buggy at the junction of King and Pitt-streets. She wa conveyed home in a buggy. Her…
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