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Near midnight on Wednesday a man named Jeremiah Mullane, of Pilliga, near Wee Win, a grazier, fell overboard from the steamship Maitland, while on her voyage from Sydney to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday evening, a little after 8 o'clock, Constables Nelson and Young, of the Water Police, were cruising round Wooloomooloo Bay, when their attention was attracted by loud cries proceeding from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The only son of Mr. Robert Sadlier, of Moorbank, 11 years of age, was drowned this morning on the flat in front of Moorbank House. The eldest sister of the boy, in attempting to save…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Thursday afternoon Frank Brown, the pedestrian, accompanied by Mr. Howe, landlord of the Wynyard Hotel in Erskine-street, took a sailing boat for a cruise round the harbour. Off Goat Island a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Monday night about 9 o'clock the body of a man horribly mutilated was found on the railway up-track a little the other side of Burwood. The remains were brought to town by the special…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →IN reference to the accident to Roland G[?]iffin Burgin, third son of Mr. H. W. Burgin, Church street (briefly referred to in our last) we learn that tho unfortunate young man, who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At a few minutes before 6 o'clock on Monday evening an elderly woman named Margaret M'Intyre, who resides at Alexandria, met with a serions accident on the tram line. She got on the line in the way of an…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →AN accident of a shocking nature happened on Monday evening on the suburban line near Burwood, where a man named Timothy Donnelly was run over and cut to pieces by a passenger train. The body, in…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →The only son of Mr. Robert Sadler, of Moorbank, 11 years of age, was drowned this morning on the flat in front of Moorbank House. The eldest sister of the boy, in attempting to save…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The heaviest flood ever known here has occurred. The flood was most severe at Dapto and Albion Park. The mailman, in attempting to cross Duckholes with horse and coach, on Saturday afternoon, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the continuance of the storm on Friday night an accident of a rather serious nature occurred at Paddington. A stone wall, 22ft high, erected on the premises of Mr. Jions, Oatley-street and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At a meeting of the Marine Board yesterday an inquiry was held into the collision between the steamers Nautilus and Utility, which took place in Darling Harbour on the 2nd instant,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Early on December 21, while a butch of about 26 miners were being raised out of a coal pit near Dortmund, the rope broke, and the cage containing the workmen fell to the bottom of the shaft—a distance of 1800 feet. All were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Saturday last a sad case of drowsing occurred at George’s River, near Liverpool, during the prevalence of the severe storm which swept over Cumberland. The victim was a son…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The dead body of a young man named John Cottington was found this morning near the railway line, not far from Gillespie's tannery, where he lived, being employed there. It is thought the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday a fireman belonging to the steam launch Eclipse, whilst endeavouring to get on board that vessel in Darling Harbour, fell into the water and was drowned before assistance could be rendered to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A lamentable event occurred at Coogee Bay this morning, by which two amiable young ladies, daughters of a well-known citizen, lost their lives. Early in the morning a party of young ladies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When the men employed at Messrs. Hawkes and Co.'s new building, at the corner of Castlereagh and Hunter streets, went to work this morning, a man known by the sobriquet "King Billy" was found dead…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About noon to-day a young man named Chadwick, in the employ of Mr. J. Turner, plumber, of Market-street, lost his balance and fell from the first floor of the building of his employer and received such…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The body of the elder Miss Viles, who with her sister, Miss Ida Viles, was drowned at Coogee early yesterday morning, was recovered shortly before 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It was observed…
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