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In the Jury Court yesterday, the action brought by George Spears against Messrs. Smith Brothers, for the lost of the schooner Clark by a collision with the steamship Macedon, terminated by the jury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ADELAIDE,Thursday.—Mr. David Buchan, who left Scotland in 1875 or 1870, for New Zealand, and who was afterwards in Sydney in August last, and in Melbourne more recently, was drowned at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MARYBAROUGH, Wednesday.—A dreadful accident occurred at the Bristol Hill claim yesterday. Two miner, named Henry Martin and Richard Conway, were engaged in sinking the shaft at a depth of 480…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday afternoon about a quarter to four, six or seven men were employed on Liverpool-street in front of Hyde Park Terrace, seraping the street, when two gentlemen drove down the street in a gig with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A railway accident, fortunately not attended by any loss of life or personal injury, occurred at the end of last month to the "down" weatern mail train, which left Sydney at [?].10 p.m. on Monday, and did not reach Orange till an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On February 17, about ten in the morning, the passenger steamer C. M. Palmer, Captain Cay, of Newcastle, bound thence for London with about sixty passengers, was proceeding up the Channel,…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →ADELAIDE, Saturday.—A large party proceeded by special train yesterday to attend the opening of the Burra and Hallett Railway. The Commissioner for Public Works, the members for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Friday, May 2, as Cobb and Co.'s mail coach was proceeding from Gundagai to Albury, an accident of a most serious nature happened to Mrs. M'Evoy, who was passenger on the coach. The YASS COURIER…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Constable Coolyan, on Thursday, about seven o'clock, found a man named Boyd lying in the Domain in an unconscious condition. He was immediately conveyed to the Infirmary, where he died at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A terrible colliery accident occurred this morning at Kilsyth, not far from Blantyre, where an accident of a similar nature took place a few months ago. Mining enterprise has of late years…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →The City Coroner, on Friday, held an inqu[?] the Infirmary respecting the death of a boy named Augustine Frederick Webster, aged two years, son of John Webster, of Winslow terrace…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Baltimore, March 25,1878.—A horrible fatality, and one that has few, if any, parallels, occurred late on Sunday night at Frederick Junction, on the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The danger that seafaring persons subject themselves, and frequently others too, during the boating excursions in the harbour is continually manifesting" itself. Jack has an unhappy method of putting his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YASS, Wednesday.—A man named Groves was killed yesterday at Tanmangaroo by a dray falling on him…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Berrima, yesterday afternoon, a man named Nelson met with a very serious accident, through a brick wall falling on him. The unfortunate man was conveyed in a spring cart to Mittagong, when he was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HOBART TOWN, Saturday.—Mr. Surveyor Sprout, who has arrived at Bischolf from Pieman, reports that a Mr. Richardson and another tourist have been drowned, with three, others, in Macquarie…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ADELAIDE, Friday.—The Municipal Council and the Kensington Tramway Company are in conflict with reference to the latter exercising unauthorised powers.—A little boy playing with a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It again falls to our painful duty to record another dreadful railway casuality, by which Mr.William Prendergast, clerk, residing at Darling Harbour, lost his life.It appears the unfortunate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The City Coroner, last Saturday afternoon, held an inquest at the Infirmary, respecting the death of William John Pendar[?] who died from injuries accidentally received on the railway at Croydon platform…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →While the memorial stone of the Wesleyan College at Stanmore was being laid, last Saturday afternoon, the Rev J.H. Fletcher, President of the Newington College, met with a very painful accident…
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