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A peculiar shooting accident happened at Sorrento this morning. A young man named John Main, who was on a holiday visit, and had spent most of his time shooting and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.--At Sorrento this morning. John Main, a young man who was visiting the district, was accidentally shot dead. Main was camping out at Sorrento, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A telegram from Melbourne states that at Sorrento on Thursday a cyclist named John Main met with a remarkable death. Main was camping out at Sorrento, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A disastrous buggy accident is reported from Berriedale, in which a Mrs. Gilchrist was killed, and two other persons were injured. It appears that a Mr. Gilchrist, his wife, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A boy named Joshua Preston, 8 years of age, who resided at 2 Alexander-street, Alexandria, was drowned in the harbour this morning, off the military jetty at Camp Cove, near Watson's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Carrington memorial fund totals £70 17s. At the "Examiner" office £3 14s has been received. MELBOURNE, Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As Mrs. C. H. Williams was driving in a buggy down a steep hill at a creek she alighted to lead the horse. Whilst she was doing so the animal stumbled, and Mrs. Williams was thrown heavily to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Strangely romantic things are happening in this old world even at this time of day. King O'Keefe, the South Sea Island millionaire, disappeared a couple of years ago, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tine British Board of Trade have recently issued the usual statement of the toll in human life and valuable property which the sea demanded of the British mercandile marine…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.--It has bean ascertained that Francis Golley, the young helmsman who was killed at his post, on the steamer Coogee, was 28 years of age, and a native of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →COOMA, Friday.— A fatal accident occurred near Berriedale. A man named Gilchrist, with his wife and family of three children, was driving in a covered waggonette, when the horses…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While attempting to board a railway tram in Pitt-street, at the Market-street intersection, shortly after 2 o'clock this afternoon, a waiter named Joseph Alexander Thomas fell and had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sad fatality occurred on Monday evening last, when Cecil Govt (11), son of Mr and Mrs Roland Gow, of Union-road, Penrith, was drowned in the Nepean River,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A sad drowning accident occurred shortly before 10 o'clock yesterday morning at Camp Cove, near Watson's Bay. A boy named Joshua Preston, 8 years of age, was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A sad drowning accident occurred at Watson's Bay yesterday which cast a gloom over the large number of picnickers congregated about that favorite holiday resort…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →About 6.20 p.m. yesterday in Stark's grocery shop in Walker-street, North Sydney, there was an escape of gas. Two employees named Bert Fisher and Herbert Saddy went…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Captain Frank Newton, aide-de-camp to the state Governor (Sir Herbert-Chermside) was examining a loaded gun to-day when it exploded. He was seriously injured, and is…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →ABOUT 6 o'clock on Friday morning, 25th ultimo, a boiler explosion occurred at Collingwood Woolscouring Works, causing c[?]n[?]ider[?]ble damage- to a portion of the wor[?]s and injuring two of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →While attempting to board a railway trim in Pitt-street, at the Market-street intersection, shortly after 2 p.m., yesterday, a waiter named Joseph Alexander Thomas fell and had…
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