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YOUNG, Thursday.--A very sad drowning fatality, which resulted in the loss of two lives, occurred here yesterday evening. Five young fellows, named Miller, Coutts, Barry Arnold, Starr,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →COOLAMON, Thursday.—Mr. Con. Dyring, the well-known Riverina merchant trader, had a narrow escape from drowning on Tuesday. He drove his horse to a dam in a sulky, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the County Court some time ago a lad named Ritchie recovered £1000 damages from the Railway Commissioner through the smashing of his lingers in a railway gate at South…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →YOUNG, Thursday.—Last night about 7 o'clock It was reported that two young men had been drowned in the reservoir about half a mile out. The names of the men are Arnold Starr and John…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News has been received bf a terrible At- larbic disaster off the north-western coast of Spain. The steamer Borghese foundered off Cape…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The death took place [?] the Parramatta District hospital on Friday[?]ning (December 29) of Mr. William Charles [?], stationmaster at Flemington, a gentle[?] well and favorably…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MOREE, Thursday.—Thos. Rice, an express carrier, while on the road with a waggonette and five horses, got down to rectify the harness of one of the leaders, which was tangled in the traces,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon an electric line-repairer, named William Bishop, 38, employed in the Railway Electrical Department, and residing at Pearl-street, Surry Hills, met…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Amongst the many ways in which some sections of the public usher in the New Year with noise is the time-honored custom of firing off guns, pistols, etc. A party of the residents of Rookwood…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late on Wednesday night a report was received of a coach accident between Spring Bay and Campania. This morning a special train sent out from Hobart brought…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A sad death by accidental shooting occurred on Tuesday evening, the Rev. Johu Fitzgerald, a Roman Catholic priest, being the victim. The reverend gentleman, who had been in a delicate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A man named Win. Bishop, employed as an. electric line repairer, met with a very serious injury yesterday afternoon. He was at work nearly opposite the railway station, when his hand…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Bishop (38), electric lino repairer, residing in Pearl-street, Surry-hills, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital yesterday afternoon, suffering from a severely fractured skull. He…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Early in the present year the quinquennial Conference of the international Prison Congress will take place at Brussels. And in view of that event a preliminary…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, January 5.—A railway disaster is reported from Alsace. The Frankfort express came into collision with another train at Bischweiler, sixteen miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A railway disastor is reported from Alsace-Lorraine. The Frankfort express came into collision with another train at Bischweiler,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, Friday.--A railway accident, resulting in the loss of several lives, occurred in Germany yesterday. The Frankfort express collided with another…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A shocking fatality occurred this afternoon, a boy of 4½ years, named Herbert Franklin, being killed by a steam tram motor. The injuries, from the effects of which the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Baltimore, November 25.—His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons returned to Baltimore from his trip to New Orleans last Friday afternoon. In company with Rev. Father Boland, of St. Vincent's Church,and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Thursday last, at about 6 p.m., Mr F B Wilshire, P.M., while journeying from Richmond to Windsor, met with a very serious accident. He was driving down the…
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