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473 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 24
A severe accident occurred, about half-past 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, to a man named Patrick Kennedy, who was engaged at the time pressing wool at Marsden's wool stores, Circular Quay. It appears…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Thursday, the 31st December, a dreadful accident occurred to an express train on the Great Western Railway at Shipton, near Oxford. The train to which the accident happened was the express from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →About 5 o'clock on Wednesday evening, a Norwegian named Christian Norman, a shipwright by trade, while squaring ship's timbers at Lake Macquarie, accidentally and severely cut one of his ankle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Thursday, the 31st December, a dreadful accident occurred to an express train on the Great Western. Railway at Shipton, near Oxford. The train to which the accident happened was the express from…
Continued on Trove, page 362 →About 10 o'clock this morning an accident of a serious nature occurred on board the steamer "Morpeth," lying at the N.H.R. Co.'s wharf, between King and Market streets. One of the sailors, named Thos…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, while Mr. John Lamb was driving with his coachman, in a buggy, along College-sterrt,a van came in collision with the vehicle, near st. Mary's Cathedral. The pin which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Thirty killed, a larger number of persons seriously injured, and great destruction ef railway plant, is practically the verdict of the late railway accident in England, at Shipton; the cause, breaking of a tire on the wheel of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the arrival of the Tagus at Plymouth, details are to hand of the recent dangerous accident that befel the Royal Mail Company's steamship Nile, Captain R. Revett, on her passage from Southampton to the West Indies, with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the arrival of the Tagus at Plymouth, details are to hand Of the recent dangerous accident that befel the Royal Mail Company's steamship Nile, Captain R. Bereft, on her passage from Southampton to the West ladies, with…
Continued on Trove, page 402 →While a party of eight Italians were out on Easter Monday on a fishing and snooting excursion up the Lane Cove River, one of them (Mr. A. Tornaghi) instrument maker, of George-Street, had the misfortune…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN inquest was held by the City Coroner, yesterday, at the Botany Bay Hotel, Botany, on the body of the young man, Garvio De Mestre Thompson, who was shot on Sunday last, while upon a shooting excursion with some friends. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A man named Arthur Drarrant, in the employ of Mr. Yorke, butcher, fell from a cart he was driving yesterday afternoon, and received a fracture of the skull. When taken to the Infirmary, at about 2 p.m.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The PILOT gives the particulars of the lamentable accident to the two little children of the printsman near Waratah, of which we were briefly advised by telegram. The eldest of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An accident of a rather alarming nature, by which several persons were injured, occurred on Sunday afternoon at Bondi. One of the Waverley and Woollahrs Company's buses (No. 145), which 1[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—A few days ago, I was much pleased in reading a letter which appeared in your journal on the above im portant subject, and was glad to see, by your leading artiole of this morning, that the remarks therein made had not…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →This morning, a rather serious accident occurred to a boy named Henry Brookes, employed it Partridge's galvanised sine works, comer of Bathurst and George streets. It being meal time, the boys were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, as a man named William Perry, who resided at the Glebe, was driving a cart laden with freestone from the Pyrmont quarries along Harris-street close to the Glassworks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An accident, which threatened to prove serious occurred this this morning, to a Warerley 'bus, No. 134. The vehicle, loaded with passengers, was proceeding down the South Head Road, Oxford-street, when, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—I have been led to a consideration of this subject, of which we have lately had so many terrible instances, by ferding Mr. S. H. Pearce's letter in your issue of the 5th [?]tsn[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About half-past 2 a.m., yesterday, a man was found drowned at Hadsons Wharf, near Liverpool Street. The body is that of a man about thirty years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, with brown hair,…
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