Five Drowned. Big Lismore Flood. Judge and Magistrate Marooned. Lismore
The biggest flood since 1892 occurred at Lismore on Saturday. The maximum height of the waters was 37 feet. At 9 a.m. on…
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Burning Accident
Mr. A. H. Schroder, plumber, of Belgrave-street, Central Kempsey, met with a very nasty accident on Tuesday afternoon. He was pumping a benzine lamp…
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It was the burning of a starch factory that first revealed the adhesive qualities of scorched starch and introduced cheap gum…
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Mr. J. Ainsworth, of Pola Crook, was making his way home on Monday of last week when he saw a young woman and her brother in a boat trying to…
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A peculiar accident happened to an employee on a station in the Bundarra district. He had occasion the other day to shoot a…
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Mr. A H. Schroder, Kenapsey's well-known plumber, met with a very severe burning accident last week., While pumping air into a benzine lamp…
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Mr. J. L. Wilkie, (O'Rourke's farm) was falling a tree on his property half way down the hill. Hearing the sound of it preparing to fall,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Riga-moscow Accident. Paul Freeman Killed. London
Information received in London confirms that Paul Freeman was killed in the Riga-Moscow accident. The cause of the accident is unknown. The party…
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A young man, Mr. F. Russell, of Greenhill, was sleeper chopping at Eungai, and cut off the top of one of his thumbs. He is being attended to at the…
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A returned soldier, named H. J. Rollan, who last year took up a selection on the Pappinbarra Homestead Area, was killed on Wednesday last by a…
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A party travelling in a sulky to Crescent Head on Sunday had a very unpleasant experience. About a mile from the Head the road is strewn with big…
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Whilst loading poles at Heron's Creek last week Mr. J. D. Rowsell, of Telegraph Point, bruised his leg so severely that it necessitated him being…
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A lad named Richard Worthing was riding a horse at a swift pace over the bridge near his home at Warrell Creek on Wednesday…
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A MESSAGE from Surat (Q.) states that the Balonne River, which has been rising fast during the past few…
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While Max Davies, of Gladstone, was playing football, with the Central Macleay team against Kempsey on Saturday, one of the players accidentally…
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At Nabiac on Monday Mr. G. B. "Morris, J.P., coroner held an inquiry into the death of a lad named John William White…
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Compensation aggregating £1500, was awarded by Judge Cohen in the District Court on Wednesday to the dependants of three men who were,…
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Interviewed in hospital, Lieut. Wann, who is suffering from injuries to the head and eyes and severe burns and bruises on the body, said he was in…
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A SERIOUS motoring accident occurred at Lismore on Wednesday. A car was negotiating a steep gradient in the Meerschaum Vale cutting, when…
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Mr. Henry Lambley met with a rather painful accident while engaged in cutting poles at Craven. It appears the axe slipped and…
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