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ON Monday night some passengers by a Bourke-stree't omnibus had a marvellously narrow escape with their lives owing to an accident, the cause of which seems to require some explanation, The facts are as…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Yesterday the ferry steamer Nellie struck near the Market Wharf upon sunken wreckage. Several holes were driven in the bottom of the steamer. The passengers were landed safely, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fredk. Tyndall, aged, 23, a shunter on the Government Railways, was brought to the hospital by H. Tiffin, porter, on Thursday, suffering from a fracture of the left collar bane. He was engaged in his duties…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Between 3 and 4 o'clock, on Thursday afternoon, a horse attached to a cab driven by a man named Ross took fright at a tram motor at the junction of Market and Elizabeth streets, bolted along the latter street…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In reference to the necessity for preventing mining accidents as far as possible, Mr. Newman, manager of the New Reform Company, at Lucknow, writes as follows:— "I have made what is considered one of the best…
Continued on Trove, page 301 →LONDON, February 17.—The Admiralty Court has given its decision in connection with the collision that occurred in August last between the Evelyn and the Ghazee. The court decides that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The White Star liner Celtic, bound from New York to Liverpool, broke ber shaft, and had to finish the voyage under sail, arriving safely. The Germanic, also White Star liner, took the place of the Celtic from Liverpool to New…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An accident of a serious nature occurred on Saturday afternoon to Ah. Loy, the Chinaman who was the prosecutor in the late assault case at Parramatta. He went by the mail train from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A boy named Edward Jackson was admitted into the Sydney Hospital on Saturday suffering from a crushed foot. The injury was received through the boy being knocked down and run over by a cub in Pitt-street. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Captain Webber reports that the White Star Liner Critic, bound from New York to Liverpool, broke her shaft, and had to finish the voyage under sail, arriving safely. The Germanic, also a White Star…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Admiralty Court has just decided in the matter of the collision between the Evelyn and the Ghazee. The chief blame of the disaster is attributed to the Ghazee…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A woman named Harriet Cleaver was struck dead by lightning yesterday at Evans Creek, near Stoney Pinch. She had just covered up a sewing machine, and had one of the needles in her hands,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The effects of drink were forcibly shown yesterday by two young men, who, in different parts of the town, exhibited very similar behaviour, and met with similar self-punishment. In one case, George Whitmore, a ston[?]cutter, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BATHURST, Monday.--Yesterday an inquest was held on the body of John Hubeck. Deceased was returning from Kirk's auction sale, on horseback. The horse commenced to gallop. Hubeck being the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A branch of the above company has been established in this colony. Its objects are to grant indemnity to the public from accidents of ail descriptions ; and it is proposed to include the scheme of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The "Glen Innes Guardian" of the 15th instant reports that a serious couch accident happened on Tuesday evening. The Glen Innes-Armidale couch left the post-office at the usual…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Thomas Moore, of Cooba, Clarendon, fell down a well shaft yesterday and broke his neck. The coroner has gone to the place to hold an inquiry. The deceased was working at the bottom of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As stated in our report of the yacht race that took place on Saturday afternoon, a collision took place between the above named yachts, the accident occurring as follows :--When coming down for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About noon yesterday a woman named Mary Barran fell or jumped—it is not dear which—overboard from the Woolloomooloo Wharf. A man named George William Heston, of 37, Dowling-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Samuel Benson, 32 years of age, labourer, employed at the Redfern station, while engaged in connecting the new interlocking gear, met with an accident yesterday. He was standing…
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