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The Melbourne Steamship Company's steamer Macedon, bound for Sydney, grounded on Venus Shoal yesterday, at 3 p.m., in a heavy sea, but got off after bumping heavily for ten minutes, the sea making…
Continued on Trove, page 64 →BRISBANE, Monday.—The body of Mr. Behrens, of the firm of Messrs. Behrens, Ranniger, and Co., of this city, and who has been missing from his residence at South Brisbane since Tuesday, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shortly before 3 o'clock this morning an infant child belonging to a woman named Julia Wilson, a servant at the Working Men's Restaurant, George-street West, was found dead in bed with its mother…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A dreadful accident, by which a young man in the prime of life, named William Russell, lost his life, on Saturday morning, at Mr. Gray's warehouse, in course of erection in York-street, where he was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Just as the ship William Duthie was about to proceed to sea, on Saturday, a terrible accident happened to one of the seamen. The man, after using his knife, dropped it into his pocket handle down instead…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—At a concert at Inglewood on Saturday, while it was proceeding, a kerosene lamp burst, and the contents fell amongst the audience, severely injuring several persons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GUNDAGAI, Tuesday.—John Thomas Bowler, a carpenter, aged 24, employed at Hayes's flour mill, mt bathing at Johnson's corner, in the Murrumbidgee River, last evening, with two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Coroner yesterday afternoon held an inquest at his office, respecting the death of a carpenter named William Russell, who died from the effects of injuries received by falling with a cage, or lift, a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An official inquiry into the cause of the explosion of one of the guns on board H.M.S. Thunderer, in the Gulf of Ismid, by which several men were killed, has been held. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A melancholy case of drowning occurred yesterday afternoon to a promising young man named William Bell, son of Captain Bell, the wall known harbour pilot of the Marine Board, It appeared that about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Thursday.—A fearful accident occurred on the occasion of the ceremony of the opening of Parliament. During the firing of the salute by the Volunteer Artillery, one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Friday.—The funeral of gunners Walsh and Wilkie, who were killed at the Garden Battery, by the bursting of a cannon, took place yesterday afternoon. There was a large attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Coroner, yesterday afternoon, held an inquest at the Commercial Hotel, Balmain, respecting the death of a young engineer, named William Bell, who was accidentally Browned about 5 o'clock on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Saturday.—A son of Mr. Whiting, of Beenleigh, fell off the wharf at Loganholme yesterday and was drowned. The body was recovered shortly afterwards…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—The leader in your issue of the 4th instant will nature cause the public mind to d well again upon the sad catastrophic on our railway some twelve months age, and I hope…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our readers have been informed by telegram of this sad event, which took place on the 6th instant at Lake Alexandrian, the waters into which the river Murray empties in South Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 110 →BRISBANE, Monday.—An inquiry into the late artillery accident was commenced on Saturday. Major Drury, Captain Bernard, Sergeant-Major Sankey, and Sergeant Croft, one of the injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Monday.—A miner, named William Moore, was killed on Thursday in No. 2 Golden Crows Claim, Gympie, by a fall of earth while surface cutting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GRAFTON, Saturday.—A boy named Walker, in the employ of Mr. Alderton, butcher, was thrown put of a cart while driving this morning, and was severely injured. He was removed to the hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Early yesterday morning a ganger on the permanent way, named Cornelius Fleming (brother of William Flemming, who was killed at the Parramatta Junction about two yean ago), was found dead under the…
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