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A TERRIBLE bush fire broke out on Thursday, 6th instant (says the Annus), about eight miles south of Colac, and swept down with groat rapidity upon the township. A large number of Biuall selectors…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—A man named Woods, a boot salesman, was cut to pieces last night on the Sandridge railway line. He is supposed to have got drunk and laid down on the line…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A frightful mining accident occurred at Sandhurst on the 14th instant, says the TELEGRAPH, resulting in the death of an old and respected resident of this city. Mr. David Montgomery, formerly mining manager…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WAGGA, Monday.—It has been reported to the police that a man named Don Crawley was drowned in the Murrumbidgee, near Wantabadgery, whilst bathing on Sunday. The body has not yet been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since our last summary was published th[?]lony has suffered a raid from a gang of Victorian bushrangers. This gang is four in number, and consists of two brothers named Kelly and two men named respectively Byrne and Hart…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →COOKTOWN, Wednesday.—A daughter of Mr. John Clunes was burnt to death yesterday. She was pouring some kerosene on to a fire to make it burn up, when the tin holding it exploded, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The elderly man, Joseph Goodfellow, who was knocked down, run over, and seriously injured about 8 o'clock last Monday night, in Parramata-street, by a Darlington waggonette, died in the Infirmary this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Coroner, this morning, held an inquest at his office respecting the death of an old man named Thomas Goodfellow, aged about sixty years, who, when crossing the road in George-street West, near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A married woman, named Ann Haley, met with a very painful an peculiar accident in the George-street markets yesterday afternoon. The poor woman was seated at a corner of the wing of the fruit market…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday afternoon one of the Company's railway omnibuses, No. 106, came to grief at the corner of Park and George streets. The vehicle was proceeding at a fast pace to the railway station with a full…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LATE[?] PARTICULARS. AUCKLAND, S[?]ay.—Twelve more dead bodies have been [?]overed, and some others are likely to be obtained. Most of the men were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The City Coroner, on Thursday, held an inquest at his office respecting the death of an old man named Thomas Goodfellow, aged about sixty years, who, when crossing the road in George-street west, near…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A terrible accident, which had a fatal termination, befel a young man named Martin Out, of Bang Bang, on Saturday last (says the BURRANGONG ARGUS of February 26). Deceased, who usually resided with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A railway accident occurred shortly before 10 o'clock yesterday morning, near the Petersham railway station, by which one of the permanent way men named John York, aged 30 years, met with his death…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—A fatal accident occurred at the Wallsend Colliery this morning, through a fall of coal. Three miners wore missing, and on search being made one man was brought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Adelaide, Thursday.—A prisoner named Shepperd, at Dry Creek Labour Prison, was killed on the railway on Tuesday.—The engine on the Millicent line passed over a man named Fogerty,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Friday.—The Melbourne Company's, new steamer Keilawarra is aground on a sandbank in the Fitzroy River, Dear Rockhampton. She will get off at the first high tide…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Coroner this morning held an inquest at his office on the body of John Ellis York, a labourer on the railway, aged 29 yean, who, while working on the line near Petersham railway station last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Intelligence reached Newcastle to-day, of a serious colliery accident at Wallsend. A portion of the old workings situated under the hill, behind the colliery, fell in suddenly this morning. On visiting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CASINO, Friday Mrs. John Gray, a very old resident A the district, was drowned in the river yesterday. She was washing domes by the river bank in the morning; on being called to dinner,…
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