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On the voyage of the schooner Welcome from Kalpara to Sydney some very heavy weather was encountered. During a hard southerly gale the mate. Charles Helander, who was standing aft,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Port Victor, outward bound for Hobart, Tasmania, has been in collision with another vessel in the Thames. She will be delayed for repairs…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A melancholy drowning occurred as Yarra, some five miles from Goulburn, yesterday. A picnic party, including Mrs. Ball, wife of our Mayor, and her children…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another of those accidents, unhappily again proving fatal, for which Glenbrook has grown so noted of late took place on Saturday last in one of the tunnels at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An inquest was held to-day on the body of Thos. Lawless, who met with an accident on Saturday at the Glenbrook tunnel. It appears that deceased, with some other men, were employed in blasting in…
Continued on Trove, page 330 →PENRITH, Monday— While some men were employed putting-in charges of rackarock in a tunnel at Glenbrook on Saturday an explosion took place. One man was seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 46 →LONDON, January 31— The barque Ferndale, 1271 tons, Captain Blair, has been totally wrecked off Gray's Harbor, Washington, United States…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Another fatal, lift accident occurred late last night at the Stalbridge Chambers Hotel, at which Mr. William Ware, the licensee, was killed early yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TOC[?]MWAL, Monday.—A man named Thomas Cartwright went into the Murray at Tocumwal to bathe at dusk on Saturday evening. He was cautioned against dangerous currents at the spot…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The ship Andreta arrived in port on Saturday evening after a very long passage from Port Elizabeth. During the voyage a heavy sea broke…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fatal accident occurred on the railway between here and Koorawatha on Saturday night. Ganger Houghton while proceeding home on his tricycle was run over by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A second fatal lift accident has occurred at St. Albridge-chambers Hotel, Chancery-lane, where William Ware, the licens[?] of the hotel, was killed yesterday morning. In…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Sunday morning, January 10, the last tram motor from the steamer wharf ran off the line opposite Rosehill Racecourse, and an examination showed that several stones…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PATRICK GILLIGAN, head yardsman at the stables of the City Catering, Co. in Wattle street, Glebe, was herding a number of horses yesterday, when one of the animals…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--At the inquest held yesterday on the body of William Ware, licensee of the Stalbridge-chambers Hotel, Chancery-lane, killed on Friday by falling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—An inquest was held by Mr. Candler, the acting city coroner, at the Melbourne Hospital to-day, respecting the death of George Francis, 66 years of age, a civil…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another drowning case occurred here on Sunday, this being the second during the past week. A boy about 15 years of age, and son of Mr. F. Foster, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An accident of a serious nature, and which fatal results are apprehended, happened in George-street, near the Post Office, on Monday afternoon. A drayman named John…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A gun accident happened about 8 this morning at Glenrock. Mr. George Tompsitt shot himself while getting through a three-rail fence, and died without a struggle. The body was found across a middle rail,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A shocking fatality occurred at Campbell's Creek-road gateway, near Castlemaine, on Monday night. Mary M'Donough, wife of the gatekeeper, on hearing a train about…
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