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491 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 25
On Wednesday afternoon, during the process of trucking sheep at the Bathurst railway station, a little boy aged eight years, a son of Mr. Barnett, an employee at Denny's Foundry, was amongst the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two young ladies, daughters of Captain O'Sullivan had a narrow narrow from drowning at Newcastle on Wednesday afternoon. While bathing on the bench, at the "ladies bathing place," the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE District Coroner (Mr. J. E. Bowden) held an inquest at Ryde, on Thursday, tousling the death of a Lad named James Tools…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE DISTRICT Coroner (Mr. J. E. Bowd[?]n) held an inquiry, on Saturday, at the Asylum for the Infirm and Destitute on the body of John Dixon an inma[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At half-past eight o'clock last night, the second officer of the steamship Edina brought to the Infirmary, a man whose name is not yet known, suffering from a serious injury of the skull which, this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A MINER was killed recently in the Uncle Tom Mine, Lucknow (near Orange)—how is explained in the evidence subjoined. The case is only one of thousands which illustrate the carelessness of miners in their work with explosives,…
Continued on Trove, page 213 →At the inquest this afternoon on the body of the man found in Johnson's Bay. Pyrmont, it was identfied as that of an engineer named William Wentworth, recently employed at the Atias from works…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The men Michael Stephenson and John Larkins, who were severely injured in the lute railway collision, an fast recovering. They an able to walk about the wards of the Infirmary, and will soon be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About 8 o'clock this morning a married man named Willmot, was admitted to the Infirmary suffering from very serious injuries to his back. It appears that he was in the employ of Mr. Bird, a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Coroner to-day concluded the inquiry respecting the death of a man, name unknown, whoso dead body was found in a quarry hole, almost covered with water, on the west side of the Ultimo Estate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following minute of the Secretary for Public Works on evidence given at the inquiry held by him with reference to the railway accident at Emu Plains on the night of the 30th January, 1878, and system of working the trains, was laid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At 8 o'clock on Thursday evening, George Pardue who had been found guilty of manslaughter was, placed before his Honor Sir James Martin, Kat., Chief Justice, for sentences. After the usual question…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN inquest was held at Ryde on Thursday, the 14th instant, before the District Coroner (Mr. J. E. Bowden) on the body of James Tools, aged 13. The evidence taken was as follows: —Margaret Toole, a widow residing at Ryde, deposed: The…
Continued on Trove, page 248 →THE deep public concern in the questions arising out of the lamentable collision which took place on the Great Western Railway during the night of the 30th January, will doubtless have led many to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On our first page we give an acourate sketch, of the late dreadful accident at Emu Plains, the harrowing details of which have been so fully given by the daily newspapers. It appears that on Wednesday night, 30th January, a special…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AT the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday GEORGE PURDUE, the guard of the special uptrain which came into collision with a downtrain near Emu Plains, on the night of the…
Continued on Trove, page 240 →HARTFORD, January 16.—A serious railroad accident happened on the Connecticut Western Railroad, just beyond Tariffville, about ten miles from Hartford, at 10 o'clock this evening. An excursion train, returning from the…
Continued on Trove, page 237 →Between 3 and 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon two men went fishing in a flat-bottomed boat off Five Dock in the Parramatta River. Somehow the boat capsized, and one of the men, named Chas. Maxted,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday evening Mr. Dingar and a friend engaged a cabman at the corner of Market street, for the prupose of proceeding toMore Park to see the cricket match. When entering College Street the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Upon inquiry the Infirmary we learn that the two men, Larkins and Stephenson, who ware serioudly injured in the late lamentable railway collision are contrary to expectation, still conuned to their [?]…
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