Drowned in the Murray Near Wentworth
Olive Baker, a housemaid employed on Cowra Station on the Victorian bank of the River Murray, was drowned in the river on December 28,…
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Accidents, 1933
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Saved From Drowning Three Children In River. LAUNCESTON
P. Hancock, a listener, became so disgusted when the radio announced in Australia's first innings against England that Bradman had been…
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Further particulars have been made available concerning the death of Mr. Eric Hope Russell (32), a newly-married man, who was found…
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Badly injured when his horse fell and crushed him against a tree during a long bush trek, Mounted-Constable Robert Reid, of Newcastle…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Clarence Earl Fischer (23), an invalid pensioner, took a fit while swimming in the Clarence River, Grafton, yesterday,…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Two visitors from the country were drowned in Brisbane yesterday. They were Maris Neilson (60), of Bingara, near…
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After attacking and seriously injuring a woman at Kelso, near Bathurst, yesterday morning, a pet wallaroo charged her two sons when they…
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William Crooks (39) was drowned in Lake Macquarie yesterday. He was suddenly attacked by illness and collapsed and fell overboard from a…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.âWhile walking along the railway line near Asquith late last night, two railway employees were struck by a passing…
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David Craig had a narrow escape from drowning when his car crashed into a concrete drain at North Sydney last night during a heavy storm. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Allendale Fatality Inquest on Death of Mr. E. Russell
In the Coroner's Court this afternoon Mr. V. H. Wells, P.M., held an inquest into the circumstances connected with the death of Eric Hope…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fierce Affray at Samoa One Native Killed; Many Injured Wellington (N.z.), January 3
In a fierce affray between a large number of natives at Samoa many were injured, and one man who was struck with an axe died later. A…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Though l4 railwaymen were killed in 1932, the secretary of the Transport Commission says the department is powerless…
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Mr. J. Fox, a telegraph operator at the Central, Post Office, suffered a painful injury when he was struck in the mouth by a cricket ball while…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sleep-walking Dangers Emphasised Drowning, Poison, Falls Remarkable Escapes
The dangers of somnambulism or sleep-walking are emphasised by the recent death in England of a man who dreamed of a motoring…
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Mr. Frank Little, a well known farmer off Port Kenny, West Coast, was drowned at the entrance of Venus Harbor about 6 p.m. on New…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Michael Hopkins (38), sewerage laborer, was drowned in the Murray near Goat Island, Swan Hill, yesterday afternoon…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—"While playing cricket yesterday, Constable Norman Howard (26), of Clifton Hill, was struck over the heart by a ball…
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While a number of constables were swimming at the municipal baths at Grafton, one, Constable O'Brien, borrowed a dinghy to row to Susan…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Four persons were injured near the Albion railway station when a motor car crashed into a post and was wrecked…
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