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A terrible accident happened on the North-eastern line on Wednesday morning to a main whose name is unknown. At about 4 o'clock on Wednesday morning the trunk of a man was found on the line near…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An extraordinary fatality occurred lately neat Malpas, Cheshire. A farmer named Griffiths was carting a load of corn from one of his fields to ths stackyard, and a laborer, carrying a pitchfork, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—A man named John Davis sustained severe injuiries while working in the Glebe Pit on Wednesday afternoon. He and a mate were treading. Davis was holing coal, and another man…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Recently four girls were badly scalded and one died from the bursting of the drum of a steam cylinder in the Murray Hill Laundry, New York. The sufferings of the victims -were pitiable, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mrs. Morris, the wife of the lockup keeper, met with a nasty accident yesterday. While she was running after her child she slipped and fell, breaking her arm above the wrist. She sustained a serious…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A young man named A.T. Hartnell, recently married was accidentally shot on Tuesday afternoon near Dandnong. He was trailing a rifle behind him through some acacias, when a spike caught the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Several boat accidents occurred yesterday, two of them unfortunately attended with fatal results--four lives being cut short amid the universal rejoicings…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The customary rejoicings in connection with the ushering in of the New Year were unfortunately marred by the occurrence of another of these fatal boat accidents with which the inhabitants of the metropolis are unhappily…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An inquest was held at Squires' Nepean Hotel on Monday, mornings, before Mr. J. K. Lethbridge, J.P., coroner, and a jury of twelve, touching the death of Frederick Fallick, who was drowned in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the height of the bustle and excitement on the Circular Quay yesterday consequent on the departure of so many steamers with the joyous, happy, loads of pleasure seekers, a email harbor steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A sad case of drowning occurred this afternoon, on the Nepean, two miles beyond Breakfast Creek. Three brothers named Fallick, of Sydney, with another friend, came to Penrith last night for the purpose of spending the holidays…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →A shocking accident happened here yesterday, resulting in the drowning of three boys. Two lads, named respectively Samuel Osbourne and John Montague, went to bathe in a dam near the hospital hill, and, getting out…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The Collector of Customs has received the following telegram from the collector at Port Douglas:—"A pilot, who has just returned from Low Island, reports that the second assistant pilot M'Millan and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday a pitiable accident befell a lad, 14 years old, just outside the Sir Joseph Hank pavilion at Botany. He was travelling with some friends, who purposed spending the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN inquest was held at the Woolpack Hotel, Liverpool, on Tuesday last, by Bit. J. E. Bowden, district coroner, on the body of a man named Christopher Smith. De[?]ased was a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Charles White, 18 years of age, son of Councillor White, of South Melbourne, rode a horse, leading another, into the sea at Emerald Hill, on Sunday afternoon. The horse which he led pulled him off the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Saturday afternoon the deputy coroner, Mr. W. T. Pinhey, opened an inquiry in the Soudan Hotel, Circular Quay, into the circumstances attending the death of Arthur William Hastings Senior…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Official inquiry was held on Saturday afternoon at the Soudan Hotel, by the Acting coroner (Mr. Pinhey) into the Circumstances associated with the deplorable death…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A very heavy storm, which extended only a few miles on the lute, took place between the two stations, Wallendbeen and Nubba, about fourteen miles from Cootamuadra on Saturday evening. It began shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest was held on Saturday night in the Parramatta District Hospital on the body of a man (name unknown) who was cut to pieces by a train in the afternoon…
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