Shooting Fatality
Upper Macleay folk were shocked on Sunday night to hear that a young man named John Henry Hill, on a holiday visit to Comara, had been…
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A Peculiar Accident
A peculiar accident took place at Taree recently. Mr. W. Wright stepped off the footpath, and at the same moment a car and motor cycle were passing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. Fatal Burning Accident. Coonamble
Daniel Sharkey was working in his boot-repairing shop at Coonamble, when the gas engine exploded, enveloping him in flames. He was horribly burned, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Burning Fatality. Inquest at Wingham
An inquest touching the death of Margaret Miller, who died as the result of burns received at Mooral Creek on November 6, was held by the…
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Sunday last while motoring from Lismore to Ballina, Mr. Hussey, of Hotel Ryan, Lismore, while trying to avoid skidding into a creek struck a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Accident at Gunning. Sydney
Allen Herald, aged 22, a railway electrician, while out rabbit shooting with a companion at Gunning, stooped to get through a wire fence, when his rifle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tram Collision in Sydney. Sydney
When two trams collided head-on at Waverley late yesterday afternoon 15 passengers were injured, the majority only slightly. Men and women were…
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A very painful accident befel Mr. Sam Frost, of Tigrah, yesterday, afternoon. While using an axe in the bush he over-balanced backwards,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boating Accident
LAST Sunday morning four youths in a boat had an unenviable experience on the bar that should prove a good lesson to them and others who are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Drowning Accident. Sydney
A lad named Whitfield was drowned while bathing in the Murray River at Tocumwal, a companion being rescued with difficulty…
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While proceeding to a dance at Sherwood recently a party of young folk from Skillton Flat way had a most unenviable experience. Two young men,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Fatality. Sydney
The body of an unknown woman was found on the railway line near Homebush station early this morning, practically cut in halves…
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A motor car accident, which although spectacular, was luckily not attended by any personal injury, took place in Belgrave-street, just opposite…
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In the accounts of the collision between the gigantic White Star liner Olympic and H.M.S. Hawke, it was set out that as the cruiser came…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Accidental Outlaws Fate of Two Manning Settlers
The following interesting article appeared in Smith Weekly":— To fathom the full depths of…
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