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A lamentable accident took place in Botany Bay on Saturday afternoon, by which four lives were lost. It seems that between 4 and 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon five of the members of the Permanent Artillery and three…
Continued on Trove, page 703 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--Edward Elliott, a well-known farmer of Wooragee, was thrown from his horse and kilied. The case is a very sad one. Elliott had got news that his wife bad…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Thursday evening a woman named Mary Anu Lawrence, 55, while crossing Bay-street Glebe, was knocked down by a runaway horse and was severely hurt about the legs and feet…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The acting-City Coroner (Captain. Fisher) held an inquest at the Sooth Sydney Morgue on Saturday into the circumstances attending the death of Frank Barbour. The deceased was one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The remaining two missing bodies were recovered on Saturday from Botany Bay by John Sparks and F. Woods, fishermen, of Botany. The bodies were those of Mr. Whitehead, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The acting-coroner, Mr. A. M. Fisher, held an inquest at the South Sydney Morgue on Saturday, into the circumstances attending the death of Frank Barbour, one of the four men…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A smash occurred at the Parramatta railway station last night at about ten minutes to 8, when a special goods train ran into a passenger train on the up line which was waiting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--On Saturday afternoon a dynamite explosion occurred at North Fitzroy, resulting in the destruction of a carpenter's shop at the rear of the house. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A serious collision occurred on the line at Parramatta a few minutes before 8 o'clock to-night between a special goods train and a passenger train. The passenger train was standing on the up side of the platfo[?] waiting to go…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At ten minutes to 8 last night a special goods train from Penrith, consisting of forty trucks and a brakevan, in charge of Driver Clarke, engine No. 385, came dashing into the Parramatta…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following have been attended in the Sydney Hospital:— Bernard M'Gill, 25, cabman, France-street, cut head; Mary Ann Finn, 12, St. John's-conrt, injury to elbow, caused by her…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A sad accident occurred last night on the railway line at Cockburn to a timekeeper named Charles Lieb[?]k[?]r, in the employ of Miller Brothers. it appears that while some trucks were being shunted the unfortunate man…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Acting-Coroner (Captain Fisher, J.P.) held an inquest at the South Sydney Morgue on Saturday regarding the death of a man named Frank Barbour, who was drowned with three other men at Botany on Saturday, the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The following were attended in the Prince Alfred Hospital:—John Egan, 23, Cowper-street, Glebe, had some words with a man, name unknown, who struck him in the stomach; Alfred…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The day's events were singularly free from accidents, there being up to midnight no serious case whatever reported to the police, either in the city or the suburbs. Neither did the hospitals receive any additional indoor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Joseph Booth, vanman, of Wynhdham-street, Alexandria, was leading a horse from his stable on the 28th ultimo, when a joist fell upon him, striking his head and occasioning very dangerous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--This afternoon a child named Preston fell into a tub of water in a yard off Bolton-street and was drowned. The mother was talking with a friend at the time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Minister for Works has received several reports from the officials of the Railway Department regarding the collision which took place on Sunday evening at Parramatta. The reports are voluminous, and they contain a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ON Sunday night, shortly before 8 o’clock, whilst most of the people of Parramatta were at church, attending to their religious devotions, the railway station was the scene of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An incident worthy of notice occurred in Wagga Wagga on Thursday last. Mr. George Turner, with his wife and child, were going out in a boat. They were accompanied by his sister…
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