Wife Sees Husband Drowned in Creek
SYDNEY, Saturday.—While swimming in Fairy Creek, Wollongong, yesterday, William John Nichols (22), of Wollongong, sank and over five…
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Accidents, 1937
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'Plane Hits Surf One Kided; 4 Injured Epic Trek by N.Z. FARMER
WELLINGTON [?] Saturday. — When a pilot attempted to land on the beach at Big Bay, near Milford Sound, a moth…
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day.—When a pilot attempted to land on the beach at Big Bay. near Milford Sound, a moth plane carrying five passengers…
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LONDON, January 1.— Mrs. Farnes, mother of K. Farnes, the English fast bowler, who is touring Australia with the Test team, was…
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LONDON, January 1. — Mrs. Farnes, mother of K. Farnes, the English fast bowler, who is touring Australia with the Test team, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidental Drowning River Tragedy At Cuthero Pitiful Drama at Inquest
A pitiful drama was enacted at Cuthero Station this morning when the coroner at Menindee (Mr.John Francis Cleary) conducted an…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.— One baby was killed and another injured in accidents. June Lever, 18 months, was killed…
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DEVONPORT (Tas.), Thursday.— The yacht Star, in which Manoel Fienti and a girl companion, Betty Brown, left here on Sunday, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News In Brief Roughrider Injured
ADELAIDE, Thursday.—Herbert Francis, aged 20, a roughrider at Gill's Circus, was treated at the Adelaide Hospital yesterday for an injury…
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A [?]ful drams was enacted at [?]athera Station Monday morning when the[?] at Menindes (Mr John Brancis Cleary) conducted an inquest…
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J. Lane, a miner employed at the South mine, was taken to the Hospital to-day suffering from injuries to the head, which he sustained when a stone…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.— Although continuous patrols of about 30 men are making a thorough search of three miles of coastline round the…
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The danger of allowing children to play with firearms was exemplified last week when a 14-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Child Drowned In Channel At Mildura
MILDURA, Wednesday—The parents of Moreen Pamela Tankard, the two-year-old girl who was drowned in a water channel adjoining their…
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Searchers found the body of Alfred Edward Bailey (57, engineer, of Ballarat, this morning washed up on the beach near Wild Dog Creek in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sinks On Maiden Trip 32 Drowned When Finnish Ship Breaks in Halves Vain Rescue Attempts In Darkness And Gales (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, January 12
ADESPERATE fight for life was made by the passengers and crew of the new Finnish motor ship Joanna Thordon amid a howling gale and in darkness early today, but it is believed that 32 lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Injured While Surfing Mr. Spooner Incapacitated Sydney
It has been revealed that while surfing at Shell Harbor during the week end, the Minister for Local Government (Mr. Spooner), who as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four Drowned in Ship Disaster Auckland (N.z.), Jan. 15
Four members of the crew of the scow Rangi, including Captain P. Paterson, were drowned, when the vessel foundered early this morning…
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Four members of the crew of the scow Rangi, including Captain P. Paterson, were drowned when the vessel foundered early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Brothers Drowned Near Shore Father Fails at Rescue Streaky Bay
WHEB a rising breeze ruffled the calm seas between Streaky Bay and Little Island about ll a.m. to-day two sons of Mr. George Bockelberg,…
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