A Chapter of Accidents
The Port Macquarie Regatta Easter Monday was marked by three accidents—all of a sensational character. The first to claim the attention of…
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Accidents at Dorrigo
A serious football accident occurred on Saturday. William Tait, garage proprietor, of Bellingen, who drove the visiting team up, participated in…
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A resident of East Kempsey was fondling the head of his horse on Sunday, when the animal playfully made a snap at him, and lacerated the owner's…
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A FATAL accident occurred at Lower Creek, Upper Macleay. John William Davies, 20 years of age, was helping to yard cattle at his parents' place. He was riding a young…
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Floods are frequently reported all over the country, and many extraordinary experiences have been related by persons seriously…
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A SERIOUS motor car accident occurred at the bad turn near the quarry, on the Kempsey road, on Easter Monday last. A Laurieton car, driven by the owner,…
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A motor car was travelling at a slow pace near the Tarn worth Court House corner when the driver saw a horse galloping down…
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Mrs. Bruten some days ago was standing on a table painting the ceiling of her residence at West Comboyne, when by some means she lost…
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Mr. M. Byrnes, son of Mr. Con. Byrnes of Congarinni, met with a serious accident at Coff's Harbour last week, receiving a kick in the…
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A man residing at Armidale, near Perth, was shooting a fowl with a small rifle in the back yard, when his daughter, aged two and a half years, came in…
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Monday morning last, while trimming a wedge stop a stump wherewith to ease the saw in a rosewood he was about to haul out of…
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A motor car, which is alleged to have been stolen, driven by two men, struck a moving tram in Pyrmont yesterday afternoon. Both occupants, were…
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The Taree train to Sydney jumped the rails at the level crossing at the Dungog Dairy Farmers' siding year Dungog on Saturday morning…
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While Master Rex Stilt and his sister were returning from Taree railway station on Thursday evening last, after having attended the…
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Mr. W. Nobes, or Christmas Creek, was driving into town this afternoon when his horse commenced to give trouble in River-street near the junction…
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There was a big railway smash at Dungog on Saturday. The engine of the mall train from Taree jumped the mils where the road crosses the line…
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The work of clearing the damaged carriages was commenced immediately a breakdown gong arrived from Newcastle…
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Four business establishments were completely swept away by fire, and two men killed in a resultant explosion in Byron-street, Bangalow, early on…
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MR. G. MARKS, manager of the Grafton Experiment Farm, met with a painful accident a few days ago, as a result of which he will be confined to…
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At the Maitland Circuit Court last week, John Taylor, of Murrurundi, sued the Council of the Shire of Stroud, for the alleged negligent management of…
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