Launch Capsizes Sevevn People Drowned. Allegations of Overcrowding Suva
Ovortaken by a squall in Viti Levu Bay, the Indian launch Sitaran, with 28 passengers, capsized. Seven were drowned…
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Explosion in Prison Quarry Guard and Prisoners Injured
The premature explosion of a gelignite charge in No. 4 quarry at Yatala (S.A.) labour prison on Wednesday afternoon resulted in severe injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cage Mishap Elrington Colliery Six Injured Cessnock
The electric winding engine at Elrington, which was the subject of a test case at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boy Drowned in Cook's River Body Recovered by Police Sydney
The body of a boy named Mark Smith, aged1 lO years, of Marrickville, whose clothes were found on thebank of Cook's River on Monday night, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Six Injured Prison Explosion
An explosion in a quarry at Yatala Prison (S.A.) late on Wednesday afternoon, caused injury t a guard and five prisoners…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motorist Fined Sequel to Collision NEWCASTLE, Friday
For not keeping his motor car to the left when driving along Railway street, Wickham, John Street, of Bull-street, Cook's Hill, was, ats…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Struck by Car M.L.A. and Wife Injured SYDNEY
Mr.W. F. Foster, M.L.A., for Vaucluse, and his wife, Mrs. Ada Foster, of Double Bay, were knocked down by a motor car at King's Cross last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland Fatality. Brisbane
Two men were killed and one man was seriously injured when a motor car proceeding from Brisbane to Tambourine Mountain left the road and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Drowning Risks Coroner's Comment Making Areas Safer
The need for swimming places, marked with flags for childreen was pointed out by the Deputy Coroner, Colonel Nash, when…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Six Injured Prison Explosion
An explosion in a quarry at Yatala Prison (S.A.), late on Wednesday afternoon, caused injury to a guard and five prisoners…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Seven Killed Cars Overturn Many Injured
During the week-end seven motorists were killed in accidents, and many others injured. The fatalities…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Girl Killed When Wall Crashes Three Injured
Burled beneath a pile of brick and masonry when a gust of wind blew down a large brick wall in Australia-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cage Mishap Elrington Colliery Six Injured Cessnock
The electric winding engine at Ellington, which was the subject of a test case at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Eleven Killed Buried in Rock Eighty Injured Calcutta, Jan, 28
Eleven were killed and 80 injured as the result of a rock burt in the Armur Gold Mines, in Mysore State yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Struck by Prop Hebburn No. 2 Accident WESTON
Mr. "Jack" Palmer, residing at Mayfield, Abermain, and employed at Hebbarn No. 9 as a shiftman, was struck on the head by a prop while…
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Returns relating to motor accidents in N.S.W. in 1930 show a decrease of 57 fatalities and 727 cases of injury…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cook Loses Leg Mining Accident LONDON. Jan. 19
A. J. Cook, the secretary of the Miners' Federation, had a leg amputated to-day. The amputation is the result of an accident in a coalmine…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Air Gun Accident
While playing with an air gun a few days ago some boys, who had made pellets o£ lead, were firing them off when one lad accidentally…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bell Injured
Gordon Bell, the well-known Maitland cricketer, was injured when fielding in the slips at the West Indies versus country Districts' team…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News in Brief Back Injured
Mrs. Thompson, 35, of Kitchener, near cessnock, had her back injured under strange circumstances, while swimming at the Wangi Wangi…
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