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THE City Coroner (Mr. Henry Sh[?]ll. J.P.) co[?] an inquest last Wednesday week, at his office, Ryde Park, respecting the circumstances attending the death of Mrs. Sarah Brown, wife of Mr. David Brown, commission agent,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The flood waters are reaching here, and the water is within a few feet of the banks. The railway temporary bridge has shifted slightly, through a quantity of timber coming against it,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About a quarter-past 12 o'clock last night, Mr. David. Moore, the driver of the No. 59 engine of the up-train from Homebush, which arrived in Sydney at 11.35 p.m., reported that he had found blood on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Coroner held an inquest on Wednesday at the Bellevue Hotel, Redfern-street, Redfern, respecting the death of a child named John Robertson, aged 2 years and 7 months, who accidentally fell into a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →All the witnesses who gave evidence on the inquest, respecting the collison between the Barrabool and the Bonnie Dundee, were bound ever this morning to appear at the Central Criminal Court on May 4…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, March 20.—A telegram from the West Indies reports the sinking of the Haytian steamer Michee, after a collision with the steamer Bolivia. Sixty people were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE fatal collision between the screw steamships Barrabool and Bonnie Dundee, which took place a little to the southward of Newcastle, on the llth instant, has continued to form a leading matter of…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The inquest on the body of Sarah Brown, one of the victims to the collision between the Bonnie Dundee and Barrabool, was concluded yesterday, the jury finding a verdict of manslaughter against the captain and mate of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A telegram from the West Indies reports the sinking of the Haytian steamer Michee, after a collision with the steamer Bolivia. Sixty people were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ANOTHER tale of sadness comes from the sea. On the evening of Monday, March 10, these steamers came into collision, some ten miles off the "Nobbies," Newcastle. It would seem, says the Herald, that the Barrabool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Tucker, known as Benjamin Tucker, an able seaman on board the steamer Barrabool, was examined by the coroner, and deposed that last Monday week he left Newcastle for Sydney. He went to the wheel about ten minutes or a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE City Coroner, thiS morning, held an inquest at the Brecknock Hotel, Lower George-street, respecting the death of a man named Henry Middleton, who was killed on the railway, between Everleigh and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A miner at the Lambton colliery met with an accident this morning through a fail of coal. His leg was broken and severely crushed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is with feelings of the deepest regret (says the Moruya Liberal of the 12th instant) that we have to chronicle an accident which resulted in the death of William May, the second engineer of the John Penn,…
Continued on Trove, page 470 →SIR,—I saw in the last Saturday’s Mercury that you reported an accident what caused the death of Mr. Patrick Malony; where you say that “he was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT is with feelings of the deepest regret (says the MORUYA LIBERAL of the 12th instant) that we have to chronicle an accident which resulted in the death of William May, the second engineer of the John Penn…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →The adjourned inquest on the body of George Oughten, who was killed in the Wallsend B Pit on the 27th February last, was resumed on Saturday, at the Court-house, Plattsburg, before the coroner…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our correspondent writes :—Shortly after 4 o'clock this (Tuesday) morning, during a dense fog, which was materially added to by the smoke from the smelting works at Port Waratah, the Government steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Julia Percy, while going down the Yarra River, yesterday afternoon, collided with the steamer Dawn, from Portland. The Dawn took a sheer across the river, and although the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A serious collision occurred in the harbour early this morning during a dense fog. The government steamer Ajax ran into the iron ship Duart Bay, lying in the Horsehoe…
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