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873 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 44
AN adjourned meeting of the members of the Marine Board, Captain Hixson presiding, was held this morning at which the master of the Boomerang, steamer, was cited to appear to show cause why his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The new mail contractors, Messrs. Potter and Coles, who run the coach between Moss Vale and Nowra, met with a serious loss yesterday, through their horses bolting on the mountain road and falling…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New York, January 13.—The Chicago express train, south bound, leaving Albany at 2.40 o'clock this afternoon, with many members of the Legislature on board, was run into by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The City Coroner held an inquest at the Queensland Hotel, Kent-street, yesterday morning, on the body of a man named Patrick Kennedy, who died on Monday from injuries received through being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. J. P. Quinn met with an accident yesterday by the upsetting of his buggy. He was driving down into the river bed, when the horse swerved on the fence, completely overturning the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon the Hon. J. Docker, M.L.C., Chairman of Committees, had a narrow escape of being run over by a vehicle at the corner of King and George streets. The vehicle was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A painful accident occurred yesterday, at the North Junee railway station. A little girl named Donnelly, went to her mother and told he that she had heard one of the employes, who had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Having observed the reports of many cases of death from drowning and failure of the means employed to restore respiration, I am led to think that generally hope of success has been abandoned far too soon. In…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →On Monday evening last Mr. Hugh Holt, station master at Waratah, after indulging in a swim near Nobby's, Newcastle, heard a cry for help, and noticed a man named James French in the surf, swimming for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A seaman named Williams, belonging to the steamer Victoria, bound for Brisbane, was assisting another seaman in hooking on one of the ship's boats preparatory to hoisting it up to the davits, when by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, February 16.—The Queen's outrider was thrown from his horse near Buckingham Palace and injured; the horse bolted. Her Majesty, who was in her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About 6 o'clock List night in Oxford-street, a greengrocer's cart ran into a buggy, the ironwork of the latter sustaining some damage. The buggy had only just been purchased for £10 from a caringe…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A boat accident occurred on the Rip, yesterday by which three fishermen were drowned. A number of fishermen intended going outside of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fatal gun accident occurred on Trawalla station on Wednesday. Two young men, named Herbert Halse and John Abbott, miners, working in the New Discovery claim, went from Beaufort…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Queen's outrider was thrown from his horse, near Buckingham Palace, and injured. The horse bolted. Her Majesty, who was in her carriage, was greatly alarmed, but was not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A distressing occurrence happened at Point Lonsdale to-day, by which three fishermen lost their lives. At about noon a number of fishermen left Queenscliff, intending to go outside the Heads. Finding the sea…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three fishermen were drowned at Queenscliff today. Two men went out to endeavour to get through the "Rip," but a heavy sea being on at the time their boat capsized. Two others rowed…
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two young men named Shaw and O'Donnell were drowned in the river yesterday during church hours. They and five others were on the river in a flat-bottomed boat opposite the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another case of drowning occurred in the river yesterday forenoon. A boat containing seven persons capsized, throwing the whole of the occupants into the water. Five escaped, but the only two married men…
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