Fire at a Sydney Restaurant. Three People Injured
A fire broke out shortly after 10.30 on Friday in the Australia Restaurant in George-street, near Bridge-street, Sydney. The outbreak originated on the first floor,…
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Accident at Kurri Kurri. !A Useful Letter-carrier
On Monday, Mr. George Prisk, a young man in the employ of the Kurri Co-operative Society, met with a painful accident. Mr. Prisk was driving a horse…
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About half-past 12 o'clock on Saturday a man named Owen McDermott was drowned in a waterhole at a spot opposite the Heddon-Greta Colliery, about 600 yards on the west side of the railway…
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An electrician, named Harold Baker, was shockingly burned through coming in contact with a live wire at the electric lighting station, Balmain. He received about 5000 volts in his left leg, which…
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Two women and a little girl were crossing Pitt-street, Sydney, on Friday afternoon, when a motor car, driven by John Fenwick Hedley Paterson, struck and knocked them down. They were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →General Cable News. Accident to R.M.S. China. London, Dec. 18
The R.M.S, China, of the P. and O. line, timed to leave London yesterday, damaged her rudder in Tilbury Dock. The passengers were sent to Marseilles to join the…
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At the Kurri Kurri Courthouse, yesterday a magisterial inquiry was held before Mr. K. J. Cutcliffe, J.P., touching the death of Owen McDermott, who was drowned in a water-hole…
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An accident occurred that morning at the new Technical College building now in course of erection, but luckily nobody was injured. A large stone capping for one of the piers was being hauled…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to R.M.S. China. a Hawser Breaks. London, Dec. 20
The R.M.S. China, in leaving the berth at Tilbury Dock on Friday, who towed by two tugs. The hawser broke, causing her to come into collision with a pier hand, damaging her rudder. Repairs…
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On Friday evening last Charles Hit chins, a compositor, was bathing in the Hunter River, at a spot known as the "Loam Hole," when he dived, and struck…
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A terrible fatality occurred at Charl ton (Vie) on Monday during the pro grees of a bush fire. The house of Mr Seward, sea., had caught on fire, and he…
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A shocking fatality is reported from Sofala. Mrs Stevenson, 70 years of age. was preparing to drive for the mail, when her horse bolted, and, after going…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drowning Case at Heddon. Kurri Kurri
About half-past 12 o'clock on Saturday a man named Owen McDermott was drowned in a water-hole at a spot opposite the Heddon-Greta Colliery, about 600 yards on the west side of the railway…
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At the Kurri Knrri Courthouse on Monday a magisterial inquiry was held before Mr. E. J. Cuteliffe, J.P., touching the death of Owen McDermott, who was drowned in a water-hole…
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Two women and a little girl were crossing Pill-street, Sydney, on Friday afternoon, when a motor car, driven by John Fenwick Hedley Paterson, struck and knocked them down. They were…
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The R.M.S. China, in leaving the berth at Tilbury Dock on Friday, was towed by two tugs. The hawser broke, causing her to come into collision with a pier head, damaging her rudder. Repairs…
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Miss Booker, teacher at the Ten-Mile School, near Casino, and Miss Rapp, were out siding. Miss Booker felt her hair coming loose, and dropped the reins…
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The cable steamer Telconia, 1013 tons, rammed the P. and O. Company's steamer Nile, 6694 tons, bound for Calcutta, while anchored, in a fog off the Nore. The Nile returned to the docks badly…
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A shocking double fatality occurred at Ryde on Saturday morning, when Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, a widow, was roasted to death, and an old age pensioner named…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Surf Bather Drowned at Wyong. Rescue by Tartakover
A sad drowning accident occurred at Taggerah Lakes entrance at about 12.30 p.m. on Sunday. Henry Lewes (19), only son of A. H. Lewes, of the Lake View private…
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