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It Is reported from New York that a terrible disaster has occurred in the State of Illinois during a flood in the Ohio River. The Ohio burst its. banks at Shawncetown,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When the timber-laden barque G. M. Tucker. which arrived on Saturday from Kaipara, was being lowed from Johnstone's Bay to the Kauri Timber Company's wharf in Blackwattle Bay this morning she took the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The infant daughter of Mr. William James, of Castle-hill died on Sunday night from the effects of scalds received during the day. Die child was 212 years of age. A verdict of accidental death was found, by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr Hammer, manager of the East End Market has just telephoned that six children have been drowned in a creek near Hackney. One body has been recovered, but no details…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--A terrible drowning fatality occurred, in Kent Town this morning, resulting in three children losing their lives. About 11 o'clock a number of boys who had been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Monday. Night--Particulars have been received front New York of a terrible disaster at Shawneetown, in the State of Illinois. The Ohio River burst its banks and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MANY cricketers of considerable experience aver that it is not possible for a bowler to curl the ball in the air. Others are just as positive that while such…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →According to the "Japan Herald's" account, while the P. and O. steamer B[?]rneo was leaving the harbour of Yokohama, outward bound, at about 6.30 a.m. on [?] day, February 20, she was run into on the starb[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →While engaged in the work of painting the Italian ship Australia, which is undergoing renovation at Mort's Dock, Balmain, a sailor belonging to the vessel fell from a staging…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Louis Anderson, a sailmaker on board the ship Scottish Moor, lying at M'Ilwraith's wharf, met with a painful accident to-day by falling down the hold, a distance of 30ft. He…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--This morning the police resumed dragging operations for the recovery of the body of Frank Chapman, aged 13, who, with two other boys, Harry Johns and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →While the police were dragging Torrens Lake this afternoon for the body of Frank Chapman who was drowned yesterday they discovered the corpse of a prepossessing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →While at work this morning fixing a new tip in connection with some quarrying work which is in progress at Glebe Island a labourer named Harry Forrester living at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A boating accident, which resulted in the death of Charles Schultz, a chairmaker, and one of his employees, named J. Smith, occurred yesterday on the coast, a little south of Botany Bay. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Botany has added another sod boating fatality to its already long list. Early this morning the information reached the local police that two men had been drowned in Botany Bay, and that only…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A little girl, named Florence Christina Robinson, received fatal burning injuries on Wednesday at Marrickville, through her clothes catching Are. The Infant went into a paddock at the back of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In connection with the drowning fatality at Botany, reported in yesterday's "Herald," it has been ascertained that a party of nine, consisting of Charles Shultz, of Darling-street, Glebe, and his son,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At the South Sydney Morgue this morning the City Coroner, Mr. J. C. Woore, opened an inquiry into the circumstances of the sad occurrence which resulted in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ADELIDE, Tuesday.— Thed heavy rains of last night and that morning can[?]od a drowing catnntrophe involving the death of six boys, near the Royal Oak, Hotel, Hackney.Several young boys were…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →On Sunday evening, Mabel James, a little girl, aged two years and seven months, the daughter of Mr. William James, of Castle Hill, was playing in the yard at her…
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