Accidentally Shot
WOLLONGONG. Saturday.—Claude Ferrett (16). of Glebe-road, Glebe, was dramatically rescued by the police and ambulance officers…
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Accidents, 1938
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Cyclist Injured
A motor cyclist was knocked from his machine by a motor car at the intersection of Rakow and Gypsum streets shortly before 6 p.m…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—When a car in which he was riding collided head on with a tram at New Farm two officers of the Qantas Empire…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—As the result of a boyish prank at a stone works at Auburn, Robert Lennox, 14, of Auburn, was admitted to St…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →King's Car in Collision (Special to "The Miner")
LONDON, April 24.—As the King's car was entering Windsor Castle yesterday another car driven by Lieutenant Levett, of the North Staffordshire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fishing Boats In Fierce Gale One Overturns and Youth Is Drowned Melbourne
THIRTY-THREE boats which put out from Brighton, Beaumaris, and Sandringham with fishing crews aboard were caught in a gale and duststorm which raged over Victoria yesterday, and were swept from the shore…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Ambrose Palmer, the Australian heavyweight champion, fractured his elbow last night in a fall sustained during…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Escape From Drowning Four Mens Plight SYDNEY
FOUR middle-aged men narrowly escaped drowning yesterday afternoon when their fishing launch was overturned by a large wave on a bar…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), May 5.— The 'plane which was carrying food and medical supplies to the settlers in the flooded Pakuratahi Valley crashed…
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SYDNEY Wednesday.—Roy Fogarty narrowly escaped drowning when he was trapped in the cabin of a sinking houseboat in Clontarf Bay…
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Men treated at the Hospital to-day were:—Phillip Ellendon, of 288 Piper-street, an employee of the Central mine; Sam Payne, of 463…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jockeys Killed In Race Ray Wilson of Victoria, and S. Kite of S.A. Higson Seriously Injured MORPHETTVILLE
ONE of the most sensational race smashes ever seen at Morphettville occurred in the Accession Handicap this afternoon when five horses were mixed up in a very bad smash, and another lost his rider at the post, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →55 Sheep Killed in Lorry Accident
The total number of sheep killed when Green Bros.' giant lorry overturned on the Wilcannia-road yesterday was 55. The lorry, a three-decker…
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That Britain has not solved the problem of reducing road accidents by enforcing a speed limit of 30 miles an hour, in built-up areas is shown by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collision in Argent-st. Lorry And Car
A COLLISION occurred between a motor lorry and a car at the corner of Argent and Sulphide streets at 11.30 o'clock this morning. The…
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William Norman Proud, the wellknown North footballer, to-day received a fractured big toe at the North mine. He will probably be out of the…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— Twenty-five sheep were killed outright and a number of others had to be destroyed when a motor car ran into…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—John Neville Argent (33), a builder was discovered to-day in a serious condition in the scrub at Fairfield having been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Man's Amazing Fortitude DROVE 60 Miles Injured Flying Doctor To Assistance
AMAZING fortitude was displayed by a man who was admitted to the Broken Hill Hospital yesterday after being attended at Tibooburra by the Flying Doctor (Dr. L. E. Odlum). The man is Mr. Charles Hotchen (39),…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man's Death Was Accidental Coroner's Finding In Fels Inquest
AFINDING of accidental death was given by the Coroner (Mr. R.Donaldson) in the Coroner's Court yesterday when an inquest was held in to the death of John Nicodemus Fels, who died in the Broken Hill…
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