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An inquest was held yesterday by the City Coroner, at the Soudan Hotel, Lower George-street, on the body of a man named Charles Bachmann, who, on sunday afternoon, fell into the water at the Circular Quay and was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.--The inquest on the body of Lydia Brown was held to-day, when a verdict of "found drowned" was returned. The grounds for the suspicion of the woman having…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the South sydney Morgue yesterday the City Coroner (Mr.H.Shiell,J. P.) held art inquest touching the death of a man named Daniel M'Elroy, 42 years of age, whose body was on Sunday morning found floating in the waters…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Marine Board held an inquiry yesterday relative to the circumstances connected with the collision which occurred off North Head on the morning of the 16th instant between the steamer Coonanbara and the brig Syren…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The board yesterday gave their decision in the case of the collision between the steamer Coonanbara and the brig Syren, which occurred off North Head on February 10. There were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GRAFTON, Tuesday.--Mr. Sedgwick, the manager of the Australian Joint Stock Bank at Grafton, was thrown from his horse at Lawrence on Monday and is supposed to have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest was held at Gladesville on Wednesday, before Mr. J. E. Manning, coroner for the Ryde districts, on the body of a child named Leslie Bark, aged 2 years and 7 months. On Tuesday afternoon, the parents of the deceased…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A collision occured in Sydney C[?]e last evening between the steamer Emu, en route to Manly with some 200 passengers on board, and the steamer Waratah, from North…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The waters of the Circular Quay were the scene of a startling and serious collision late last night between two ferry steamers plying on the Manly and North Shore lines. The boats collided just…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A terrible fatal accident is reported from the neighbourhood of Doodle Coodma. A little girl named Annie Parsons, about 8 years of ago, daughter of a farmer in the locality named, went to bring in a yearling calf. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. J, E. Bowden, Parramatta Coroner, held an inquest at Auburn, on Thursday lost concerning the death of an old woman named Martha Elliott, 01 years of age, the mother of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Particulars gathered yesterday relative to the collision which took place in the Circular Quay, between the steamers Emu and Waratah, do not disclose any material facts as to the actual collision. The captain of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →An inquest was held at Auburn on Thursday last, before Mr J. E. Bowden, Parramatta coroner, touching the death of Martha Elliott wife of ex-Detective Elliott, who was found floating in an underground tank on the adjoining…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Four men, named Alexander Ferguson, R. W. Davis, Michael Burns, and August Mybeg, had a narrow escape from being drowned on the voyage of the steamer Sydney from Sydney to Newcastle. Last night, at 10 p.m., when…
Continued on Trove, page 462 →A collision took place on Thursday night, between 10 and 11 o'clock, between the steamer Emu, of the Port Jackson Steamship Company, and the steamer Waratah, of the North Shore Ferry Company; and…
Continued on Trove, page 428 →The Netherland steamship Waesland, 8500 tons, which left Antwerp for New York recently, reported that at noon on the second day a Whale was seen floating on the water directly in…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →The collision which occurred in Sydney Cove between the Emu and the Waratah on Thursday night was the general topic of conversation in town yesterday and especially in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sad boating accident occurred yesterday afternoon at Lake Tyers, Bairnsdale. Five persons went for a sail, namely Mr. George Smith and his son, of Fitzroy, Misses Curtis and Dunn, of Sale, and the boatman…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--A shocking accident acc[?]rred on Lake Tyers yesterday afternoon, when a sailing-boat capsized, throwing a pleasure party into the water. Three of the party were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,--It is only natural that the press should again be loud in its complaints as to the disposition of the ferry wharves at the Circular Quay…
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