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Robert Laing, a sailor on board the Garonne, was engaged on Wednesday mooring that vessel at the Market Wharf when, the ship having come suddenly astern, he was jammed between the stern and a pile…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A boy named John O'Halloran, residing at 13, Kensington-street, was taken to the Hospital, Wednesday, suffering from injuries sustained in Glasson's Coach Works, Harris-street. It appears that while…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A young man named Alexander Chalmers, carpenter, residing in Leichhardt, was taken to the hospital this morning suffering from injuries accidently received. It appears that he was working…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A son of Mr E, L. Bruce, the Government Surveyor at Sale, aged 9, while out shooting with a companion named Gooch, aged 13, on Wednesday, was accidentally…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—In reply to your correspondent under the above heading, I wish to say that if a practical man (as he says he is) he ought to know that the term used by him, viz., the warping of the posts, is scarcely applicable in this case…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GOULBURN, Thursday.--Moodie, the drive of the train which was wrecked at Cootamundra, is making raid progress. One leg is nearly well, He is still in hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BATHURST, Thursday.--Mrs Benjamin Lee, wife of the police magistrate, met with a shocking accident yesterday. She was in the act of hanging some meet, and was standing on a chair,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Shiell held an inquest yesterday afternoon, at the White Hart Hotel, Lower George-street, on the body of a man named Edward Matthews, a cook on board the steamer Coomerang, lying at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamer Glenoebil arrived on Sunday afternoon, having left London on december 21. On January 20, after having left the Cape of Good Hope, the steamer ran into the whaler…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A labourer named Louis Ehmke, a German, 29 years of age, and residing at 413, Harris-street, Pyrmont, was admitted into the Sydney Hospital on Friday, Buffering from injuries received accidentally…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Friday, February 13, the Acting-Coroner. Mr. W. T. Pinbey, J.P., resumed the inquiry at the District Court into the circumstances connected with the death of William Alfred Howell, who died in the Sydney Hospital on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 413 →A mishap occurred on one of the suburban lines on Saturday. As the train was passing the Redmyre platform shortly after 7 a.m. an automatic brake on one of the second-class carriages got out of gear…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →I had just taken a turn in company with Doctor Noirot, through the vast gardens that surrounded his hospital, and was advancing with him toward the entrance of his own special dwelling. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →While Mr. J. C. Weichardt, lessee of the British Hotel, Clunes, was driving in a cart on Friday, he turned in his seat to whip off some boys who were hanging on. He overbalanced himself and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--Yesterday on the arrival of the steamer Morpeth, from Sydney, it was reported to Inspector Thorpe that mounted trooper Brierly, of Tamworth, who had been down on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 1 o'clock yesterday morning a man named Thomas Sheedon, 60 years old, residing at Sutherland-street, Paddington, fell down stairs and broke his neck. His daughter heard a noise, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An unfortunate collision occurred on Saturday afternoon off the lightship at the Sow and Pigs, between the yachts Bed Gruntlet and Orpheus. The Orpheus was coming home from Middle Harbour before the wind. wind the Red…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At 6 a.m. yesterday, a man named Thomas Scott, a baker by trade, recently in the employ of Mr G. Darby, of Manly, was drowned on the Ocean Beach while bathing. Scott went in to swim at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A collision occurred on Sunday afternoon off the Sow and Pigs Lightship between the schooner yacht Red Gauntlet belonging to Messrs C. and E. .Millar, of Melbourne, and the Sydney owned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The dead body of a girl named Annie Jowett, 11 years of age, daughter of Edward Jowett, of Hanover-street, Balmain, was found in a well in her father's back yard on Saturday. The child…
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