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At about 10 o'clock this morning a collision occurred in Pitt-street, near Messrs. John M'Intosh and Sons', between two vehicles travelling in opposite directions, whereby, two persons were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The body of an unknown man was found in the water at Darling Harbor underneath the Pyrmont Bridge this morning. It was close to the Pyrmont shore. No marks of violence were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An accident-it is believed the direct outcome of the policy of too liberally besprinkling the street blocks with water occurred shortly after 11 o'clock to-day in Lower George-street. Mr. W…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News has been received to-day of the sad death of a boy named Madden, son of a roadman on the Mudgee-road. It appears that two brothers took an old gun down to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, February 24.-A Coastguard boat while fetching stores from the gunboat Alarm yesterday, capsized off Wells. Norfolk, and five of the crew were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Thursday.--A disaster involving the loss of several lives occurred yesterday on the Norfolk coast, near the village of Wells-next-the-sea…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WELLINGTON, Thursday.-A serious shooting accident happened at the Springs Station, Spicer's Creek, on, Tuesday afternoon, when, a boy named Michael Joseph Madden, 7 years of age, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE. Thursday.-Wm. Johnson, 15 years, met with an accident in King-street to-day. The lad, it seems, struck a match to light a cigarette, and dropped the match into a cask outside…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coastguard boat, while fetching stores from the gunboat Alarm, capsized off Wells, in Norfolk, and five of the crew were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →B0MBALA, Friday.-A lad named Errold Hyde, aged 11, had a narrow escape from drowning yesterday afternoon. Young Hyde, accompanied by several other boys, was swimming in the river, a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The incoming tide at the open beach at Coogee this morning lett high and dry on the sand the body of a young woman whose name so far is unknown. A resident named Rogers happened…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ON Monday last, as two men named John Leslie and W. Drury were being drawn up in a box to the scaffolding at St. Mary's Cathedral, the "dogs" which held the box-slipped, and the box and its occupants…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →An inquest was held at Spicer's Creek yesterday by the coroner (Mr. Robert Porter) on the body of the lad Michael Joseph Madden, who was accidentally shot dead by his elder brother on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The few people who were abroad in Queen's-square, opposite St. Mary's Cathedral, on Monday morning, were the witnesses of a sensational occurrence attended unfortunately with fatal results…
Continued on Trove, page 436 →Some time before noon today an accident occurred in Pitt street owing to the collision of two vehicles. It appears that a sulky in which Mr. James Boching,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Messrs. Wyndham Davis, superintendent of the mail branch of the General Post-office, and James Booking, superintendent of the Post-office stables, were injured yesterday in a vehicle collision in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Thomas Grimshaw, the man who was reported yesterday to have been admitted to the Sydney Hospital about 3 o'clock in the morning, died at the institution last evening. Grimshaw was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →WELLINGTON, Friday.--A fatal accident happened on Tuesday at Spicer's Creek to a lad named Michael Madden, aged seven, the son of Mr. James Madden, load maintenance man…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →About 1 p.m. on Thursday a lad named Charles Mackenzie, 17 years of age, residing with his parents at Gore-hill, met with an accident while driving a brick-cart. When near the junction of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →It may be taken for granted that nothing is further from the mind of the jockey, when riding a close-contested race, than the chances of an accident occurring. The frequency with which…
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