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LONDON, January 24.—A disastrous explosion of dynamite took place this afternoon, in Westminster Hall. A lady informed a police constable that she had observed some men place a parcel in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The acting-Coroner, Mr. Pinhey, J.P., held an inquiry yesterday, on the body of Edward Frank Whelow, the railway guard who was run over by a train and killed on the Illawarra line on Saturday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An inquest was held by Mr. J. E. Bowden in Parramatta, on Saturday afternoon, on the body of Richard Leadbeater Bissett, 10 years age, which was found in a waterhole in a disused brick yard…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Pinhey, the acting coroner, held a magisterial inquiry in the White Hart Hotel, George-street north, on Monday afternoon, concerning the death off a man named Peter M'Carthy, who was drowned an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr George Smith, of Carathool, lacerated wound of the nose and bruises on the face, with, it is thought, fracture of rib. Mrs Smith, his wife, contusion above the left…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GOULBURN, Monday. -- Three doctors went from here to the scene of the disaster this morning, and to-night a train arrived with a number of the wounded. They were all admitted into hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An accident occurred at Lawson station on Saturday. Two engines collided while shunting, and three persons were injured. A dense fog prevailed while an engine was being put on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The train which left Sydney yesterday with the Minister of Works, arrived safely in Cootamundra, at about 20 minutes to 10 a.m. Some little excitement was created on the journey owing to a report…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COOTAMUNDRA, Monday. --The late tragic catastrophe, which is perhaps unparalleled in the history of the colony, has thrown Cootamundra into a condition of the wildest excitement and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While a little girl named Catherine Bridget Farrel, who lived, at Sheoak Log, was lighting a fire, her clothes ignited. As she was very severely burned, she was sent to the hospital : but she…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A man named Saul Duering was driving in his cart near the corner of George and Campbell streets, on Saturday, when the horse canted against him and knocked him down. The wheel of the vehicle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ADELAIDE, Monday. -- A boat accident recently occured near Port Pirie. David Kelly, William Nelly, John Cohen, and Thos Reynods stared from Port Broughton for Port Pirie. Off Point…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Thursday afternoon last a young lady named Miss Johnson, while taking a bath at the Corporation Baths, Balmain, had a very narrow escape from drowning. It seems she was unable…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A special train, which consisted of an engine and a sleeping car, arrived at 5.35 p.m. on Tuesday, from Cootamundra. In it were three of those were in the mail train which was wrecked on Sunday night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →If one of the fettlers had had the courage to force his way across the stream, or sufficient perseverance to work his way round, he would have discovered the third cap, warned the approaching train, and thus…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A terrible railway accident occurred on the Great Southern Railway Line, between Cootamundra and Bethungra on Sunday night. In Consequence of the heavy rain which bad fallen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GOULBURN. Wednesday.-- The two sufferers from [?] are having every attention [?] to them at the hospital. Barnard's case in [?] it is thought the injured arm will have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A special train conveying suffers from Cootamundra arrived in Melbourne at 10 minutes to 12 to-day. Messrs [?] and Giles were in one…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The mail train arrived nearly an hour late this morning. The passengers for Melbourne, Wagga, and other places beyond, had to walk to meet the train on the other side of the scene of the disaster the stoker, who was returning to Harden from Melbourne, whither he had been on leave of absence. He left in the Victorian capital a wife and four children, who intended to travel by the same train, but at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The acting-Coroner received a report on Wednesday that a boy named Sydney Hastings died that morning in his residence in Lane Cove, Balmain, from the effects of having drunk the contents of a small bottle of acetic…
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