Six Officers Drowned
Sir naval officers attached to the battleship Collingwood were drowned in Bantry Bay, Ireland…
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Effects of the Rain in Other Places. Rough Weather on the Coast—railways Injured. Sydney
The hard easterly gale which blew along the coast yesternight shows very little sign of abating and this morning a heavy sea was running at various bar harbours rendering navigation dangerous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Narrabri. a Fatal Gun Accident
Another fatal gun accident occurred to-day, resulting in the death of a farmer named William Harris, who recently took up a settlement lease at Merrywinbone. Deceased was examining a rifle…
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An accident occurred it is believed early yesterday morning to a well-known resident of this district Joseph Simpson, who passed through Warren on Sunday with sheep intending to truck same…
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Dr. Alexander Kethel, M.B., of Sydney, died suddenly at the Royal Hotel, Coonnmble, on Saturday morning. An inquest was held, when a…
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From the earliest days to theatrical representation, there have frequently been [?]acted unrchearsed effects of a sometimes tragical and sometimes ludicrous character. The…
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Eighteen months hard is the sentence John Barlow received in Sydney for cycle stealing. The Rev. E. Grimm, Presbyterian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Strange Fatality at Merce. Moree
A strange fatality was reported to the Merce police yesterday. A man named Hilton Pitman, aged about twenty-one years, who left town on Wednesday, was found dead yesterday in a sitting…
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John Stevens and Frederick Wythes were placed upon their trial at the Criminal Court to-day upon a charge of having feloniously slain John. Beech It appeared the accused were driver and fireman…
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On Saturday night at Milton (Q.) a man named Thomas Maher was run over by a cab and killed. By a blasting accident at Broken…
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A boy named William [?]apham whose right arm was badly crushed in a dough roller at the Argyle Biscuit Factory yesterday died in the hospital to-day…
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A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest to-day on the bod of the boy, William Lapham, who died yesterday from the effects of injuries received while employed in a biscuit…
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The rebelsin Bechuanaland attacked the British position at Gamasiep, but were badly repulsed. For setting fire to haystacks, Gilbert…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bicycle Accidents
Last Tuesday night, while Mr A. Partridge, of the public school, was riding his bicycle along one of the streets of the town, he encountered two horseman coming…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Shocking Accident
A YOUTH named william Lapham, aged 14, died on Thursday at the Sydney Hospital from injuries received the-previous day at the…
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M. Woolfert, an inventor, and an assistant, were testing an serial machine at Berlin at a height of 3000 feet, when the balloon fired and the car fell in a biazing mass, the aeronauts being killed…
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An excursion train has been derailed at Wells-hampton, and ten persons killed and twenty-five injured…
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A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest on the body of Walter Stainner, a wharf labourer, who was killed on Saturday night while engaged discharging cargo from the steamer…
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A district shock of earthquake was experienced at Moss Vale on Saturday evening. It lasted about five seconds. Two men were sentenced to 12…
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Last Saturday, while a lad, named Georgo Hookor, 18 years of age, was driving on foot a dray containing firewood, he accidentally stumbled over a stone and…
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