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The circumstances attending the death of William Rankin, who was killed near the Petersham railway station on Thursday night last, shortly before half-past 11 o'clock, by being knocked down by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr.W.T.Pinhey, J.P. (Deputy City Coroner), held an inquest at the South Sydney Morgue on Saturday morning upon the body of George Augustus Kane, who was killed on the railway last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Last night a shocking accident is reported as having happened on the Sydney railway line, between Cardiff and Cookie Creck. From the report made by the driver of the 8.10 goods train from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A serious accident to the coach to the Manning River happened early on Good Friday morning. As the down coach was nearing Stroud with a heavy mail, and in consequence of the holidays a full…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Saturday night Thos. Vaughan, aged 69, a carpenter employed at the Hospital for the Insane, at Rydalmere, was knocked down and run over by a van containing a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A sad railway fatality occurred near Adamstown late on Saturday night, when a man named Andrew M'Kenzie met his death by being knocked down by a passing train…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jos. Kay, driver of the Manning coach, Who was much crushed in the accident of Good Friday, remains in a doubtful state. He has lost much blood from internal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An inquest was held on Saturday morning at the South Sydney morgue, before Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., Deputy City Coroner, touching the death of a man named George Augustus…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →STROUD, Saturday. -- The coach with the mails and passengers from Hexham to Port Macquarie met with a serious accident near Stroud on Good Friday morning. Some two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A youth named Oscar Wilson, aged 17 years, was drowned while beating in Cook's River on Monday afternoon. In company with four others deceased was in an open boat, and while they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A lad named Oscar Wilson (17) was accidentally drowned in Cook's River at about half-past 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He was sitting on the bow of a pleasure boat,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.--Coroner Martin held an inquest to-day touching the death of the man Andrew M'Kenzie, whose body was found on the railway line, near Cardiff, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-At Lancefield Junction Artillery Camp yesterday nearly all the tents were struck, when the rain commenced, and the final manoeuvres were interrupted by a serious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.--The steamer Culgoa of Lund's Blue Anchor line, has been damaged by a collision in the Thames, and is now discharging with a view to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Culgoa, of Lund's Blue Anchor line, which had left London for Sydney, has put back damaged and leaky, having come into collision with another…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--The Easter camps generally are being broken up. To-day an accident occurred at Lancefield Junction which might have had very serious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A shocking accident happened yesterday at Fairy Bower, Manly Beach, to a man named Thomas Toohey. In company with his wife and children, Toohey proceeded to Manly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →As was expected, the unfortunate man Thomas Toohey, who was so seriously injured by falling from the rocks at Manly on Monday afternoon, succumbed to his injuries in the Sydney Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PARRAMATTA, Monday.-An accident attended with a fatal result occurred at Rydalmere at 7 o'clock on Saturday night. Ten members of the Parramatta Infantry were returning from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamer Culcoa, one of Mr. Lund's Australian line, which had left London for Sydney, has put back damaged and leaky, having come into collision with another vessel in the Channel. It is found necessary to have part of her…
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