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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

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Sulky Accident. Three Girls Injured. Bolt at Alumny Creek

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1923 · page 2

Noticing, that the winkers were not secured on the head of a pony. in a sulky in which three girls were about to go for a drive from Mr. W. Clark's residence,…

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Car Overturns. Six Persons Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1923 · page 3

A motor car containing James Robinson, of Kirrib[?] Point, and five other persons was proceeding along the Car rington Drive at National Park this…

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Four Injured. Another Motor Smash. Car Strikes Tree Stump. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1923 · page 3

Through the failure of the steering gear a motor car containing four male passengers which was travelling along the Windsor road at Kellyville, near…

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The Courts. a Revolver Duel. Police and Burglars. Constable and Two Men Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1923 · page 3

While on duty at St. Peter's early this morning Constable Wyley had occasion to chase two men. Two shots were fired at Wyley, who returned the fire,…

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Accident at South Grafton

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1923 · page 2

While Mr. Peter McFarlane of South Grafton, was measuring logs at South. Grafton on Saturday morning one of the logs rolled on the measuring stick…

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Pony Drowned. Remarkable Accident. Driver Jumps Clear

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1923 · page 3

A remarkable accident resulting in the drowning of a valuable sulky pony occurred at Doubtful Creek in the Kyogle district…

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Sister Olive Injured. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1923 · page 2

Sister Olive, who was kicked by Eurythmic prior to the start of the Essendon Stakes at Flemington on Saturday, was slightly lame this morning but…

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Accident at Coff's Harbor. Workmen Paid Off. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 March 1923 · page 4

A man named Curran met with an accident at the breakwater on Monday. He was helping to lift a piece of stone when it slipped and cut his arm badly,…

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Floods in France. Many Cattle Drowned. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 5

Serious floods in France are causing great anxiety. Most of the rivers are still rising, and the Loire and its tributaries have overflowed. Thousands of…

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Nightwatchman Injured. Brutal Treatment of Old Man. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 5

Edwin Thompson was committed for trial at the Central Court on a charge of having maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm on John Datson, a…

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Torpedo Explodes. Accident on a Cruiser. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 March 1923 · page 5

The Admiralty announces that one naval rating was killed and four seriously injured in the explosion on the cruiser Coventry in the harbor at Gibraltar. The…

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Accident

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1923 · page 2

Mr. W. Mahoney and his son, while driving along the road the other day, met with an accident which might have turned out more seriously than…

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Fatal Collision. Man Dead, Woman Injured. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 5

Following the head-on collision between a motor car and a motor cycle at St. kilda last night the driver of the latter, a man named Jarrett, has…

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Fatality on Cruiser. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 5

While the Australian cruiser Sydney was on gunnery practice at Jervis Bay the officers' steward V. G. Stratton, aged 36, was found dead on deck with a gunshot…

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Aeroplane Crashes. Pilot and Captain Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 5

While the big Vickers Vulcan aeroplane has landed safetly at Bourke the Bristol plane which is accompanying it on [?] flight from Melbourne to Longreach, in…

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Cream Separator. an Accidental Invention

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 6

The separator was an accidental invention, which came as a research result of centrifugal action. In 1886 (says the "New Zealand…

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Another Troop Train Collision London

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 March 1923 · page 3

Reuter's Berlin correspondent states that forty French soldiers are reported killed and many as being seriously injured in a collision between a troop train and…

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Two Boys Drowned. Mother Bravely Attempts Rescue. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 March 1923 · page 3

Two boys, Maurice and Arthur McMahon, aged six and eight respectively, collapsed while swimming in a dam at the small arms factory, Lithgow. Their…

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Backed Into River. Horse Drowned at Maclean. Maclean

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 March 1923 · page 2

Mr. Don. McPherson had the misfortune to lose a valuable horse this morning. The horse, harnessed to a cart, was standing on the wharf while some…

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Drowned in Canal. Discovery of Missing Witness. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 March 1923 · page 3

The missing witness in the Morgan case, in which a man named William Morgan is under arrest on a charge of having murdered his mother, the wife of a butcher at…

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