Yarra Drowning Fatality
A Melbourne message says Irene McDougall, 10 years, was paddling in the Yarra at Kew. She walked into a deep hole, and her sister, Pearl…
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Drowned in Well. Sydney
Mrs. Sophia Winchester, 63, was drawing a bucket of water from a well near her home at Blacktown yesterday when she was seized with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Riding Fatality. Mrs. J. S. Gam Killed. Skull Fractured
Mrs Annie Maud Gam of Main Creek Dingadee, near Dungog, died at her home on Tuesday last. The deceased who was the widow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Factory Roof Collapses. Twenty Injured. London
Over 30 employees in the spinning mills at Bradford were buried this morning through the collapse of a roof, which brought down heavy machinery…
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SAYS the "Manning River Times" : Mr. George Hall, of Lansdowne, was out shooting with another young man on New Year's Day. They were standing on a log about…
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AT Hoskins Excelsior quarries, Charles Aboud, a young Syrian, was boiling his billy when a terrific explosion occurred just as he was putting his hand on the handle…
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While proceeding down river with a load of furniture yesterday Mr. H. Edwards, who drives for Mr. J. R. Garland, of Kempsey, noticed an elderly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Rifle Accident. Sydney
A Toowoomba message says two sons of James McBride, a fencing contractor at Toliness Station, in the Augathella district in the far west, went…
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A MAN named Barker, from Ballengarra, who had been on a visit to Topi Topi, was returning in his car accompanied by his wife and a son about 3 or 4 years of age,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. Melbourne Shooting Tragedy Three Killed, Two Injured. Sydney
Melbourne was horrified on Thursday night when it became known that a ghastly murder had been perpetrated by a man with a rifle in the Botanical…
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The Rev. H. W. Rogers whilst proceeding to Barrington Church on Sunday morning last met with quite a serious accident. The horse he was…
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VICTOR FOLEY, aged 19, met with a fearful accident at Narara last week. He was using gelignite, but kept a plug in his hand too long, and it exploded, shattering both…
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While playing in Perrin's-lane, West Kempsey, on Tuesday, Harry Connors, aged four, had a nasty fall. He was taken to the District Hospital where…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Torrential Rain. Fatality in Queensland
A TORRENTIAL rain storm caused floods in many country districts, and at Springsure, a pensioner, who was camped near the town lost his life…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Scalding Accident
WHILST returning from the Macleay River on Monday last with his brother-in-law, Mr. E. Brenton, Jack McLaren, a son of Mr. and Mrs. D. McLaren, of Port…
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Whilst cutting mill timber at Hampden Hall yesterday (Monday) morning, Mr. Lloyd Wright, of East Kempsey, met with a very painful accident…
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Whilst returning from the Macleay River on Monday, 4th inst., with his brother-in-law, Mr. E. Brenton, Jack McLaren, a son of Mr. and Mrs. D…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shark Scare. Woman Frightfully Injured at Bronte
Attacked by a savage shark while she was turfing at Bronte on Wednesday night, a woman received frightful Injuries and she Is not…
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THREE little boys at Lake Finnigan, King Island, Tasmania, were amusing themselves in a bedroom by catching blowflies and imprisoning them in the barrels of a shotgun…
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MR. WILLIAM BARBER, aged 26 years, was fatally injured at his home at McLean's Ridge, near Alstonville, on Monday afternoon. He was driving…
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