Drowned in a Well
The City Coroner held an inquest yesterday [?]orning at the Newtown Inn, Cook's River road, on the body of the man William Fry, found in a well on the previous day. The evidence adduced went, to…
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News for the Day Curious Accident
A man named Michael Cannon, cook on boards the Atalante, schooner, was taken to the Infirmary, yesterday morning, having met with en accident witch promised at first to be attended with very…
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About 9. o'clock this morning an accident becurred in George-street, near the the Genera Post Office, to a Mr. John Selwin, in the employ of Messrs. Hoffnung and Co. Mr. Selwin, who lives at Newtown,…
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A DREADFUL railway accident, in which thirty-one persons were killed and upwards of seventy wounded, occurred yesterday morning on the Great Western Railway line, a few hundred yards from the…
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It is our painful duty to chronicle one of the most terrible railway disasters which han ever happened in this country. On December 21, at 11.40, an express train bound for the north, and…
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YESTERDAY a [?] accident occurrea to an express train on the Great Western Railway at Shipton, near Oxford. The train to which the accident occurred is the express from Oxford to…
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On Saturday afternoon, Henry Parrish, a manufacturer of some explosive material, residing in the suburbs, was blown up and killed by an explosion. It appears that he had over 2 cwt. of…
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Between 4 and 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a little boy, the ton of Mr. Baker, of Kent street, while running across York-street, opposite the Flower Pot Inn, wu knocked down by a baker's and the…
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THE City Coroner held an inquest at the Observer Tavern, George-street north, on the body of a man named Thomas Duncan, who was found drowned in a waterhole at the east side of Circular Quay,…
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About half-past 5 o'clock, yesterday afternoon, while a young man, named James Gallagher, was driving a dray along York-street, near Barrack-street, an omnibus passed him and frightened his horse. The…
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The opera singers in Tasmania have been having some new experiences. The Corn wall Chronicle of the 16th inst. Bays:—"O Saturday evening, as Burbury's coach…
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Yesterday a dreadful accident occurred to an express train on the Great Western Railway at Shipton, near Oxford. The train to which the accident occurred is the express from Oxford to…
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Between the hours of 1 and 2 o'clock this morning the watchman on board the ship William Duthie lying at the eastern Quay, heard a splash in the water, be ween the ship and the wharf, and…
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The Manly Beach steamer Phantom narrowly escaped being wrecked yesterday morning. During the height of the neree south-east gale, and while she was crowing the heads on her way to Sydney, a very…
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AN inquest was held, yesterday afternoon, by the City Coroner, at the Observer Tavern, touching the death of a man named John Cummons, lying dead at the Deadhouse, Circular Quay…
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THE City Coroner held an inquest at the Observer Tavern, yesterday afternoon, on the body of a man named James Cummings, which had been found early that morning in the water, on the eastern…
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YESTERDAY afternoon news reached Sydney of the death by drowning, in the Paterson River, of the Hon. W M. Arnold, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. From the particulars to hand it…
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A very narrow escape from bung run over, and in all probability being lolled, occurred about half-past 5 o clock yesterday afternoon, in Lower Georgestreet, close to [?] -street, to a little boy, aged four…
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A very serious accident occurred to-day, at noon, which might have terminated fatally. The hones attached to Dr Eichler's carriage were affrighted by a runaway saddled horse, and bolted down Hunter street,…
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SIR,—The report with regard to the casualty to the Phantom is slightly incorrect as to the anchor not being lowered before the arrival of the crew of the Rosebud. I beg to state, as a passenger, that…
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