Motor Cyclist Injured
Colliding with a motor car at the corner of Lawes and George streets, East Maitland, last night, Peter Hanks. 22, of Victoria Lane, East…
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Football Benefit for Injured Players Carnival at Muswellbrook
To provide funds to make the financial burdens of injured footballers a little lighter, a carnival is being…
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TOUCHING UPON THE DEATH OF VINCENT KEITH LOCKREY (36), WHO MET HIS FATE ON THE NEW ENGLAND HIGHWAY, TWO MILES FROM SCONE, ON THE NIGHT OF 16th JULY LAST, THE DISTRICT CORONER, MR. W. T. SEAWARD HELD AN INQUEST AT SCONE COURT…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sensational Development Soviet Spying Case. Woman Injured in Escape Attempt. Moves in U.S. and Moscow. New York
Amid a series of swift political developments in the sensational Soviet spying case, Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina, a Russian woman teacher who, it was…
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Ronald Burgess, 25, of Paxton, a wheeler at Millfield colliery, injured his right foot during the week when it was jammed between a skip and a…
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Alan Sarri, 22, of Peden's Hotel had an unusual accident this morning when he broke his leg running away from a quantity of burning petrol…
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Struck by a waggon while at work at Aberdare Central Colliery yesterday, Jack Skelton, 39, skip repairer, of Congewai Street, Aberdare, received…
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CESSNOCK, Friday. — Raymond Roddenby, 24, Congewal street, Aberdare, a shiftman, employed at Pelton colliery, received…
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On Monday night a lorry driven by Mr. Laurence Croft, of Bungwahl, turned over on Bullahdelah cutting, 5½ miles south of Bullahdelah. Mr…
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CESSNOCK: Charled Passfield 53, of Kearsley a fifter at Abermain No 1 colliery, tell when entering the cage and…
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NEW YORK, August 16. —At least six were killed and 180 injured in a mysterious blast that rocked the business district of Reno (Nevada) yesterday. The explosion is reported to have been torched off by fire Reno authorities said: “The…
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Three people were injured when a car overturned near Branxton on Saturday night. Injured wore:…
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CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—Harold Phipps, 21, Neath Road, Cessnock a shunter employed at [?]colliery, received an…
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When the motor-cycle on which they were travelling skidded in loose gravel near the Martin's Creek turn-off on Sunday, Kenneth Pugh, 21, of…
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Charles Passfield, 53, of Kearsley, a fitter at Abermain No. 2 colliery, fell on Saturday afternoon when entering the cage, and suffered a lacerated…
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At 5.30 a.m. on Monday last Mr. R. Osborn's 'bus overturned half a mile north of Scone. The 'bus, driven by Mr. L. Allan, was returning from…
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Twenty-four people in a boat on the Cauvery River, Madras (India) panicked and capsized the boat when a Cobra came…
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Darrell Baker, 33, of Allandale-road, Cessnock, an employee at Turner's sawmill, received a laceration over the right eye when he was struck by a…
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The bus owned by Mr. Reg. Osborne, of Muswellbrook, which left the highway half a mile from Scone on Monday morning. Returning from Morec with a team of footballers, none were seriously injured, although the bus was extensixely damaged…
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BRISBANE, Saturday. — Two boys were killed and four girls injured last night when a big lorry and utility truck collided…
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