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SIR,—It should be publicly known that very recently an order was issued by the railway authorities that all trains are to be ran, using only one centre coupling chain, the other chain hanging down useless. There…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sad accident happened yesterday afternoon in the Yarra near Church-street, Richmond. Miss Anna Moule, daughter of a resident of Richmond, and a married sister, were walking along the bank…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs. W. Howard Smith and Sons' steamer Moreton, which left Townsville last night, struck on the Salamander Reef about morning, and started the plates in the bilge forward. The steamer returned to port…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Between 5 and 6 o'clock, yesterday afternoon, a married woman named Mesnan, a new arrival in the [?] met with a nasty accident in Macquarie street south. It appears that with her husband and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mrs Seaton, wife of Mr Robert Seaton, of Glover-street, Emerald Hill, fell down in a fit today at a fireplace, and her clothes caught fire. Before the flames were extinguished Mrs Seaton…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday, a young a man named John Woller, a carpenter, fell from is building in course of erection at Field of Mars, and sustained serious internal injury, and it is believed, a fracture of the spine, The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A curious and ludicrous accident, which caused some destruction of property, and narrowly escaped being attended with very serious, if not fatal, consequences to human life, occurred on the tram line this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday a young men named John Albury, 19 years of ago, employed at the Globe Island Abattoirs, went-out in a boat along with three other youths named William Easer. Frank Johnston, and Matthew…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A colonial inquiry was held by Mr Candler at the morgue on Wednesday (says the Melbourne World), touching the death of Hannah Monle, 37 years of age, who was drowned in the Yarra on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FURTHER particulars regarding the fatal railway accident, a sketch of which was reported in our last issue are to hand. The principal events in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. W. Howard Smith and Sons' steamer Moreton, which left Townsville last night, struck on the Salamander Reef about morning, and started the plates in the bilge forward. The steamer returned to port…
Continued on Trove, page 975 →At a quarter-past 10 o'clock on the 16th instant a serious railway accident, resulting in the death of a fireman, the injury of another, and the destruction of several goods tracks loaded with live stock, occurred immediately below…
Continued on Trove, page 995 →A fatal accident took place in Johnson's Bay yesterday morning. Four of the employees at the Glebe Island abattoirs were putting out an anchor, when their boat suddenly capsized, throwing them…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A startlingly narrow escape from a serious railway accident happened on Monday (says the Ballarat Courier), after the 3.25 passenger train from Ballarat to Melbourne had left. The train…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WHAT appears from a description in the "Southland News" to he a valuable invention has been on view recently at Invercargill, N.Z. It is a vehicle whick has been made to the order of certain miners…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Yesterday a man named William Wilton, while working at a circular saw at the Atherston mills, Mount Headlow, slipped and fell under the saw. One of his lees was nearly cut off, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday afternoon Mr. Baron B. Cohen, landlord of the Cambridge Hotel, Parkes, was found on the fire in his room, terribly burned about the head and body. It is believed that he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday a man named Wm. M'Donald while going up a travelling crane at some new building in course of erection in Philiip-street, suddenly fell to the ground. At the hospital it was found that he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A man named John Richardson, employed at section 10 of the Nepean waterworks, met with a serious accident on Saturday. He was engaged in blasting operations, and thinking one of the charges had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An inquest was held on Friday at noon at J. Owen's New Station Hotel, Blane-street, Newcastle, on the body of Thomas Moore, who died on the previous day from injuries received in riding Mileta in the Shorts Handicap. The…
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