Crolls' Mill Destroyed in Spectacular Blaze Firemen Injured
The well-known sawmilling firm of J. Croll and Sons Pty. Ltd. suffered the total loss of their big mill at Dungog early on Tuesday morning…
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Nurse Seriously Injured in a Fall. Sydney
An elderly nurse was found badly battered, but still alive, at the bottom of a cliff near McElhone Street, Woolloomooloo, this morning. She is…
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Richard O'Neill, 47, Date Street, Ueston, a miner employed at Stanford Main No. 2 colliery was struck by a fall of coal to-day and suffered a…
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Messrs. Alexander and Basil McNeill, accompanied by Basil's wife and six children, one a baby in arms, and Mrs. Arthur Johnston, were returning…
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KEMPSEY Friday.—The third accident in four dares in which a man has lost his life through timber casuing fatal head…
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William John Barton (34), of Fiat road, Bolwarra, was taken to Maitland Hospital by Maitland District Ambulance last night…
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The week-end road toll in New South Wales and Victoria resulted in the death of eleven people, with many victims on the injured list. The most serious accidents involved the death of three…
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LONDON, Oct. 27.—Twenty-three persons were killed outright and one other—an Australian soldier—died in hospital when an Edinburgh-London Express, of a type similar to the “Flying Scotsman,” was derailed at Goswick,…
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Constable Lawrence McNeil, aged 21, son of Mr. Ernest McNeil, newsagent, of Denman, was killed In a road collision near…
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When he fell while climbing a fence yesterday, John Coleman, 7, of Russell-street, Horseshoe Bend. sufferd a fractured left…
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CESSNOCK, Tuesday.— William Foster, 28 of Greta Street, Aberdare a locomotive drover at Elrington colliery, received an in…
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Two pastoralists were killed in almost identical circumstances on their own properties at the week-end…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — The rider of a motor cycle was killed and the pillion rider seriously injured when the machine…
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Eric Galvin, 44, of Thornton, a miner at Bloomfield Main colliery, suffered injuries to his back and abrasions, with shock, when he was…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Frederick Curtis, 37, of Darlinghurst, was severely injured when he felt 50 feet to a concrete courtyard at St…
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NEWCASTLE, Friday.—Three men were injured at Burwood colliery when an underground locomotive on which they…
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"I do not know of a greater human problem confronting Parliament than that of road…
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The District Coroner,' Mr. W. S. Johnston, conducted an inquest an Wednesday at the Cessnock Courthouse…
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SINGLETON, Mon.—Two vehicles were badly damaged at the intersection of York and Bathurst-sts., Singleton, about 6.40 p.m. last night…
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Three persons were treated at a doctors surgery after having been involved in an accident at the intersection of Bathurst and York…
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