Collision at the Heads
A collision occurred at the Heads last night between the pilot steamer Captain Cook and the steamer Ferndene. The latter vessel, which was entering the Heads at the time…
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A collision occurred at the Heads last night between the pilot steamer Captain Cook and the steamer Ferndene. The latter vessel, which was entering the Heads at the time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Captain Creer, of the pilot steamer Captain Cook, reports leaving Watson's Bay at 10.30 p.m. to put a pilot on board a steamer supposed to be the Gymeric from Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The secretary of the Marine Board has received a report from Captain Creer, master of the pilot steamer Captain Cook, giving particulars of a collision which occurred at sea last evening…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE extract the the following from the Muswell-brook correspondence of the Maitland Mercury, February 19:—One of the outlying portions of the parish of St…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A mining fatality was reported from Copper Hil[?] a few miles from Molong, this afternoon. A young lad named George Williams was overcome by foul air. The boy was being lowered down a shaft,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Messrs. Howard Smith and Sons' steamer Boveric, from Sydney to Newcastle, this morning lost her propeller, and was towed in here. The mishap, occurred off Catherine Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE. Friday. -- Messrs. Howard Smith und Sons' cargo steamer Boveric, the largest vessel in the purely Australian trade, was towed into Newcastle Harbor this morning by…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →BROKEN-HILL, Friday. -- On the 22nd of last month the three-year-old child of Mary Downes, who was housekeeping for George Cranston at Bancannia swamp, Milparinka-road, was burned…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A five-year-old girl named Mary Haves residing in 2 Clarence-lane, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital yesterday evening suffering from a fractured right leg. She was playing on a fence at Blackeath, when she fell off,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A youth named Fredk. Alfred Ives, 15, who had lived with his parents at 448 King-street, Erskineville, was drowned ln a waterhole at St. Peter's yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Following is a report of a most extraordinary affair that occurred at Frankfort Kenucky, on January 16, as wired from the town mentioned:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Markwen, who is buying horses for the Imperial Government, visited Newcastle this afternoon, for the purpose of making arrangements for the shipment of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A miner named James Roach was killed by a fall of coal in the Stockton colliery to-day. At the time of the accident the unfortunate man was engaged removing a sprag. He had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Further particulars regarding the collision at the Heads on Friday evening, between the pilot steamer and another vessel, whose name could not be ascertained, go to show that the steamer Ferndene…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 10 o'clock on Saturday morning a boy, 15 years old, named Frederick Alfred Ives, who resided with his parents at No. 448 King-street, Newtown, went to a waterhole near Mitchell-road, St. Peters, for the purpose…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A married woman, named Alice Jones (45), dressmaker, residing at 71 Foveaux-street, was leaving Grace Bros, shop, Broadway, Glebe, shortly after 9 o'clock on Saturday night, when she unwittingly became the centre of a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A boy named Frederick Alfred Ives, 15, who resided with his parents at No. 448 King-street, Erskineville, was drowned in a waterhole at St. Peters on Saturday. Deceased, who could swim,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Further particulars regarding the collision between the pilot steamer Captain Cook and the steamer Ferndene, which took place on Friday night, show that the accident occurred while the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SINGLETON, Saturday.—Lieutenant Dangar, of Singleton, has received a letter from Lieutenant Allen, who went to the front with the First Australian Contingent, stating that the day after…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A miner named James Roach, employed at the Stookon Colliery, and lately residing at Strandstreet. Stockton, was killed at about 9.45 yesterday morning by a sudden fall of coal. It appears that…
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