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The City Coroner held an inquest at the Rising Sun Hotel, Canterbury on Saturday as to the cause of death of a man named Donald Kennedy. The evidence showed that deceased who was 61 years of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Lady Bowen ran a ground above Hamilton yesterday afternoon and cracked one plate forward. She returned to town this morning but will resume her passage this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An accident happened to the guard of a Randwick car while at Moore Park yesterday. John Fountain was collecting tickets on the top of the car, when in consequence of there being a great number of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At 9 o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Shiell, J.P., City Coroner, resumed, at the Observer Tavern, George-street, the inquest on the body of the youth Horace Robertson, drowned on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A telegram was received by the Marine Board yesterday afternoon announcing that the schooner Experiment capsized at sea off the Althorpes at 7 a.m. yesterday, and afterwards foundered,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fatal accident occurred on board the Orient Company's steamship Potosi while she was discharging cargo yesterday, resulting in the death of Mrs. W. M. Newton, a second-class passenger,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A lamentable and fatal accident occurred on Saturday night. Whilst Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Walsh were approaching the town in a buggy Mrs. Walsh was thrown out violently and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Alta California of April 9 contains the following arcount of the accident to the P. M. S. S. City of Mew York:- At 10 minutes before [?] o'clock last night the joyful…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An accident, attended by fatal results, happened early yesterday morning at the eastern end of Circular Quay. At about 9 o'clock the ketch Sea Foam, which had arrived during the night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Marine Board inquiry, re the grounding of the S.S. Lady Bowen, consider Captain Cottier in fault in leaving the bridge, and that the quartermaster had no right to give the wheel up to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A most extraordinary collision has just occurred in the English Channel. There was neither fog, nor darkness, nor blinding enow, nor wind to disturb a vessel's course or baffle the resources and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The danger of carrying loaded fir arms was exemplified yesterday in the case of a young man named Mark Coates, who is in the employment of Captain Taunton. Springfield, Waverley, and who met with a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We learn from the New Zealand papers that an accident of the most alarming character, resulting in the injury of 12 persons, occurred at half-past 11 o'clock at night on the Reslyn tramway on the April…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A very distressing circumstance occurred yesterday morning, about half-past 10 o'clock, at the residence of Mr. Frank B. Treatt, chief clerk of the Immigration office, who resides at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We learn from Mr. Lessells, of Orange, who returned to Sydney to-day by the steamer Tasman, that a deplorable mishap occurred shortly after the steamer left Hobart oe Saturday last. A few minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A dreadful occurrence, causing the death of two little children, which has caused a most painful sensation throughout North Willoughby, happened there on Sunday morning last at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The City Coroner (Mr. H. Shiell, J.P) held an inquest yesterday at Ashley, North Willoughby, aa to the cause of death of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Treatt's two children, Bernard and Helena, aged three years…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An attempt was made on May 6 to set fire to the house occupied by Mr. Thomas Bickerdike, a builder, residing in Harrington-street, Marrickville. He was awakened at half-past 8 o'clock by hearing a pane of glass being broken…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Henry Charles Went, charged with shooting William Hither at Honeysuckle Point station on the 5th April, has been committed for trial at the Maitland Circuit Court on the 20th October…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Bacchantes rudder will be unshipped tomorrow. If the detention should be extended, it is probable that the Rev. Mr. Dalton and the Royal Princes will go on to Adelaide by the…
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