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473 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 24
Sergeant Lee reported, this morning, for the information of the City Coroner, that, at about 7 o'clock last night, George Pincombe, aged 60, a dairyman, residing on the ;Botany-road, was found dnowned in a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Thursday morning (reports the 'Newcastle Chronicle') the city was thrown into a state of excitement by heating the alarm gun from Allan's Hill. Upon inquiry, it was discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE MOUNT ALEXANDER MAIL writes :—"On Friday evening last a land selector, who was travelling with a small flock of sheep from the neighbourhood of Strangways northward, had arrived as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An alarming accident happened at the Jerusalem Chamber, Cowper's-court, on March 2, just between 2 and 3 o'clock, when most of the leading merchants of the city had assembled beneath the dome of the building, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 598 →About half—past 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a boy named Francis Marshall, 15 years old, while in Batburst—street, was kicked by a horse in the head. He was picked up insensible and bleeding from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TERRIBLE accident occurred in St. Andrew's Church, New York, on the 26th February. The New York Tribune gives the following particulars:— A terrible calamity, attended with a deplorable loss…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About 4 o'clock p.m. Monday, [?] attended to a baggy, bolted from where it was left standing, down oxford-street. At the same time a young man named W.R. Shepherd, was riding towards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Merri Merri correspondent of the Dubbo Dispatch sends the following particulars of a terrible accident which has just occurred at Quambone:â…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Yesterday afternoon about 5 o'clock, a little child, four years of age, belonging to Mrs. Cunningham, of Shepherd's nursery, was missed. On search being made in the nursery grounds, its usual place for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE MOUNT ALEXANDER MAIL writes:—"On Friday evening last a land selector, who was travelling with a small flock of sheep from the neighbourhood of Strangways northward, had arrived as…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →On Saturday afternoon as the [?] dock, ferry boat was coming alongside the wharf at the foot of Erskine-street, a lad about twelve years of age fall overboard into the water. Immediately Mr. F…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday morning, as the 1.30 train from Goulburn was approaching the bridge over the Mnl-waree Ponds, a short distance from the city. the engine struke one of three [?] the property of a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A child seven years of age, named Mary Cassidy, who lives with her parents in Fitzroy-street, near Moore Park, was taken to the Infirmary about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, having met with a severe accident,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the fierce gale on Friday night last as the ship Whitehall was nearing Sydney Heads a heavy lea brake on board and Knocked mown one of the sailors, hamed Robert Puris, as he was going forward to trim…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SAD accident occurred in the Herald office on Saturday morning last, which resulted in the instantaneous death of Geritt Hendric Middenway. The deceased was about twent eight…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →An accident happened on the 14th instant, to a man named Reuben Smith, in the employ of Mr. Purchase, of this town. It appears that Smith was assisting to stack a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A plasterer named Michael Longhurst, met with a severe accident yesterday morning. He was engaged plastering the ceiling of room and the steps. on which he was standing being placed on the to of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A lad, 12 years of age, named William Robinson, who lives with his parents in Castlereagh street, met with a severe accident yesterday afternoon. He was firing some crackers when one of them exploded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About half-past 7 o'clock this morning, a lad, thirteen years of age, named William Donohue, the son of a blacksmith living at Chippendale, while getting down from a waggon, at the Haymarket, slipped and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE City Coroner held an inquest this morning at 9 o'clock the Ship inn, Success street, touching the death of a child named Agnes Waked, aged four months who was found dead in her bed by her mother at her residence in [?]…
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