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A magisterial enquiry was held yesterday by Mr. Joshua Bray, P.M., at the Brunswick-road, respecting the death of John M'Cormack, who was drowned on Sunday in a small creek on his selection. The body of the unfortunate…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A serious accident happened to a goods train near Taradale this evening. Just as the driver and fireman were getting up steam in order to travel up the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following have been attended in the Prince Alfred Hospital:—Francis Alfred Walker, a boy residing in Macdonaldtown, was playing on some timber when a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fatal accident occurred yesterday at Perth, eight miles from Bathurst. It appears that just before 6 o'clock, as the passenger train from Bathurst to Orange was approaching the private crossing opposite the residence of a farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →PARKES, Wednesday.--While two men named Brace and Thompson and a boy were driving in a spring cart yesterday, the cart was upset by the horse shying and the occupants were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An old man named Daniel Baldwin, a resident here for fully 20 years, and a carpenter by trade, committed suicide yesterday evening by drowning himself in the municipal baths. From tho evidence given at the inquest this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alderman John Ross met with a shocking; death from drowning in the river last night. He was returning home about midnight, the bight being dark and windy, and it is conjectured that he wished to call and see the captain of the…
Continued on Trove, page 399 →While bathing at Scarborough, the Rev. Arthur Newcome and Mr. Guy Broome ventured out too far, and tho sea being very rough, the Rev. Arthur Newcome was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday. -- At a quarter-past 5 o'clock this evening the schooner Mary Pashley, bound from Sydney for Nambuccra River, was run into off Redhead by the steamtug…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. R. Wise, partner of Mr. J. W. Rawson met with a very painful accident on Friday morning. Whilst attending to a circular saw, the saw dust which was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEW YORK, August 11.—A terrible railway accident occurred to day when, owing to the burning of a bridge ever the river Illinois, a train eastward bound for Niagara was hurled into the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At 9 o'clock last night, as Mr. and Miss O'Brien of Leichhardt, and their colored male servant were driving down Darling-street, the horse bolted down the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The public mind in these colonies has been much exercised over our two railway accidents, but America, which always takes the lead in gigantic developments, has just astonished the world with a catastrophe in…
Continued on Trove, page 383 →A terrible railway disaster occurred to-day. Owing to the burning of the bridge over the River Illinois a train eastward bound for Niagara was hurled into the river. The…
Continued on Trove, page 386 →A telegram from Rockhampton reports that a fearful accident occurred on Saturday on the Gladstone-road, at a place 17 miles from the town. The wife of a selector named Mann was…
Continued on Trove, page 399 →A fatal accident occurred yesterday at Perth, eight miles from Bathurst. It appears that just before 6 o'clock, as the passenger train from Bathurst to Orange was approaching the private crossing opposite the residence of a farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 399 →At the police court to-day, Christian Reus, a carter, was proceeded against by the Commissioner of Railways for allowing horses to stray on the railway line, and was fined £10, with £3 3s. costs. The case arose out of the accident…
Continued on Trove, page 399 →NEW YORK, August ll.—A terrible railway disaster occurred to-day. Owing to the burning of the bridge over the River Illinois a train eastward bound for Niagara was hurled into the river…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →An inquest was held at the South Sydney Morgue respecting the death of a man named Robert Sibbald, which took place at South, Head on Saturday afternoon last. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TOCUMWAL.—For weeks past the country about here has been submerged. On Monday last, Dan Robertson, eighteen years of age, was sent to fetch Borne horses from a flooded paddock by his…
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