Sad Drowning Fatality
Mr Wal. Smith, of John-street, at 11.30 on Tuesday night received the sad news per telephone from Dungog that his niece; Miss Grace Wilkinson, had…
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Sad Drowning Fatality Miss Grace Wilkinson
On Tuesday evening last the news swept suddenly over the town that someone had been drowned in the Old Mill Dam. Townspeople on foot…
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An extraordinary accident occurred at Circular Quay, as a result of which James Watson M'Keown, 29, a resident of Welsley-street, Lindfield, met his death…
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A fall of coal in a pit at Helensburgh Colliery, Wollongong, on Monday afternoon, was responsible for two miners being buried. Hugh…
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On Wednesday evening James Watson M'Keown, aged 20, a clerk, living at Lindfield, was running across Circular Quay during a rainstorm, when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Transport Disaster. 600 African Natives Drowned. London
The War Office announces that the transport Mendi, with the final batch of South African native laborers on board, collided with another vessel during a think fog off the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Baby Boy Drowned. Tragedy at Woy Woy
Al Wagstaff Point, Woy Woy on Saturday the 17 months old baby boy of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Napier, of Great Northern road, Gladesville, was drowned. The family had been…
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By a fall of stone at the Coledale Colliery on Tuesday a man named Kelly was killed, the deputy, Richard [?] sustained in fracture of one of the legs, and had both his…
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Joseph Higgins, a youth, who is employed by the Caledonian Company, was working on an electric light pole on Monday when he slipped and fell some distance. He was taken…
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John Edwards it minor, was injured while working in the Ab ordaro Extonded mine on Tuesday. Edwards was moving it coal-cat-ting machine, whom he was jammed between…
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Harold Murphy, a boy employed by Mr.A.G Greentree, chemist, met with a painful accident yesterday afternoon. He was sit-ting on a large upturned jar washing bottles…
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An extraordinary accident occurred at Circular Quay, as a result of which James Watson M'Keown, 29, a resident of Welsley-street, Lindfield, met his death…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Colliery Fatality. Two Lives Lost
By a fall of stone at the Coledale Colliery on Tuesday a man named Kelly was killed, the deputy, Richard Griffiths, sustained a fracture of one of his legs, and had both his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Baby Boy Drowned. Tragedy at Woy Woy
At Wagstaff Point, Woy Woy, on Saturday, the 17 months old baby boy of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Napier, of Great Northern-road, Gladesville, was drowned. The family had been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Transport Disaster. 600 African Natives Drowned. London
The War office announces that the transport Mendi, with the final batch of South African native laborers on board, collided with another vessel during the thick fog off the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Accident at Sports
Prior to the commencement of St. Patrick's sports at Rutherford this afternoon, a serious accident happened. Mr. A.Forber horse Rock Lily, ridden by a boy named Noel…
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As Mrs Vickers, of Belford, with her daughter-in-law, Mrs Vickers, jun., and a grandchild, were coming into town yesterday afternoon they met with a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local News. Accident at Baroona
Mr James Gould, of Macquaric-street, was the sufferer in a very painful accident which took place at Baroona this week. He was on top of a load of corn…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Brutal Assault. Merchant Seriously Injured. Sydney
Henry Morehouse, fruit merchant, was the victim of a brutal assault in his office at the fruit markets, city, this morning. He was standing at the door of his office, when a man,…
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The boy who was seriously injured through a horse bolting at St. Patrick's sports on Saturday afternoon, and who was admitted to the Maitland Hospital, has been identified as Jack…
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