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The Euphrates, from Adelaide, has arrived at Falmouth. She reports having collided with a barque off Ushant. The Euphrates has received some damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A man named Greenwood, employed at Martin's hotel, Springwood, was chopping firewood this morning, when the axe caught a wire clothes-line, the result being that Greenwood was thrown violently on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday a most serious accident happened to a lad named John M'Gee Crawley. who resides with his parents at 118, Moorhead-street, Redfern. The boy's lather is a toy-maker, and, for the purpose of his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A serious accident happened yesterday to the Rev. John Ayling, minister of the Presbyterian Church, at Scone. He was returning from Gundy, and while driving a pair of horses down a hill his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another untoward accident has happaned to the A. S. N. Company's steamer Ranelagh. Whilst proceeding down the River Fitzroy yesterday afternoon, she struck on a rock and knockod a hole in her forehold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday evening Thomas Bourke, aged 64, bad a narrow escape of being killed by a tram in that part of Oxford-street opposite to the Cambridge Club Hotel. A man named Charles Harris, who resides in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A man named John West, while working at the Government Stores, Circular Quay, yesterday, fell from one of the top Storeys, and broke both his wrists, one of his thighs being also much injured. It…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yesterday a gang of men, said to number 40, and amongst whom were two labourers named Owen Gaynor and George Mackenzie, were engaged at work at a cutting on the Homebush to Waratah section of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A tram accident, by which an elderly man named Thomas Bourke narrowly eseaped being killed on the spot, occurred immediately opposite the Cambridge Club Hotel, in Oxfordstreet, last night. It appears that a friend of Bourke's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yesterday afternoon a message was received by Mr. Russell at the Sydney Hospital, from Messrs, R. and A. Amos, contiuotors for the Newcastle line from Ryde to the Hawkesbury, stating that a blasting…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A man named John West was admitted into the hospital yesterday suffering severely from shock. Upon examination it was found that both his wrists were broken, and that his left thigh was much contused. It appears that he was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yesterday morning a storeman employed at the Government stores in Elizabeth-street sustained severe injuries from a fall. It appears that he was standing on a sort of ledge or shelf connected…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thomas Bourke, aged 64, residing at Brisbane-street, off Oxford-street, was taken to the hospital by Charles Harris, 78 Brisbane-street, who stated that he had crossed over Oxford-street about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The city coroner, Mr. H. Shiell, J.P., and a jury, are investigating the circumstances attending the deat h of the man George Mackenzie, who received each injuries while engaged in blasting on the new railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A serious accident took place on Tuesday at the Hunter River waterworks to a young man named Thomas Burke. He was driving a dobbin for the removal of earth. This dobbin came in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robert Charles Davidson, a young man of 21, in the employ of Mr Thos. Boyd, butcher, of 35 Erskine-street, met with an accident yesterday under very peculiar circumstances. He was on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A young man named Randall, who was employed as an assistant guard on the railway, was killed accidentally at Glenbrook yesterday. Another guard, named Gregory, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was held yesterday by Mr H. S hiell J.P., City Coroner, into the circumstances attending the death of the man George M'Kenzie, who received such injuries on Tuesday last, while…
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