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493 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 25
The following is a summary of the evidence taken upon the inquiry into the cause of death of Robert Buckley, alias Weir, killed ia the railway tunnel on the 31st ultimo:-…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A lad named John Leon, while driving Mr. Peter. Whitelaw's (beker) cart at Paddington on Tuesday morning his horse because frightened by the noise made by a passing cartload of courrugated iron and began to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No less than eleven deaths are reported from drowing in Scotland in one week. The list includes the loss of a boy and a man in the Clyde, near Rutherglen; two brothers in the Forth, near…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →ALCOHOLIC drinks—brandy, wine, beer, &c.—compare very unfavourably with tea and coffee as refreshing beverages, while as "assistant fools" they are quite worthless. Dr. Parkes, professor of hygiene at the Atmy Medical School…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A man named William Thomas Baker, aged 50, residing in Market street, while at dinner yesterday got a fishbone stuck in his' throat, causing him great pain. He was taken to the Infirmary, where Dr. Fream…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An awful event occurred yesterday afternoon at Petersham, whereby two brothers, named William Aldison, aged 9 years, and John Aldi[?]o aged 11 years, were drowned. The particulars of the distre[?]ing case…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shortly after five o'clock yesterday afternoon, a boataccident occrured in Darling Harbour, by which a person named Thomas Kenny lost his life. Kenny was in a dingy in company with Alexander Anderson and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday last (says the Murrurundi Times) a man named James Smith, while preparing to deepen a well as the promises of Mr. Radferd, of Black Creek, met with a [?] and painful accident. The windless…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON monday last (say a the Broke correspondent of the Singleton Times) a sad accident happened to a fine youth named Herbert Watts, son of Mr G. Watts, of Woodlands. He was employed in the field rankingup…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A youth named John Arthur Gabriel, aged 20, seaman of the vessel John Duthie, while working, this morning, a steam pinch, the machinery, caught hit left arm, and fractured it. He was attended to at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About ten minutes to seven o'clock last night a man named Henry Aumuller, keeping a butcher shop on the Parramatta road, was knocked down by a train on the railway line, near Petersham Railway Station, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A dreadful accident (reports the Burrangong Argus) happened on Friday last, by which a fine young man, seventeen years of age, Mr. Stephen Macnamara, of Wyalong, Bland, lost his life. While riding in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mary Summers, aged 30 years, was yesterday taken to the Infirmary by Constable Robbins, suffering from a dislocated ancle caused by a fall iu Argyle-street, near her residence, in Gloucester-street. George…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Coroner, yesterday, held an inquest at William Priest's Observer Tavern, Lower George-street, concerning the death of Thomas Kenny, who was accidentally drowned in Darling Harbour last Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A man named Charles White, a labourer, residing at Rushcutter's Bay, was knocked down by a cab driven by Henry Lightfoot, on the Rusbontter's Bay Road, near the bridge, last night. The rab horse shied in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YESTERDAY afternoon the City Coronerheld, at the Benevoent A[?]fum, Pitt-street South, an inquest touching the circumstances connected with the death of Henry Aumiller, who shortly be ore 7 o'clock on the pervious evening had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamship Hero, on coming up the Bay at one o'clock this morning, was run into by the schooner Eva, which, it will be remembered, went within an ace of being totally wrecked on the coast a few months…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →From the commencement of the gale on Sunday night there was a conquerable amount of uneasiness regarding the steamship City of Melbourne, not so much with respect to the ship herself, an she was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Aman name unknown, was trespassing near the railway carriage shed, between Newtown and Sydney, was killed by the pick-up train at 12.30 p.m. the body which is considerably mutilated, was taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About 9.15 a.m., to-day, the body of a female (unidentified) was found floating in the waters of Darling Harbour, near to the Glebe Island Bridge by Daniel M'Cauley, of Glebe Island. The body was taken out of…
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