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A magisterial inquiry was held yesterday, before Mr. Hugh Campbell, J.P., upon the body of Elizabeth Donovan. 100 years of age, who was found drowned in Mangrove Creek. The evidence showed that deceased…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A man named William Brown was drowned whilst swimming in Brisbane River yesternight near the Victoria Bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The body of the man Davidson, who was drowned on Sunday in the Murrumbidgee, has been discovered snagged about a mile down the river below Wagga Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An accident of a serious nature happened at Messrs. Goodlet and Smith's brick works. Merrylands, on Tuesday morning. A man named William Wicks was engaged in catting clay at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A young man named James Fear, 20, was felling trees at Guildford, on Tuesday, when the axe glanced off en to his leg and inflicted an ugly wound. He was treated at the Parramatta…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A flagman, named Thomas Bisson, 35 years of age, residing in Wells-street, Redfern, was run over by an engine, in the Darling Harbor catting yesterday, and sustained a compound fracture of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →James Fear was admitted to the local hospital to-day. He was cutting timber when his axe struck a hanging bough, with the result that he inflicted a serious wound…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A serious accident occurred this morning at Messrs. Goodlet and Smith's brickyards, Merrylands. A man named Wm. Wicks was cutting under for a fall of clay, when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A laborer named Charles Kent, 16 years of residing at 197, Gloucester street Church Hill, was at work in a produce fined at Darling Harbor this morning, when by some means he fell a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There is a movement on foot at Port Darwin on behalf of the man Spencer, who was sentenced to death for the murder of a black fellow at Port Essington…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir, -- On reading the account of the accident which occurred at the Leichhardt Regatta on New Year's Day I was much surprised to find that scarcely any mention…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A LITTLE girl named Nellie Wood, whose parents reside in High-street, North Shore, was taking to the Sydney Hospital yesterday afternoon, suffering from a fracture…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—A fall of coal occurred in a small colliery at Tighe's Hill this morning, and water rushed into the workings. There were several men in their places at the time and all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN accident by which a laborer named William Carghill lost his life occurred on board the R.M.S. Massilia last night. The man was working in the hold of the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--A fatal accident occurred this morning at a small coaimine near Tighe's-hill, on land rented from the Ferndale Coal Company by four lessees. One of these,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This morning John Garnet, one of the lessees of a small coal-mine at Tighe's Hill, descended the mine to see that all was right before the workman went down. Unfortunately, shortly after he went down, a break…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A resident of Fairfield named William Reeves, 35 years of age, employed at Hudson Brothers's works, was attempting to enter the 5.6 train as it was leaving the Clyde platform on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shortly after 10 o'clock last night a fatal accident happened to a laborer named William Carghill, employed on the P. and O. Co.'s R.M.S. Massilia, lying on Circular Quay. Deceased was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The flagman Thomas Bission, who was admitted into the Sydney Hospital on Tuesday, suffering from a fracture of both arms and injuries to the skull, caused through having been run over by an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Friday.—Nothing has been done toward recovering the body of John Garnet, the unfortunate miner who lost his life on Thursday morning through, the flooding of Stevens's Pride…
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