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The official inquiry into the Little River collision by Judge Molesworth, jun., and Messrs. Couche and Blythe, was opened to-day. The evidence which was taken to-day disclosed no fresh facts, except that Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →An accident of a serious nature happened to Mrs, Roberts, wife of the superintendent of tramways, on Thursday evening. As that lady was in the act of alighting from a Forest Lodge tram at Bridge-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An inquest was held at the Prince Alfred Hospital on Friday morning, upon the body of the man, Matthew Price, who received fatal injuries while engaged in blasting operations at St. Peters. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A shocking accident occurred last evening to Cobb and Cobb coach, coming from Mornington to Frankston. The hones shied newt Frankston, and the conveyance was upset. Miss Coates, daughter of the late Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 760 →Two accidents happened to the coach from Deniliquin to Balranald last night. The first one was near Pretty Pine, where the coach collided with a stump, breaking the pole, and throwing out the driver, who was rendered insensible for…
Continued on Trove, page 741 →The Railway Commissioners have had reported to them the narrow escape of a collision between two heavily laden passenger trains at Glenferrie station on Good Friday afternoon. John M'Namarra, driver of…
Continued on Trove, page 735 →A sad accident occurred near Wafaon'e Bay, at about noon yesterday. A widow named Elizabeth Grimes, 35 yean of age, and a resident of Queen-street, Woollahra, left her home in the morning in company with a Mrs. Peters, and…
Continued on Trove, page 751 →An accident of a shocking character occurred on the railway line yesterday afternoon, between 2 and 3 o'clock. It appears that a train had just started from the Homebush station when a Frenchman named Theodore Le Barbe…
Continued on Trove, page 751 →ON Wednesday evening last, about 7 o’clock, It was circulated about town that a man had been killed at the Marsden-street railway bridge. As the subjoined particulars, elicited…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ON Tuesday afternoon a fatal accident occurred to a Frenchman, named Theodore Lo Barbe, at the Homebush railway station. It appoarp that a train was just starting, when Le Barbe attempted to ant or one…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mr Shiell, the City Coroner, held an inquest, on Saturday, at the White Hart Hotel, on the body of the man Richard Abbott, who was found drawee at Circular Quay, on the previous day. Deceased was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An accident, which has proved fatal, occured on Saturday afternoon in Lansell's No. 2 Mine, on the New Chum Reef, Sandhurst, to a married man named James Coad. While he was assisting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The official inquiry by Judge Hickman Molesworth and Messrs. Blyth and Conche into the Little River railway accident was concluded on Saturday, so far as taking evidence was concerned. The principal witness…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A serious accident happened in Forbes on Saturday evening to Mr. Adshead, commercial traveller for Messrs. John Gray and Co. He was driving a four-horse coach from Parkes to Forbes,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday afternoon a man named Vincent Martin was ran over by an engine at Redfern station. He sustained a compound fracture of the left leg, attended with, severe laceration. He was taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mrs. M'Donald wife of a settler in Blair Hill near Glen Innes, accidentally shot her child. [?] was handling a revolver, and not knowing that [?] was loaded, she touched the trigger, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are glad, to learn that Mr. H. Badgery is rapidly recovering from the accident that betel him on Thursday last, and by means of which his arm was broken. The mishap occurred in a most peculiar…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The engine of the mail train broke down at Bomen station. A request had to be sent to Junee for another locomotive, which could not be supplied from Wagga. The accident delayed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- Two lads named Williamson and M'Cullum, had a narrow escape from drowning yesterday afternoon. They had gone fishing outside Nobby's, in a leaky flat-bottomed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The city coroner initiated the inquiry at the South Sydney morgue on Friday afternoon, the 18th instant, into the circumstances attending the death of the man Alexander Agar, or Williams, who died on that morning from the…
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