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A terrible railway accident, has occurred in the vicinity of Blackburn, in Lancashire, where two trains came into collision. Five persons were killed on the spot, and 30 others were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Sunday morning, about 6 o'clock, the Dubbo Dispatch reports, a terrible accident occurred at No. 13 cutting, about 10 miles from Dubbo, on the line to Nyngan. Two men, named Thomas Johns…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN inquest was held to-day at the city coroner's office, as to the cause of death of the Hon. George Oakes, M.L.C., who died at the Infirmary from injuries received by being knocked down on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CONSIDERABLE gloom was cast over Parliamentary circles last night by the announcement that the Hon. George Oakes had been killed on the tramway line shortly after leaving his seat in the Upper House…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As the Millie steamer, of the North Shore Ferry Company, was leaving the wharf at half-past 5 last evening, a man in a boat pulled up near the bow of the steamer and tried to pass her. Seeing the danger…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the night of August 8 a dreadful murder and suicide were committed at Tamworth. A Chinese hawker shot at two Europeans, and killed one instantly. The other was dangerously wounded, the bullet entering near the left…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A lamentable tramway accident, resulting in the death of Mr. George Oakes, M.L.C., took place shortly after 6 o'clock last evening in Elizabeth-street, in front of the tramway office. From the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Intelligence has been received of the foundering of the barque Metaris, 244 tons, at sea in a heavy gale, on the 29th ultimo, when about [?]0 miles cast of Port Macquarie. The vessel left Sydney on the 6th ult.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another accident of a serious nature occurred on the tramway line this morning, and one which it is feared will have a fatal result. A man named Samuel Schumacker, a Swiss, who has been in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was held yesterday at the city coroner's office as to the cause of death of a young man named George Scand, a painter, who fell from a seaffold as he was at work at a new building at the corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inquest on the late Hon. George Oakes was resumed yesterday afternoon. William Evans, fireman in the Tramway Department, deposed that he drove motor No. 21, running between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A telegram taw been received from Kiama this morning stating that the steamer Civility, which left Kiama this morning for Sydney, returned to port, having collided with the steamer Illawarra a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OUR Parramatta correspondent informed us by wire last Friday of a collision which occurred at the Parramatta railway station Thursday night. As the 9.40 p.m. train left the station,and before it had crossed…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →New York, June 28.-Details of a terrible accident on the Morelos Railway, in Mexico, last Friday night, have been received. The train, drawn by two locomotives, and carrying a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Samuel Schumacker, who was takes to the Infirmary suffering from the effect of injuries received by being knocked down by a Waverley tramway motor yesterday morning, died in one of the wards…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another fatal tramway accident has to be recorded, the victim being a man named Samuel Schumacher, n native of Switzerland. Deceased, who was employed by Mr. S. Smith, landlord of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CONSIDERABLE gloom was cast over Parliamentary circles on Wednesday evening by the announcement that the Hon. George Oakes had been killed on the tramway line shortly after…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A serious collision took place early this morning, south of Point Bass, between the steamers Illawarra and Civility. The paddle-wheel steamer Illawarra was so damaged that she became…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At twenty-five minutes to 6 o'clock this morning the Civility (s.), with 200 tons blue metal from Kiama, ran into the Illawarra (s.), The collision took place between the Basin and Bumbo Point, about a quarier of a milw from the former. Both captains…
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