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In the Assembly last night, Mr. SYDNEY SMITH moved the adjournment of the House, in order to attract notice to certain circumstances that had occurred recently, which had caused the engineers on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A serious tram accident happened on Sunday afternoon in the neighbourhood of Forbes street. N. w. town. A tram, while on its way from Newtown to Sydney, at about 3 p.m., collided with a cart in which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yesterday evening a man named John Ryan, 35 years old, a labourer, residing at 21 Charlotte peace, was endeavouring to make his way along the street while in a state of intoxication. He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A strange and fatal accident happened yesterday. About 5.30 p m. Captain Thomas Sutton, of the ship "Jngleside," Michael Boyce, the mate, and another person saw a man fail from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A man named Globe, while washing his hands in Polar Creek, near Kempsey, on Wednesday, stepped off a log into the creek and was drowned. It is supposed that his head struck against the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An inquest was hold in the Botany View Hotel, King street, Newtown, on Saturday by the city cononer on the body of a child named James Cook, four and a half years of age a son of Joseph Cook…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →James Cunningham, a seaman belonging to the ship IUaroo, was conveyed to the Sydney Hospital an Saturday, suffering from an injury sustained at sea. It appears that a few days ago, while he was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A labourer named William Welsh, 24, of 83 Elizabeth street, met with an accident yesterday afternoon, by falling a distance of 10 feet from a building in course of erection in Clarence-street…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--The ship Riverswood, from Glasgow, Captain Brocklebans, arrived here to-day dismasted, and in a terribly dismantled state. The accident occurred on February 23 last,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday the dead body of an infant about two days ago, was found floating in the water at Lavender Bay. It was promptly taken out of the water and conveyed to the morgue, Circular Quay,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yesterday afternoon two men were fishing--one, Edward Tucker, at a place known as the Green Rock, Maourbra Bay, and the other, Waller James, some iitte distance away. The latter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A somewhat serious accident happened in George-street about noon on Tuesday. Three men were working en a scaffolding near Bridge-street, when it suddenly broke down, and the men were thrown to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle, Tuesday,--A buggy, driven by a son of Alderman Henderson, collided with a waggonette in Hunter-street to-night. The occupants jumped out, and out, and the horse taking frigat,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We understand that on Monday, morning several dump cars were received at the Eveleigh workshops in an unworkable condition. The headstockers of four—although recently strengthened—were broken…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An accident [?] mutual nature happened Wednesday to a [?] Dermody, employed at Mort's Dock, Bal[?] appears that he was employed pulling a coal. There was no rope on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MORUYA, Wednesday.--A serious accident occurred at the breakwater quarry early today. Whilst an immense lump of stone was being lifted out of the trucks by means of a winch…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--Whilst the barque C. D. Bryant was being towed to the wharf by three tags this afternoon, [?] collided with Queen's Wharf, smashing her cutwater to the extent of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Thursday, noon, a child of three and a half years, the son of Mr. Alderman Davenport, was playing in the tannery yard when he accidentally knocked away the prop stick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Friday afternoon, between 5 and 6 o'clock, a little son of Mr. F. A. Morgan, of Petersham, fell off the Neutral Day Wharf, and but for the promptitude of a gentleman, whose name we have not been able…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Nisbet Bell was driving his milk-cart and delivering milk in the neighborhood of Milson's Point, North Shore at about 8 o'clock, on Friday morning, when the horse suddenly bolted down the Milson's…
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