17 Bus Passengers Drowned
PARIS, Jan. 3.—At least 17 persone were drowned when a bus carrying two football teams struck a wall at the crossroads…
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Three Drowned In Boat Capsize
AUCKLAND, Monday.—Three men, including a father and son, were drowned when a sailing boat in which they were fishing in…
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SINGLETON, Tuesday. — Miss S. McDougall, of Harbord, Sydney, was injured when she was thrown from the pillion seat of a…
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A young sailor was shockingly injured to-day, when an allegedly stolen motor cycle he was riding crashed into a…
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 6.— Three were killed and 12 others escaped with minor injuries when a British-South American…
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A motor cyclist was injured when his cycle collided with a car at Rix's Creek on the New England Highway on…
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CAPE TOWN, Jan. 7.—Norman Mann, South African slow bowler who ha(l to leave the field during the test match with…
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A motor cyclist and his pillion rider were injured in a collision with a car at the corner of Lawes and High Streets, East Maitland late on Friday…
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During Xmas and New Year the Stroud Branch Ambulanceman, Mr. Neville Westcott, has been kept very busy in attending accidents and in…
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Attention is drawn by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales to the fact that road accidents last year…
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CESSNOCK, Monday.—A cyclist and a man he was doubling were injured when the cycle and a car collided on the Paxton-Millfield…
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A Singleton man suffered head injuries on Saturday afternoon when he fell from his bicycle in Elizabeth Street, a few yards…
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CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—William Lindsay, 22, of Wollombi-road, Cessnock, a loco driver at Cessnock No. 1 colliery,…
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A shooting accident occurred at the week-end when a youth was injured by a pearifle bullet. He is Darrel Mclnnes, of Satur, who was…
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A car and a car and trailer collided at the Caledonian Hotel intersection on George and Campbell Streets at six o'clock…
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A serious and most unusual accident occurred in a passenger bus en route to Port Macquarie on January 3, when the radiator cap blew off, the…
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Norman Jurd, 37, of Vincent street, Cessnock. a shiftman at Aberdare Extended Collery, received laceration to the index , finger of the left hand…
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A thirteen-year-old uncle and his nine-year-old nephew were injured in a bicycle accident in South-street, Telarah, to-day…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday.—Wilfred Thompson, 36, miner, of Addison-rd., Beresfield, suffered a probable fracture of the left…
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