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Last week we published full particulars of the awful railway accident which ocsurred on the evening of Wednesday, the 11th instant, near Melbourne, on the Brighton line, between Prahran and Windsor. To explain our…
Continued on Trove, page 1070 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--The inquiry into the circumstances connected with the Windsor railway accident was continued to-day. Mr. Parves, Q.C., made a statement that he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Rugby Union has at last established a long felt want in the city, that is, a central room wherein meetings can be held, and where footballers can meet after the struggles of the day to discuss the merits or demerits of the different…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →TEMORA, Saturday. -- A serious accident happened to an old townsman 70 years old, named William Tanner, to-day. It appears that he was unloading some flour from a dray, when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A telegram from Sandhurst states that a shocking mining accident occurred to-night in Johnson's goldmine, California Gully. Three men, who were sinking a shaft fired three holes. Some time afterwards they…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,--In to-day's issue of The Daily Telegraph there appears a letter signed "Caution," referring to the late railway accident in Victoria and asking that an inquiry be held into the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOUBNE, Monday.--The coronial inquiry into the Wialser railway accident was resumed to-day and there was a very large attendance of the public. Mr. Purves, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GOULBURN,Monday.--a fatal accident occurred this morning to a man named Rawlings on the railway line between Bowral and a place known as The Jib. Rawlings was effecting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LITHGOW, Tuesday.--Shortly before 7 o'clock this evening a little boy named T. Wylie, aged 5 years, son of Mr. E.Wylie, a coal-miner, went to a well with his sister aged 11, to fetch water…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fatal accident happened last night at Rocky Ponds. When a goods train arrived at Harden at 12 o'clock it was seen that the guard, Thomas Maloney, was not in the train. On a search being made the unfortunate man's dead body…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The collision at the two harbor steamers, Genista and Leveret, on Friday last in Sydney Cove was then made the subject of inquiry. Mr. Burns appeared for the captain and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An inquiry was commenced into the circumstances of the loss of the schooner Pomme de Terre, which sank shortly after colliding with the Daphne, at about half- past 10 o'clock on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inquest on the persons killed in the Windsor Railway accident was resumed this morning. Mr. Gedge, the Prahran station-master, put in the correspondence which had passed between himself and the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The coronial inquiry into the Windsor railway accident was resumed to-day. The chief interest centred in the evidence of the booking- clerk Smith and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The inquiry into the circumstances of the collision which took place in the cove of the Circular Qaay Between the harbor steamers Genista and Leveret was resumed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire occurred during the performance of " Mignon " at the Opera Comique last night. The theatre was completely burnt, and 20 persons connected with the company were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The inquest concerning the deaths of the persons who lost their lives by the railway accident at Windsor on the 11th instant, was continued to-day at the Atheniuum. There was a large attendance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The inquest on the Windsor railway accident was advanced another stage to day. The examination of the youth Blackburn was concluded, but nothing new…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Friday.-- The Marine Board have given their decision in the matter of the collision between the schooner Surprise and the steamer Newcastle on Friday, 20th inst., half a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The decision of the local Marine Board with regard to the [?]llision between the steamer Newcastle and the schooner Surprise, which took place on the 20th instant, about half-a-mile outside Newcastle harbour, was delivered this morning…
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