We give two illustrations of a railway accident or a more appalling nature, and productive of more serious results, than even the Jolimont disaster, which occurred on the Hawthorn line of railway on the afternoon of December 2. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 2,955 wordsMELBOURNE was thrown into a state of excitement on the night of December 2 by the occurrence of a deplorable railway accident, the disaster happened on the Hawthorn line, near the Picnic station, at 23 minutes past 6 o'clock in the evening. It was no ...
Article : 583 wordsTHERE are no periods of the year so interesting to the observer of nature, or to the lover of the picturesque, as those when a season is passing and giving place to its successor. The influence of change is discernible in a hundred different ways, if these ...
Article : 1,450 wordsAn event of great scientific interest and importance—the transit of the planet Venus across the sun's disc—will take place as we go to press. Arrangements for observing the transit have been made at all the Australian observatories which are favourably ...
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