Narrow Escape from Drowning
Fred Dennett, aged 11 years, living with his parents at Wollombi-road, Cessnock, was rescued from the creek in the vicinity of the Show…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accidents, 1927
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Drowning Mystery. Doubt As to Identity
A peculiar position has arisen over the identity of the youth who was drowned in the Hunter River half a mile north of the Belmore Bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Injured at Aberdare
Richard Jackson (34), employed as a pit-bottom hand at Aberdare Central colliery, was injured in an accident in the dummy cage at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Fatality. Driver Committed for Trial
The Sydney Coroner (Mr. H. F. W. Fletcher) concluded his inquiry concerning the death, on January 8, of Joan Lorraine Barron, aged 6 years,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Warialda Tragedy. Brother and Sister Drowned
Gwen and Gorden Skippen, aged 11 and 9 years respectively, children of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Skippen, of Warialda, were drowned in a creek…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Diver Drowned Air-pipe Severed. Darwin
A diver, Louis Romans, lost his life when the air-pipe of his diving apparatus was severed. It is believed the pipe was cut…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three Drowned. a Yarra Tragedy. Father's Ordeal
A tragedy occurred at Abbotsford (Vic.) on Friday afternoon, when' three children, who had been playing on the bank of the Yarra, were…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bridegroom's Mother Killed Four Others Injured
The mother of the bridegroom of a honeymoon couple was killed instantly on Wednesday when a motor-car which the bridegroom was driving, 12 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nurses Injured Ambulance Collides with Pole
Four nurses attached to the staff of the Coast Hospital were injured last night, when an ambulance waggon on which they were riding got out of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Constable Injured Motor Smash Near Wingham
Constable "Wright of Mount George, near Wingham, had a sensational experience" while driving a motor cal along the road between Wingham and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Drowned in Well. Rockhampton Man's End. Rockhampton
James Stewart, 37, slipped, and fell into a well in his yard. His body was recovered, but efforts at resuscitation failed…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Skull Fractured. Youth Injured in Boxing Contest
Stanley Copper, aged 18 years, living at Mayfield, was taken to Newcastle Hospital on Tuesday suffering from a probable fracture of the base…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Many Injured. Bus Caught Between Trams. Smash at Newtown
A Cronulla motor bus travelling along King-street, Newtown, towards Sydney on the night of the 20th inst was between two…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Car Crashes. Down Precipitous Hillside. One Killed: Two Injured
When a motor car crashed 80 feet through undergrowth and scrub covering a precipitous hillside of one of the fern gullies in the Selby district…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Kurri Accidents
A son of J. Ferguson, aged 12 years, cut his foot on glass, last evening. Eleven stitches were inserted. Robert Stubbs, 16 years, a clipper,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shooting Accident. Boy's Arm Blown Off
A shooting accident occurred at Clearfield, near Rappville. Two boys were out shooting when one noticed a kangaroo. He raised his…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Drowning Fatality. Inquest at Cessnock. Cessnock
At the Cessnock Courthouse this morning, the District Corner (Mr. G. Brown, J.P.), held an enquiry into the circumstances surorunding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy Drowned. a Toowoomba Fatality. Toowoomba
A twelve-year-old boy, named Cunnington, was playing with a number of others in DaIrymple Creek, when he slipped from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crossing Fatality
A man was killed and five people slightly injured when a motor car in which they were travelling was run down by a train at a level crossing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miner Injured
William Townsend, a minor, employed at Abermain No. 1 Colliery, while at work in the Gannon section of the mine on Saturday, was struck…
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