Accident to the Emu
A considerable amount of alarm, was caused to the passengers to Manly by the steamer Emu on Saturday evening. The Emu (which has only just left dock) suddenly stopped when off Chowder, it is supposed…
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Buggy Accident. PARRAMATTA
Mr. Mills the father of Mr. J. Y, Mills, was driving into Parramatta from Cheekly, to-day, accompanied by his wife and daughter, who had a child in her arms. The horse, usually a quiet…
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On Friday the steam ferry punt Transit met with an accident. After having left Kangaroo Point, the after lip of the punt struck one of the piles of the landing stage, which caused her to go…
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John Clogan and David Jones, navvies, engaged on the Homebush to Newcastle railway extension, were taken to the Sydney Hospital, on Saturday, suffer-ing from the effects, of injuries sustained on Friday…
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The Emu (just out of dock) left Sydney for Manly at 9 o'clock on Saturday evening. When opposite Chower Bay she stopped, owing, it is believed, to an accident to her engines, end she…
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LONDON, February 2.—The steamer Amalfi came into collision with the Netherlands steamer Oranje in the Gulf of Aden, and the latter was sunk…
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At the inquest which has been held on the body of Lewis Morris, who was drowned in Hegarty's Baths, St. Kilda, on Friday, a verdict of "accidental death" was returned. The jury…
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The steamer Amalfi came into collision with the Netherlands steamer Oranje in the Gulf of Aden, and the latter was sunk…
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The Engineer for Existing Lines Anticipated that it would not be before Wednesday evening that the traffic would be fully resumed on the Southern line. But the work in connection with the construction of…
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Owing to a mistake of the engine-driver of a pilot engine, who thought that he was on a siding, the engine ran into the Sydney express at the Seymour station on Monday night and smashed…
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A fatal accident happened at the railway station, Darling Harbour, shortly before 7 p.m. on Tuesday. A man named Alexander Clifford, while in the act of unloading some iron rails by means of a slide, missed…
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John M'Donnell, ex-superintendent in St. Helena, was driving his wife into town in a spring-cart, which, when opposite the Duke of Cornwall Hotel in Stanley-street, collided with a…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- The Sydney express tram, while stopping at Seymour station last night, sustained damage to two of its carriages, consequent on the pilot-engine, on approaching to…
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An Inquest was held on Wednesday in the Courthouse Hotel Australis-street, Newtown, on the body of Alexander Maxwell, three and a half years old, son of Charlotte Maxwell, of 78, Australia-street…
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An inquest was held in the South Sydney Morgue on Wednesday, by the acting-Coroner, into the death of Alexander M'Gifford. The deceased was engaged on Thursday unloading rails on the wharf at Darling…
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On Tuesday night a boy named Alexander Maxwell, five and a half years old, son of Charlotte Maxwell, who resides apart from her husband, was found drowned in a well in his mother's residence, 78,…
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Stephen Woodcock, one of the oldest residents of Burrowa, was accidentally killed on Tuesday by having been thrown from his dray, near Frogmore. His skull was knocked in, either by…
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Sunday, the 20th of Janunrh, 1885, the ove of the 97th anniversary of the foundation of the colony, will long reamin in the annals, and especially the railway annals, of the land as a black-letter day. But well…
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An inquest was held in Newtown on Wednesday into the circumstances connected with the death of child named Mary Cleary, two months old, who was found dead on Wednesday morning. The medical…
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At the inquest on the six bodies, held at the Albion Hotel, Cootamundra, before Mr. E. P. Barnes, J.P., coroner, and a jury of 12, the following evidence was taken:- Samuel Murrey, guard of the wrecked train, said the…
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