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493 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 25
The City Coroner yesterday afternoon held an inquest, at the Kent Hotel, Palmer-street, Balmain, concerning the death of a boy named Robert, Thomas Moate, aged 5 years, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Moste. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following evidence given at the late inquest, at Ash Island, on the bodies of William and Albert Manning, who were drowned in the Hunter, near Tomago, explains how the sad event occurred:-James…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday afternoon three [?] named Robert Wright, Alexander Ag[?] and [?] shingling the roof of a [?] in Harris-street, Ultimo. About six o'clock, just before knocking off…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A man, named Alfred Thearie, aged 26 years, resiting at 404, Sussex-street, this morning, while standing underneath a building in that street, sustained a serious wound from a chisel which war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fearful railway accident occurred on August 7 at midnight, between Radstock and Wellow, on the Bath and Evercreech branch of the Somerset and Dorset Railway. The line is a single one, worked…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The city coroner, on Saturday afternoon, held an inquest at the Randwick Destitute Children's Asylum, concerting the death of a boy named Charles M'.Naughton. Mrs. A. E. Pollock, sub-matron of the infants…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wellington Gazette is sorry to have to state that on the 13th instant, a little boy, aged 13 months, son of Mr. Bowie, Wellington Flat, was drowned in the Bell River. It appears that Mrs. Bowie went from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Inglewood correspondent of the Bendigo Advertiser mentions an extraordinary instance of fatality in one family. He writes:-The accident; which happened to Mr. Robert Pollock, of Bualbul…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A man named Frederick John Morris was found dead in his bed (says the Melbourne Telegraph of Saturday) on Thursday morning at Collingwood. Yesterday morning an inquest was held upon the body by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A man named Thomas Bums, aged 34 years, died in the Infirmary this morning, from the effects of a kick from, an omnibus horse Byrnes was employed at the Glebe Stables of the Sydney United Omnibus…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday last, about 12.30, an accident occurred to the ballast train about four miles on the Bathurst side of Blayney. The cause, according to the Bathurst Independent, was as follows:—A cow had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A very sad case of drowning occurred on the Macquarie, near Tumberabongi, on Tuesday evening. A young man, named Bernard Murnane (son of Mrs. Murnane, of Swallow Creek, near Bathurst), was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About half-past eleven o'clock this morning a man named Thomas Hitches, aged 27 years, employed by Mr. George Muir, baker, of Woollahra, met with a serious accident in Victoria-street, near William-street…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday, a butcher named Joseph Crafgon aged 29 years, while out shooting near the city iron works, near the Globe Island Bridge, [?] with a severe [?]unshot wound. Craigon had handed a loaded revolver…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A young woman named Dora Foley, residing in King-street, was treated at the Infirmary to-day for injuries received by a cart accident near Penrith, yesterday morning. Miss Foley and a little boy were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamship Morpeth left the H. R. N.S. N. Co.'s wharf at her usual time on Sunday night for the Hunter; but when steaming down the harbour, one of her cylinders cracked, and she was consequently unable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A man named Louis Rosenstock, a dealer, aged 28 years, yesterday afternoon fell down a cellar at Mr.O'Ncill's hotel, near Lower George street, and sustainer some injuries to his left ribs. A boy named John…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A boat accident occurred at about 7 o'clock on Thursday evening in Middle Harbour, whereby the lives of four persona, two young women and two young men, were greatly imperilled. It appears that as one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday afternoon a woman named Loyal was driving a milk-cart through [?]- street, [?], when the horse, which was a young one, bolted and upset the cart. Mrs. Loyal, who had a child in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The City Corner held an inquest last Saturday afternoon at Mrs. F. Dodd's, Albion Hotel, Darling-street Balmain, on the body of Benjamin Alfred Naphali Jones, lying dead at the residence of the deceased's…
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