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A frightful catastrophe occurred at about 4 o'clock on Saturday at the works in connection with.the coalmine on the northern shore of Balmain, Sydney Harbor. Some mishap occurred to…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →At about half-past 1 o'clock on Friday after-noon a man named Stephen Palmer found the body of a boy floating in the water near the en-trance to the Leichbardt Canal. Information was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BROKEN HILL, Friday.—James Whittaker, aged 45, a widower, with a daughter living in Tasmania, was killed in Smith's open cut at the Proprietary Mine this morning. A mass of rock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →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 Armour, and the nominal defendant on behalf of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The bill introduced by Mr. E. A. Goulding, member for Devizes division of Wiltshire, providing for compensation for agricultural labourers who meet with…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Only one passenger is killed in 6,947,131 railway journeys, and only one in 568,402 is so much as injured, a new British Board of Trade Blue-Book tells us. During 1898 only 25 passengers were…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →The deputy city coroner held an inquiry at the South Sydney Morgue on Saturday concerning the death of Arthur George Rushby, whose body was found in the water near the Leichhardt Canal on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the South Sydney Morgue on Saturday the Deputy City Coroner, Dr. Todd, held aa inquiry into the death of Arthur Rushly, aged 8½ years, whose body was found in the bay at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The City Coroner (Mr. G. C. Martin, J.P.) conducted an inquest at Smith's Albion Hotel, Teralba, yesterday, on the body of a miner named Thomas Ashton, who died in Wallsend Hospital on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →James Kidney died in the hospital on Saturday night, from injuries received through being burled in a fall of earth whilst excavating gravel from the site of the new weir…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While a man named W. J. Brooks, residing at Victoria-street, Concord, was getting on or off an electric tram on Saturday at the corner of Pitt and George streets, just near the Civil Ambulance…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BALLINA, Saturday.—A serious accident hap-pened on Thursday afternoon to a man named Henry Jarrett, of Ballina. He had just mounted his horse, when the animal commenced bucking…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A sad drowning accident occurred yesterday afternoon at Lincke's Baths, Lady Robinson's Beach. A young man named Samuel Harris, 18, son of Mr. S. Harris, driver of the Rockdale tram, went for a swim in the baths…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This morning a laborer in the employment of the contractors for the wharf improvements at Darling Island met with a serious accident The man's name is Thomas Pender. He is 35…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While an excursion train was returing to Invercargill from Dunedin, after the departure of the fourth contingent, the engine was derailed on approaching the station in consequence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Banco yesterday, before Sir Frederick Darley, C.J., and a jury, Alexander Armstrong and, Margaret Armstrong, husband and wife, were the plaintiffs in an action to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A bad named Thomas Casey, 15 years of age in the employment of Messrs, Tooth and Co., brewers, was engaged yesterday in delivering goods at the Milson's Point Hotel, when, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday a man named Jas. Buckerldge, employed by Messrs. M'Arthur and Co., of King and Clarence streets, was knocked down and seriously injured by the fall of six rolls of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TENTERFIELD, Monday.--A serious accident occurred to Mr. W. H. Walker, manager of Tenterfield station and one of the trustees in the estate of the late Mr. Thomas Walker, Concord,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →COWRA, Monday.--A man named James Kidney, while engaged digging gravel in a pit near the river bank on Saturday afternoon, met with an accident which caused his death. Kidney was…
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