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MARYBOROUGH (Q.), Wednesday. -- A serious explosion of fire damp occurred in the Torbanlea colliery, Burrum, near Maryborough, this afternoon, and five miners who were dreadfully burnt…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An explosion occurred to-day at the Torbanlea Colliery, near Maryborough. Five men were severely burnt, and the lives of four are despaired of. The particulars to bund show that Arclnbsld…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yesterday an explosion occurred at the Torbanlea Colliery, near Maryborough, injuring live men, Archibald Houston, his son, John Houston, Fred Griggs, John Johnson, and M…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINGLETON, Wednesday. -- Yesterday morning the body of a man named George Becker, aged 46 years, was found in the main road near Mitchell's Flat. From the evidence adduced at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Warren (16), residing in Drummoyne, was working at a machine in a blacksmith's shop at Balmain yesterday, when his left arm caught in the cogwheel, indicting severe injury to the lower part. At…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ARMOUR AND WIFE V. PARKES. The hearing of the suit was continued before Mr. Justice Cohen and a jury of four, in which the plaintiffs were William Armour, fruiterer, and his wife. Mary Ann…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the action brought in the Vice Admiralty Court by the owner, captain, and crew of the ketch Lansdowne, against the owners of the steamship Currajong, to recover damages for the loss of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Deputy City Coroner (Dr. Todd) held an inquiry at the South Sydney Morgue yesterday touching the death of James Francis Bray, who was drowned at the Quay the previous night. The facts of the case were stated…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →About 6.30 this morning Senior constable Bultitude, of the Water Police, who was in charge of the launch Biloela, found the body of a woman, fully clothed, floating on the water, in Elizabeth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The hearing of a number of consolidated suits by the owner, captain, and crew of the ketch Lansdowne to recover about £2000 from the owners of the steamship Currajong in respect of a collision in Sydney Harbor,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday Afternoon.—Thomas Ashton, a miner, residing at Toronto, met with a serious accident whilst at work in the Pacific Co-operative Colliery, Teralba, to-day. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DUNGOG, Thursday.--Last night a miner named Eddington had his hands blown off and was otherwise seriously injured through the explosion of a charge in a goldmine at Upper…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The hearing of the suit was continued before Mr. Justice Cohen and a jury of four, in which the plaintifis were William Armour, fruiterer, and his wife, Mary Ann Armour, and the nominal defendant on behalf of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the Coroner's Court, Chancery-square, yesterday, Mr. J. O. Woore (City Coroner) resumed the inquest into the circumstances connected with the disaster which occurred at the Sydney Harbor Collieries at Balmain on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The City Coroner, Mr. J. C. Woore, held an inquiry at the South Sydney Morgue yesterday touching the death of Fanny Haynes (30), a domestic servant, whose body had been found…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The officials of the Sydney Harbor Colliery Company have already put into force the suggestions made by the Coroner's jury in the investigation of the recent disaster at the company's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A miner named Thomas Ashton, lately residing at Toronto, Lake Macquarie, died in the Wa[?]send Mining District Hospital to-night from the effects of injuries received yesterday at the Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Yesterday the body of a woman named Fanny Haynes, aged 30, was found floating in the harbour at Elizabeth Bray. It was taken to the South Sydney Morgue, where the City…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A shocking fatality occurred this morning in Block 11 (open cut) Proprietary mine. Shortly after 9 o'clock two men, William Whittaker and a mate, were busy putting in a hole preparatory to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →On Saturday afternoon an accident occurred at the Sydney Harbour Collieries Company's works, Balmain, which resulted in the immediate death of five men and slight injury to another. The works are…
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