Beaten with Chain Farmer Seriously Injured. Melbourne
Detectives are investigating an attack on Ernest Leslie Harton, farmer, at Yarram Gippsland, who this afternoon was found with 16 wounds, apparently…
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Accidents, 1931
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Two Fishermen Drowned at Botany Bay Gallant Rescue Effort. Sydney
Two fishermen were drowned at Botany Bay this afternoon, when a ketch overturned in a squall. The victims were Sydney Walker, 32,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Waded Into Sea Beach Party Sensation Man Drowned or Taken by Shark. Sydney
During a party held at Maroubra Beach about 3.30 this morning Samuel Rosenthal 38, canvasser, waded partly clothed into the surf. Suddenly Rosenthal was…
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Isabel Fleming, of Lake street, North Lismore, one of the flood refugees who found shelter at the High School, sustained slight concussion, bruises and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →49 Missing Japanese Steamer Wrecked Collision in Fog. Tokio
The steamer Porthos, when leaving Kobe last night, collided in a snowstorm with the Kikusul Maru, bound for Shanghai. The latter sank, and 49 passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Earthquake's Toll 212 DEAD, 1950 Injured. London
In a telegram to the Dominions Secretary, the Governor-General of New Zealand, Lord Bledisloe, states the total number cf earthquake deaths ascertained so…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Severe Collision Police Car Struck and Overturned Seven Persons Injured. Melbourne
Five policemen and two civilians were injured, two seriously, when a police wireless patrol car collided with a sedan motor car at the corner of Bay and New…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. G. Joyce Drowned Below Thora
Mr. George Joyce, snr., of Thora, was drowned in the Bellingen River at a crossing about midway between Thora and Bellingen on Monday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jockey Guinane Injured. Sydney
The well-known pony jockey, G. Guinane, was seriously injured in a fall at Kensington racecourse this morning. He had given a horse barrier practice,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Canoe Founders Two Boys Drowned Tragedy at Iluka
Two boys were drowned at Iluka yesterday in particularly sad circumstances. At about 2.30 p.m., Bonnie Spring, 16, son of the ferryman at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dredge Sinks Off Tasmanian Coast Master Believed to Be Drowned Launceston
The master of the dredge Nereus, is believed to have been drowned when the vessel sank to-day off the Tasmanian coast near Los Head. The rest of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miraculous Escape. Accident at Jetty
How James Mc[?]nerney, a young man employed on construction work at the Shell Oil. Co.'s new depot at the Jetty, escaped death on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Iluka Tragedy Two Boys Drowned Funeral of the Victims
Quite a gloom is cast over the Lower Clarence by the sad drowning accident of two boys near Iluka, on Thursday afternoon, as reported yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →20 SECONDS Dredge Sinks Like Stone Captain--mate Drowned Big Sea Smashed Vessel. Melbourne
Later particulars of the foundering of the dredge Nereus in Bass Strait show that Captain Keith Fitzgerald and his mate, Harold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Seaman Killed Accident at Bellingen. Bellingen
A fatal accident occurred at Urunga, at 9.30 this morning, when a seaman named Ernest Lasco, from the s.s. Nambucca, was struck on the head with an empty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Inquests Tragedies at Lismore Man Drowned Under House. Lismore
Three inquests were held at Lismore on Saturday morning. Edith Marion Charlton, 17, was drowned at Clunes, and was found by her father,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Upper Orara a Collision
A collision occurred on Tuesday afternoon between an Oldsmobile car driven by Mr. Les Watt and a small Citroen driven by Mr. T. Seccombe. The accident…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drowning Man Torch Seen Under Water. Sydney
George Thrist, 35, of Branxton, endeavored to step from one boat to another, when both were being towed by a launch oh the Williams River, at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nearly Drowned. Incident at Surf Carnival
The trouble in getting the buoys out for the surf carnival at Parka Beach on Sunday, owing to the heavy seas, nearly, resulted in tragedy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Overturns Man Killed, Another Injured. Gundagai
Jack Dalton, a young man, was killed and a man named Dunn seriously injured, when a motor car somersaulted on the Sydney road about 12 miles north of…
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