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A serious blasting accident, which nearly cost a laborer named Robert Travers his life, occurred at Balmain yesterday. He was working on the land lately acquired by tho Sydney Harbor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A very sad fatality occurred at Unanderra on Saturday afternoon, when a lad named Frank O'Donnell, aged 11, the eldest son of Mr. Frank O'Donnell…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A young man named Thomas Moore was admitted to the Sydney Hospital to-day suffering from lacerated wounds to three fingers of the left hand. The accident…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A laborer named James Henringham, 33, employed at Hoskins Brothers' foundry at Uitimo, was seriously injured while at work this morning. He was engaged with others breaking up old water pipes,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The man Robert Travers, who was injured by an explosion at Balmain yesterday, as reported in yesterday's first edition, was reported to be in a precarious condition. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest was hold to-day on the body of Martiu Kelly, a labourer, aged 59, who died at the Melbourne Hospital from fracture of the skull, received in a free fight on New…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alderman Anthony, the well-known tanner of Smithfield, met with a painful accident at his works on Monday about noon. He was attending at a machine,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It transpires that the name of the man injured in the blasting accident at Balmain yesterday is Robert Travers, and not Laird. The latter was the name first reported to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →James Henringham, 33, a workman at Hoskins's foundry, Chippendale, was the victim of an accident of an extremely lamentable nature to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A shocking blasting accident occurred near the Birchgrove Public School, Balmain, this morning, on the site chosen for sinking the Balmain…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two youths, who have not yet been identified, were drowned at Enfield yesterday afternoon. The Newtown police received intimation of the drowning last night, and immediately dispatched…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sad fatality occurred at Enfield yesterday afternoon. Two boys named Kerslake, aged respectively 10 and 8 years, were bathing n a water-hole. The boys got out of their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.--A miner named Henry Atkinson, was severely injured at East Greta colliery this afternoon. He was engaged in No. 2 board removing tops, when a fall of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A sad occurrence took place at Enfield last evening when three brothers named Kerslake, aged 8, 10 and 14 respectively, lost their lives, by drowning. The two younger lads went to bathe in a creek not far…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →While attempting to alight from the box of a moving 'bus at the corner of Abercrombie and Shepherd streets yesterday, a young man named Alfred Paulson, residing in Wilton-street, Redfern, slipped, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COROWA, Wednesday.—Mr. D. Kyle, of the Riverside Farm, met with a serious accident while out shooting yesterday evening. He was getting through a fence with his gun loaded and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ESPERANCE (W.A.). Wednesday.—The mail tender Macgregor, when about to start for Eucla, drove into the jetty, and did considerable damage. This is said to be the second time the Macgregor has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WEST MAITLAND, Wednesday.—A man named Harry Atkinson was injured by a fall of coal at the East Greta Colliery, and had his leg broken. He was brought into town and attended to. He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The mail packet Macgregor is again in trouble. She was preparing to get away for Eucla, when she grounded, swung round, and was beached a hundred feet from the shore. She drove…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two accidents were attended to at the Prince Alfred Hospital, which were due to falls from public vehicles. One of them, the case of a boy named Robert…
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