Record Floods. South China Inundated. Thousands Drowned and Homeless
The record floods for three decades have inundated the vast valleys of South China, drowned thousands of people, and rendered homeless many…
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Fatal Accident
THE district Coroner, Mr. F. Hayward, J.P., held on inquest on the 11th inst. touching the death of George Benjamin Saville, farmer, of Lorne, Camden Haven, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murrurundi Railway Collision
Dwyer and Gibson were acquitted on the charge of negligent omission, arising out of the Murrurundi railway collision…
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Percy Bryant, aged 3, was accidentally shot dead by his father at the Pioneer mine, Victoria. The latter was repairing a…
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MRS. MARGARET BROWN, aged 69, wife of an engine-fitter named William Brown, who resides at 105 Phillip-street, Balmain, met with a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Car Accidents
Trig emergency brakes of a motor car at San Francisco snapped, and the car fell down a steep embankmont. Mrs. M'Cormick hen daughter, aged 18…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Painful Accident
WHILE superintending loading, operations at Tatham on Monday week a very painful accident happened to Captain Jack Turner,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accidents Pension Bill
In the Assembly Mr Fitzpatrick criticised the Administration of the Invalidity and Accidents Pension Bill. The treasurer defended the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Strange Accident Causes Death
An extraordinary accident has caused the death of Mr. Tagglioni the manager of the Lahgham Hotel in Paris. He was in the habit of doing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Mountain Adventure. an Injured Tourist. Crawls Three Miles
After the terrible experience of spending two nights on the side of a mountain in the Snowdonian range with a broken leg,, a young German doctor,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Two Americans Drowned
Two men of the American fleet were drowned in the Harbour on Saturday night, while another, whose boat was capsized, stripped himself…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to the Gloucester Mail Coach
ON Wednesday night last, as Mr. Sid Walden was driving the Gloucester coach towards Taree, and when on the Tinonee-side of Mr. Wells' property,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man's Arm Torn Off. Shocking Accident at Pyrmont
On Tuesday morning Alfred Aley, 35, residing at Mary street,' Hunter's hill, met with a shocking accident, resulting in the loss of his night aim…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Collision in Harbour
A SENSATIONAL collision occurred in the Harbour, off South Head, at an early hour on Saturday morning, whereby two well-known Sydney…
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A sensational accident occurred at Orange last night. During tho performance of Wirth's Circus a violent squall took place, causing the tent…
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Instead of resolutely setting to work to cure a growing evil fraught with peril to the country, the British Admiralty have (according to "Public Opinion")…
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Whilst doing his ro[?]bds yesterday (Tuesday) morning, Mr. A. Witchard, baker, met with an accident. He was drivings young horse, which had a…
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Constable Cummings and Daly were boating in Broken, River, Victoria, when the boat was drawn into the weir by the Strong current and…
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A VERY painful and serious accident befel Mr. S. Cook on Wednesday evening. It appears that Mr. Cook, together with a couple…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Cables. LONDON, Saturday. Steamer Sunk in Collision
According to a report from Rio Janeiro, the British steamer Spartan Prince, from New York, was sunk in a collision at Clara, and fourteen…
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