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When the Yatala tug reached the Chimborazo at at half-past ll last night, the lightering of the cargo was undertaken with vigour by a gang of thirty men. The topsails were kept set, and fhe anchor carried out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An accident of an unusual nature occurred on the railway line yesterday between Newtown and Stanmore stations. The train leaving Sydney at 5.5 p.m. for Ashfield passed a train coming from Petersham at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About 12 o'clock to-day a fatal accident occurred to a labourer named Henry Palmer. Whilst at work at Smith's Wharf, ho fell a distance of 40ft on to his head, and died a few minutes afterwards, his skull…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In reference to the somewhat extraordinary accident on the Parramatta railway, mentioned in our issue of yesterday, it would seem that among the passengers by the 5.5 train from Sydney were the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terribly sudden and fatal accident occurred on Smith's wharf yesterday morning, by which a man named Henry Palmer lost his life. He was at work on a new building in course of erection…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fearful disaster occurred at Spezzia on November 21. The steamer Ortigia, belonging to the Florio Company, came info collision with the French Messageries boat Uncle Joseph, coming…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An inquest .was held yesterday at the Observer Tavern, before the acting Coroner, Mr. W. T. Pinhey, on the body of a man named Henry Palmer, a labourer, 44 years of age, a native of New…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was held at the Ball and Month Hotel, Cumberland-street, this morning, on the body of a child named Cecil M'Glyn, two years of age, who had been ran over yesterday by a gingerbeer cart, driven…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, January 7.—A disastrous steamship collision has occurred off Cape Roca [?]; resulting in the loss of 50 lives…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A fearful shipping disaster occurred at Spezzia on Of November 24. The steamer Ortigia, belonging to the Florio Company, came into collision with, the French Messageries boat, Oncle Joseph,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On the evening of the 6th instant Mr. Francis Joseph Morgan, grocer, of Pitt-street, was thrown from a horse and killed instantaneously. He had been out during the day attending to his business, and was returning home when the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Early on Wednesday morning a serious fire occurred on the premises of M. A. Bechet, general merchant and importer, next door to the Daily Telegraph office, corner of York and Barrack streets. The flames…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The P.M.S.S. City of New York, Captain W. B. Seabury, sailed from San Francisco December 21. and discharged pilot at 4.5 p.m. Had heavy gales from the S. and S.W. for five days. December 24,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fatal boat accident took place at the wreck of the Hereford yesterday morning. On the previous evening 28 lumpers and two constables were on board, and owing to the heavy sea…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A boy, named John Newell, aged 11, son of Mr. Newell, commission agent in Sussex-street, fell from a cart yesterday afternoon and broke his arm. He was taken home by his father, end a surgeon, sent for, who sot the fracture, and the boy is bow im-proving…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fearful shipping disaster occurred at Spezzia on November 24. The steamer Ortigia, belonging to the Florio Company, came into collision with the French Messageries boat, Oncle Joseph,…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →The Geelong correspondent of the Argus says:--A very serious and painful accident occurred near the wreck of the ship Hereford, at Swampy Creek, about 8 a.m. on Tuesday. On Monday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fatal accident attended a man named James Allen, one of the crew of the Orient Co.'s steamer Chimborazo on Saturday afternoon. A number of the men belonging to the vessel went is the water for a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Between 3 and 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, several of the servants belonging to the steamer Chimborazo, then lying in the dock at Cockatoo Island, went into the water near the dock for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A young man named James Kelso, residing at Beaufort-street, Surry Hills, had a very narrow escape from drowning in the harbour yesterday morning. It seems that Kelso was fishing off the end…
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