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There is plenty of water at the place where the Union Company's steamship Waihora is beached on the north-east coast of Tasmania, and the officers of the steamer Southern Cross, which brought the Waihora's…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →News has been received from Cooktown of a melancholy boat accident. The lugger Arthur, which left Cooktown on Thursday for Bloomfield with 15 persons aboard, two of whom were women,…
Continued on Trove, page 403 →The steamer Alexandra reports that the steamer Menmuir anchored 30 miles north of Cooktown with her shaft broken. The chief officer left the vessel yesterday at 1 p.m. for Cooktown in an open boat, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 403 →The recent railway accident at Culcairn formed the subject to-day of a prosecution instituted by the Commissioner of Railways against Labbel, night officer at Culcairn station. Defendant was charged with neglect of duty by…
Continued on Trove, page 410 →The body of James Bell, the driver of the coach which was submerged while crossing the Barwon, was found last night by a blackfellow in a standing position in the river below the scene of the accident. An inquest was held…
Continued on Trove, page 410 →A CURIOUS accident happened at Granville on Wednesday during the laying of some pipes for the gas supply on the Parramatta road. For the Purpose of testing the joints of the newly laid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A shocking calamity happoned in the Lithgow Valley Colliery during Sunday afternoon and night. Inquiries at the Sydney office of the Company next morning showed they had received the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The master of the harbor steamer Millie pleaded guilty in the Water Police Court to-day to having failed to keep his vessel out of the way of the yacht Mallard, belonging to J. H. A. Lee, the vessels at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir.—I trust you will allow me, in justice to myself, a few lines in which to say:— 1. That the statements in my telegrams and letters to you from Lithgow were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A buggy accident occurred on Sunday whereby two ladies were seriously injured. Mrs. M'Donald and Mrs. King were retd ruing to Mandurama from church in a buggy with their children. A short distance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Southern Cross arrived at Hobart to-day from the wreck of the Waibora. She reports that the horses have been transhipped to the steamer Australia. When she has been got off the Waihora will strain right…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BRISBANE, Monday.--A fatal accident occurred yesterday at Clermont. A shearer named J. A. Sutherland, under the influence of liquor, rode into a lagoon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A distressing death occurred at the Forest. A Miss Eslick, daughter of Mr. Richard Eslick of that place, was engaged in cooking operations when her dress caught fire. She ran into the open air and was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—I see by your issue of the 18th instant, with regard to the Lathgow Colliery accident, that John Sheedy, a mountain native, 6ft 4in (which ought to have been 6ft 1in or 2in), deserves the Humane…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Cooktown telegram says that William Wilson, who started on Monday week along the beach from Archer Point, returned there on Sunday evening, having gone as far as Bloomfield without finding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquiry, into the circumstances attending the recent collision between the brig Amy and the steamer City of Grafton was held at the Custom House yesterday by the Marine Board. The vice-president, Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Cooktown telegram states that William Wilson, who started last Monday along the beach from Archer Point, returned there last evening, having gone as far as Bloomfield without finding any bodies or wreckage…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The T. S. N. Company's steamer Southern Cross with the passengers from the Waihora, stranded at Swan Island, reached the south wharf about 9 o'clock yesterday. As it was late at night when the Southern Cross parted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Monday afternoon a baker's cart, driven at a good pace down the Market Wharf, startled a horse in a dray belonging to Richard Hitchcock, and the animal backed over the protecting log at the end and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.--The body of a man whose name is unknown has been discovered in the Paterson River, near Woodville. His remains were in an advanced…
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