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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 8 →An action was brought by Alexander Armstrong and his wife, Margaret Armstrong, to recover £1000 damages from the Railway Commissioners for injuries received by the female plaintiff in a railway accident, said to be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Deputy City Coroner (Dr. U. H. Tedd) ini[?]ted an inquest at the Coroner's Court yesterday into the circumstances surrounding the death of William Douglas, was died in the Sydney Hospital the previous day from…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In consequence of certain alleged [?] information furnished them in connection with the drowning of an 8-year-old boy named Arthur Rushley in Leichhardt Bay on Friday last, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A distressing fatality has occurred at Woodstock, Southland. A boy named Fotheringham fell into a waterhole about 5ft. deep. His sister jumped in to his resoue, but sank in the mud…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A man named Jasper Simpkins, a ganger on a section of the new Warburton railway works, was soverely burned by the explosion of a keg of blasting powder to-day. Simpkins lighted the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WELLINGTON, Tuesday.—On Sunday afternoon a serious sulky accident happened to Mrs.Adamson, wife of a farmer, on the Wunlumanroad, as she was proceeding to town. When…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ARMIDAL. Tuesday.—This morning the governor belt on an engine at Notts's Armidale Sawmill broke, causing the engine to tear away at terrific speed before it could be stopped. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An accident which happened up Bombala way is one which has been rather common in the Australian colonies, and the sufferers have not always escaped with their lives, as the man did…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A serious accident happened at noon to-day to an old resident named Jacob Dallinger. He was driving some young homes over the river from Victoria between Albury and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →This morning the men on the steamer Warrnambool, lying at the Central Wharf, were engaged lowering a vessel, containing about five gallons of water, into the hold, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thomas Pender, 35, laborer, residing at Brennan-street, Leichhardt, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital yesterday forenoon, baring been conveyed there by the Civil Ambulance Brigade, suffering from fracture of several…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Deputy City Coroner (Dr.R.H.Todd) yesterday continued the inquest into the circumstances connected with the death of William Douglas, an enginedriver and fireman, who received [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shortly before midnight two young lads were passing Murphy's Hotel, at the corner of Stephen-street and Missenden-road, Camperdown, and being surprised to see the bar…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The inquest into the circumstances connected with the death of William Douglas, who died at Sydney Hospital on Monday from injuries received at the Federal Portland Cement Company's works, Druitt-street, on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yesterday morning tho circumstances surrounding the death of William Douglas, aged 38, an engine-driver, lately residing at 33 Ferry-road, Glebe, which occurred at the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A shocking blasting accident occurred this morning at the Smith mine, resulting in the death of two miners, William H. Barkley and Alfred May, both being terribly mutilated. Barkley was killed instantly,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Deputy City Coroner concluded an inquest on Wednesday concerning the death of William Douglas, who died in the Sydney Hospital on Monday from the results, it is stated, of having From Messrs. James H. Lee and Son, of Capetown, South Africa, we have received a new and very complete map of the seat of war in South Africa, For perfection of detail and clearness in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yesterday afternoon a Chinaman named Ah Chong, who gives his residence as George-st. North, was attempting to alight from an electric tram, while in motion, near Circular…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BROKEN-HILL, Wednesday.--One of those unaccountable occurrences which render the occupation of a miner risky happened in the South Mine about 1 o'clock this morning. An…
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