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Ellen Jane Tanner, 17 years of ago, was shot dead by her employee, T. B. Hikeley, draper, at Bacchus Marsh. He was showing her a revolver he had used to shoot…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Monday.--The Rev. C. H. Spur[?]eon has been injured by a fall…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-A sad and fatal shooting accident occurred at Bacchus Marsh on Monday. Mr. T. B. Hikeley, draper, had returned to his shop after shooting parrots with a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.-A seaman named Macintosh, belonging to the ship Bannockburn, which is moored in Horseshoe, on Tuesday afternoon proceeded on board his vessel in a state of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, This Day.-- The Marine Court holds an inquiry into the collision between the Hauroto and King Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, January 8.-The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon has fallen down stairs, and has received a great shock to the system…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MURRUMBURRAH, Wednesday.-The engine and tender of the mail train from Murrumburrah to Young ran off the line at the points, on Tuesday, while shunting near Young. No one was injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-Aplumber, named Wm. Adcock, while ascending a ladder at the new Freehold Bank, Geelong, to effect some repairs to the spouting, fell a distance of 23ft, fracturing his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon has fallen down stairs, and has received a great shock to the system…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ellen Jane Tanner, 17 years of age, was shot dead by her employer, T. B. Hikeley, draper, at Bacchus Marsh. He was showing her a revolver he had used to shoot…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →During the voyage of the Union Company's steamer Ringarooma, which arrived from Auckland on Tuesday, the vesssel experienced very rough weather. On Sunday, while a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,--Having had a good deal of practical experience in Swimming, both in fresh water and salt, and in a great many parts of the globe, with your permission I would offer my…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MOLONG, Wednesday.-On Tuesday Mr Kaiser, public school teacher, Sydney, visiting Molong friends, was out shooting. When his gun was loaded full cock he thought he heard the shot…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.-A young man named Wo[?]dersen fell down the hold of the ship Hengist this morning, and sustained a fracture of the skull. He was conveyed to the hospital, where…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A CHINAMAN named Ah Yong was admitted late last night to the Parramatta Hospital, suffering from a broken arm and other injuries, sustained by a fall…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →APIA, December 28.--The cutter owned by Arthur Young, trading between this port and Manua, an island about 1[?]0 miles from here arrived on Wednesday, with the shipwrecked,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.-A young man named Amos Wilkes was run over by an engine near the Newmarket railway station on Wednesday night, and seriously injured. A man named Geddes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A shocking railway accident occurred on the new railway line near Gordon, North Shore, shortly before 5 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, when a navvy named John Lyons met with a…
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