Appeal for subscriptions for the 'comfort' of John Onions 'aged 64 years, who was for many years a distributor of the Sydney Newspapers ...[who] had the misfortune on the 31st October last, of falling into the undefended excavation in Pitt-street ... thereby breaking his thigh and dislocating the hip bone ; in consequence of which he ... is ... incapable of following his occupation.'
