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873 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 44
At about 9 o'clock this morning an accident happened in George-street, between Hunter and Bridge streets. A little boy named Bernard Towers and his sister were crossing the street on their way to school,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The youngest son of Mr. Turnbull, the manager of Borehole colliery, was pitched from his pony on to his head near the residence of Mr. Lockhead, J.P., and received concussion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Cricker (28), acting as clerk to Mr. John Tait, and residing at 49 Bathurst street, was conveyed to the hospital at half-past 10 o'clock on Saturday night by Constable Dunlop, of No. 1…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steam-tug Alice, from Newcastle, with a, number of excursionists, struck on the Bondy Carr Rocks, near Amble, thirty miles south of Berwick, on June 39, and several passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New York, June 29.—The express train from Long Branch to New York, consisting of one Pullman car, one smoking carriage, and four ordinary passenger carriages, ran off line while crossing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—On Saturday an accident happened opposite the public school at Waverley, where there is a curve. At this curve a child was killed, two men were [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An accident of a serious nature happened this morning at Oxley's brickyards, Marrickville. A young man named Charles Rowe, an engineer, who resides at Cook's River-road, was engaged attending…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. John. Payne Kidner, the public schoolmaster at Bryan's Gap, near Tenterfield, was thrown from his horse and killed on Tuesday night. His body was found with the neck broken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible railway accident happened this morning at Woodville station on the Port Adelaide line, by which a lad named Hamphris, 11 years old, was killed. The whole train passed over the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →After a rest of three or four days without an accident, the Sydney tramway system has again asserted its right to be considered one of the most scientific engines of destruction to peaceful life and limb—at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday morning a train collision, involving serious injury to several passengers, though happily without any casualty likely so far as is known to result in loss of life, occurred at the Elizabeth and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →About 9 o'clock yesterday morning, a collision, which fortunately did not result in loss of life, but nevertheless caused injuries to several persons, occurred on the tram line, at the corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On the arrival of the steamer Morpeth, from Sydney, this morning, information was given to the police of a sad case of drowning which had occurred to one of her saloon passengers during…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THIS morning John Sheedy, an engine-driver, employed on the tram-lines by the Government, was brought up in custody, charged that he being the driver of a motor, did so carelessly and negligently…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,--Though our tram system may not be free from faults, it is not fair its officials should be continually blamed, as they are, unwarrantably. Every blander of a careless or drunken traveller is thrown…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Thomas Warner, a resident of the district for 50 years, lest Queanbeyan on Saturday evening for the Murrumbidgee, with his bullock-dray laden with four, and on clearing town a few…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A very serious accident happened early this morning in Goorge-street, to a groem named Joseph Mansfeld. One of the employes of the firm of paste and Harcourt, grocers, upon entering their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An accident of serious nature happened this morning in Forbes-street, Wooiloomooloo, at a place where some now buildings are in course of erection. One of the labourers, named William Henry Walker,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Kay correspondent of the Melbourne "Argus" telegraphed the following particulars of a painful assident on Thursday:—" A serious assident [?]urret on Thursday evening on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, August 15.—The death is announced of Professor William Stanley Jevons, M.A., F.R.S., Examiner in Logic and Mental and Moral Philosophy the University of London…
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