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493 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 25
AT 5.30 o'clock this morning a collision took place between the Torres Straits mail steamer Queensland and the steamer Barrabool. The Queensland was so much injured that in forty-five minutes after the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Sunday, the 30th July, reports the Hobart Town Mercury, the body of a young man about 20 years of age, named Richard Doram, who had been a few months from Sydney, and was employed by Mr. Wise…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE quiet neighbourhood of Tai Tapu, New Zealand (writes the Canterbury Times of the 15th July), has been thrown into a state of very considerable excitement by the occurrence of an extraordinary case of…
Continued on Trove, page 183 →THE quiet neighbourhood of Tai Tapu, says the Canterbury Times, New Zealand, has been thrown into a state of very considerable excitement by the occurrence of an extraordinary case of drowning, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →An investigation into the cause of the collision between the steamers Barrabool and Queensland takes place to-morrow. Captain Craig, of the Queensland, makes the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Referring to a fatal accident which occurred last week to John M' Millan, a miner at Silver Creek, the Ovens Spectator, says it is only one of the most extraordinary series of fatalitias amongst relations and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A PRELIMINARY inquiry into the circumstances attending the collision which took place between the R.M.S. Bowen and the barque Helen Malcolm, off Barrenjucy, on the 29th of July last, was instituted by the Marine Board on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday evening last about 6 o'clock, and during a heavy small, a small sailing boat, containing a lady and gentleman, capsized off Cremorae Point. Fortunately Mr. A. Byrne was pasting in one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We learn from the Melbourne Daily Telegraph that at the inquiry into the late serious collision between the Barrabool and the Queensland steamships, the agents of the latter vessel were represented by Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday night, the police and the few pedestrians abroad in Hunter-street, were alarmed by a man rushing along the street from the direction of the Market Wharf, and crying out help! help!!…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two vehicles came into violent collision about half-past six o'clock last night on the Cook's River road, Newtown. It appears that a man named Michael Moss (together with his sister), residing at Gennan's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thomas Moore, aged 17, employed at the Herald office, was at mid-da on Tuesday received into the Sydney infirmary, with leg broken at the ankle, caused by some portion of the machinery, which he was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bathurst at Free Press reports that an accident of rather a serious nature happened to the Rev. Canon Smith on Sunday last. The gentleman was being driven by his younger son to the afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN Inquiry was commenced on monday last into the circumstances attending the collision between the steam-tug Southland and the screw steam-collier Warat[?]h, which occurred on the morning of the 30th July last, when outside the bell-b[?]y…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A PRELIMINARY inquiry was commenced on Monday last into the circumstances attending the collision between the steam-tug Southland and the screw steamcollier Waratah, which occurred on the morning of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 2 o'clock this morning, while some railway trucks were being shunted on to some sidings at the Rooty Hill station between Black town and South Creek, the engine of a pasting goods train came into collision…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Several fatal explosions are among the tragedies of the month. On the 22nd June six men were killed and a seventh seriously mutilated by an explosion of dynamite in a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →YESTERDAY morning, shortly before 5 o'clock, the dead bo[?] of John Inghs, late of 5[?], M[?]ls-street, Pyrmont, was found [?]ng in the waters of Darling Harbour, at the foot of John-street, Py[?]mont. His reason is understood to have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SELDOM has a greater disaster to shipping occurred in the colonies than the collision between the abovenamed steamers, which resulted in the total loss of the Queensland, the latest addtion to the fine fleet of the Eastern and Australian Steam[?]…
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