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654 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 33
An accident of a very melancholy nature took place in the Queen's Park yesterday morning (says the COURIER of the 16th instant). It is customary to fire a vice-regal salute of seventeen guns on the Governor's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Queensland Marine Board have held an inquiry into the striking of the A.S.N. Company's steamer Katoomba on the North Spit of the Venus Bank, in Moreton Bay, on the night of the 1st January; the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The city coroner last Saturday afternoon held a magisterial inquiry at Winchelsea Valley. Kogarah, concerning the death of a man named Robert Bolton. Elizabeth Skinner, of 222, Castlereagh-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our readers have been informed by telegram of this sad event, which tool place on the 6th instant at Lake Alexandrina, the waters into which the river Murray empties in South Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An accident of a very shocking nature occurred at Rockley last Monday week(says the Bathurst INDEPENDENT of January 21). From an interview with the father of the unfortunate victim, we are able to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On New Year's Eve the larrikins did not let the Chinese alone, for they broke several windows in houses where Chinese are living. In Lower George-street the police had great trouble, and had to charge a crowd of them…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.—A boy named Fuller was drowned in the Bremer River, at Ipswich, yesterday. The body was recovered an hour afterwards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest has been held at Campbelltown on the body of ganger Cornotius Fleming, found under Gleenlee railway bridge, between [?] and Campbelltown, The verdict of the jury was that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CONDOBOLIN, Wednesday,âA young man named Walter Hagall, aged about 22 years, was drowned last Thursday, in the Billabong Creek, between Burrawang and Condobolin. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terrible railway accident occurred shortly before 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the railway bridge, a short distance beyond Homebush railway station, by which a young man (named John Hollis lost his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible collision took place shortly after midnight on Tuesday morning, of Folkestone, a few miles only from the scene of the Grosser Kurfurst catastrophe, resulting in the loss of about fifty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Saturday.—A carrier named James Brown has been killed through a fall from his dray while on the road from Burrandown to Warriga. The wheel went over his body, killing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The City Coroner yesterday afternoon held an inquest at the Brecknock Arms, Lower George-street, respecting the death of a railway locomotive fireman, named John Mathias Olli[?], 21 years old, who fell off…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We understand that Mr. Spofforth was thrown out of a handsome cab on Thursday, when returning home, and in the fall his wrist was severely injured, hence his inability to play in the cricket match…
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 Alexandrina, the waters into which the river Murray empties in South…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →AN accident of a very melancholy nature took place in the Queen's Park yesterday morning (says the COURIER of the 16th instant), It is customary to fire a vice-regal salute of seventeen guns on the Governor's…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Last Saturday afternoon a boy named Frederick Peter Warren, aged 10 years, went for a bathe in a waterhole between Newtown and Darlington, with another boy. Young Warren being unable to swim,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The city coroner this morning held as inquest it the Brecknock Hotel, Lower George-street, respecting the death of a young woman named Eliza Hogan, who was killed by being run over by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The City Coroner yesterday afternoon held an inquest at the Royal Albert Hotel, Darlington, on the body of a boy named Frederick Peter Warren, aged ten years, who was drowned in a water hole…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SAD fatal accident occurred in the presence of some hundreds of travellers at the Footscray railway station, between 8 and 9 o'clock on the morning of the 27th instant (says the Melbourne…
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