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Shortly before half-past 10 o'clock yesterday morning a peculiar accident, fortunately unattended with any very serious results, occurred at Petersham. A blasting charge had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE water police yesterday succeeded in recovering the body of James. Irwin, the victim of last Sunday's boating fatality in Woolloomooloo Bay, off Lady Macquarie's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In connection with the Petersham accident it appears that the train consisted of eight of the new carriages, which have just been added to the rolling stock. The train was coming into the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Wallsend Police Court on Tuesday James Gay was charged with the wilful murder of David Stubbs at Plattsburg on the 21st instant. The evidence was neatly the same as that given…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A serious accident occurred on the railway aiding loading into Box Hill brickworks last night. Twenty-two trucks had been loaded with bricks and were on the line ready to be drawn away…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An accident happened to the Melbourne express on Monday night. When descending Mount Broughton the cotter of the piston rod gave way on one of the engines. The train had to draw back to Moss Vale,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PENRITH, Tuesday. -- A serious accident happened here to a young lady named Miss Hall. It seems Miss Hall was alighting from her buggy in order to view the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FREDERICK WHEELER, 50, a wharf laborer, residing at Bonas-place, off Erskine-street, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital ibis morning suffering from a severe fracture of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE circumstances attending the death of James Erwin, the young man who lost his life in Woolloomooloo Bay on Sunday through the capsize of a sailing boat, were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was held yesterday at the Croydon Hotel, Lower George-street, before the Deputy City Coroner, Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., on the body of the young man, James Erwin, who was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While bathing two sisters named Leoni and [?]Eva Gillespie, aged 15 nd 13, have been drowned in the Thames Rivesr (N.Z.). Richard Reynolds and John Kelly, who were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The City'Deputy Coroner, Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., held an inquest at the Croydon Hotel yesterday relative to the death of the young man, James Erwin, who was drowned owing to the capdize of a sailing bo[?]t…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FREDERICK WHEELER, 50, a wharf laborer, residing at Bomis-place, off Erskiue-street, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital this morning suffering from a severe fracture of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →With reference to the blasting accident which occurred at Petersham on Tuesday morning, whereby a number of passengers in a passing train were injured, the railway authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A board of experts is to be appointed to fully investigate the cause of the gun accident at Queensclitf. It is understood that the Government will make…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HOBART, Wednesday.--A fatal gun accident occurred on the river this morning. Athol Bellette, eldest surviving son of Superintendent Bellette, of the Glenorchie police, was with a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Thursday.--Mrs. Richard Green, of near Freeling, aged 71, was killed by the 9.46 train yesterday morning at a crossing north of the railway station. The train ran through and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Friday.—Abaut 9 o'clock on Thursday night a loud report and crashing of timbers was heard in the harbor, and it became patent that a serious collision between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At 9 o'clock last night a serious collision occurred in the upper harbor between the barque Conference and the barque Ellen. The former had entered the heads, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →James Campbell was charged at the Wilcannia Police Court on Thursday with forging a cheque for £7 at the Kircumbra Hotel, Moruba, on March [?] last. The cheque was signed Thos. Morrison,…
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