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Sir.--This question has been debated at considerable length through your columns, but I trust you will grant me a small space to enable me to answer a question asked by "Triple…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ADELAIDE.—Richard M'Rostle, son of a farmer at Tantanoola, was shot accidentally by his brother on Saturday. They were out duck shooting, and Richard sprang upon the grass just as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir, -- I have with great care read the almost interminable reports, correspondence and articles on the above subjects that have appeared; in your columns, and I have taken…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A painful sensation was occasioned throughout Portsmouth, on July 23, when it became known that a serious accident had occurred on board the gunboat Kite during the Royal inspection of the fleet. Like the other ships the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Will you kindly allow me space to [?] review the deductions made by the board as to the cause of the Peat's Ferry accident, which appeared in your issue of last Saturday and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The question of fixing a rate of compensation to be paid to persons who meet with injuries while travelling on our lines of railway has been engaging the attention of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →KIAMA, Wednesday.--A serious accident happened this afternoon at Messrs. Hill and Co.'s quarry, at Bombo, to a single middle-aged man named William White. While he was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BULLI, Thursday.--The 6 o'clock train from Clifton this evening ran over a bull in a cutting near Robbinsville Platform, a mile distant from here, causing the hind…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Father O'Keefe, accompanied by a young man named Lyons, was driving towards Rylstone on Sunday, and, near Havilah, they attempted to cross Lawrence's Creek, which was in flood. The vehicle was overturned, and the horse…
Continued on Trove, page 526 →A commission for taking evidence in an action pending on the Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice between the owners of the ship Orontes and the owners of the chip Angerona for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Friday--The Ship Victoria Regina, Which collided with the ship persian Empire on the 23rd ult., arrived here from Melbourne to-day, and was towed up the stream…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ship Victoria Regina, from Melbourne to Newcastle for coal for San Francisco, reached port shortly after noon to-day. Captain Cawsey reports his ship left Port Phillip Heads, in tow of the steamtug Vulcan, at 7 a.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →GRENFELL, Friday.--The Ministerial party arrived here this afternoon from Forbes, which was left at 9 o'clock this morning. The weather was line and the company included Mr. Greene,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last night Inspector Brennan received news that a man named Alexander Douglas had been drowned at Lake Macquarie. Deceased and another man named Alexander Walker were out in a small skiff, and the boat capsized…
Continued on Trove, page 526 →Sir,--We are greatly surprised at Mr. Norman Selfe's letter in The Daily Telegraph of August 81, and if we were to follow the example of the Commissioner for Railways and Mr. Vernon we…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →GOULBU[?], Saturday. -- A farmer named Charles Churcahill, residing at Gullen, let Gou[?]urn for home last evening on horseback. His horse was round the other side of Baw Baw…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BOURKE.—On Saturday afternoon the steamer Wilcannia, with a barge in tow, left Bourke for Brewarrina. Chas. Smith, the cook of the vessel, went to the sponson abaft the paddle-wheel to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WOLLONGONG, Saturday.--A shocking mining fatality occurred at the Mount Kembla colliery to-day. A miner named M[?]lntyre was so fearfully injured by a fall of stone that he died…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following cases were attended in the Sydney Hospital—William Cornish, 38. laborer, Leesen-street, injured elbow; John Hynes. 30, fitter, Edmund-street. Waverley, lacerated…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--A litle boy, named Ferguson, eight years of age, the son of a lighterman, was blown off the deck of a hulk at Wiiliamstown to-day, during a strong gale,…
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