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An accident occurred yesterday at the West Wallsend Colliery. It seems that while two skips were being drawn up the steel rope parted. Fortunately there were no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HAY, Thursday.-A drowning fatality occurred at Howiong station yesterday afternoon. About 4 o'clock a man named John Fairlie, employed on the station,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →John Ryan, the seaman who was taken to the hospital on Tuesday night, suffering from serious injuries alleged to have been inflicted by an Indian named Deane, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A tram accident occurred at the Elizabeth street entrance of Belmore Park yesterday morning, which, although fortunately ending without fatal results, might have been of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News has been received of a terrible disaster involving the death of a large number of persons. A pleasure steamer, crowded with passengers, was proceeding to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At about 9 yesterday morning a fettler, named Matthew Callagan, 46, and living at 424 Bourke-street, Surry Hills, was knocked down by a train at liberty-street railway crossing, Newtown. He…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A sad case of drowning occurred at Frogmore on Wednesday last. A little child, the daughter of Mr. Schneider of that place, wandered from her home unnotieed by her parents, and when she was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A woman named Amy Miller met with a dreadful death on March 31. She was subject to epileptic fits, and was engaged in washing when her husband left home at 6 o'clock in the morning…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →ARMIDALE, April 4.—A Mrs. Pastoors and her daughter, aged 7 years, were capsized out of a buggy into Baker's Creek, and were carried away by the strong current. The bodies have since…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →LONDON, March 31.—A great fire has taken place at Rangoon, Burmah, causing damage to the amount of five lakhs of rupees (about £50,000)…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The inquiry into the collision between the P. and O. Company's steamer Britannia and the vessel Knight of St. John in the Suez Canal some time ago has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An accident of an unusual character occurred on the overland express which left Melbourne on April 1 for Sydney. About eight miles from Benalla a little boy aged 5 years, son of Mr. Kegg, of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →A sensational elopement is reported from Fremantle. It appears that a girl 17 years old, who is closely related to several of the best families in the colony, became attached to a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →CONDOBOLIN, Saturday.-A young man named Wm. Campbell was brought into the hospital yesterday, from Burra Burra Station, shot through the body. It appears that the unfortunate man…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →William Campbell, aged 21, a selector on the Burra Burra run, about 40 miles distant, met with a terrible accident last evening. He was out shooting, and had wounded a kangaroo, after which he raised the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →On the 1st instant a telegram was received reporang than, during a heavy squall at Albany the barque Kingdom of Saxony, then lying at the railway pier, parted her moorings and drove ashore. A message to hand from the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →While bathing at Warrnambool on Saturday afternoon, April 2, a boy, named Augustus Hayes, was swept away by a strong tide, and it was apparent to those present…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A fatal accident occurred at Evandale Junction on March 30 to a porter named Thomas Cleaver. The deceased was in the act of coupling the trucks when his foot caught and the train passed…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A MOST distressing accident happened at 6 o'clock on the evening of February 24 on the Marsh Mills Foundry Estate, Cleckheaton, one of the most extensive mill properties in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An accident of an extremely painful nature, and one which, is likely to prove serious, happened on Saturday to Mr. Wardell, the well-known Sydney architect. It seems that Mr. Wardell,…
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