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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

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Boating Accident at Benalla. Two Constables Drowned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 8 September 1908 · page 4

A boating accident occurred at Benalia on Sunday afternoon, resulting in the death of two members of the Victorian police, Const. James Cummins and Mtd…

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Boy Shoots His Baby Brother. Shooking Accident at Henty. Henty

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 8 September 1908 · page 2

A horrible shooting accident, in which a little boy caused the death of a baby brother occurred here yesterday. Samuel Culling, who is just 7 years if…

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Tragic Boating Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 September 1908 · page 2

A [] boating accident occurred on Sunday afternoon at Benalla, resulting in the death of two members of the Victorian police, namely,…

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The Suva-hero Collision

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 September 1908 · page 8

A court of marine inquiry was opened to-day to take evidence regarding the collision between the steamer Suva and the tug Hero off Cape Three Points on the…

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Bellambi Coach Accident. Pass[?]ngers Recover Damages. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 10 September 1908 · page 3

John Frltehard and his wife sued the [?] Coal Company to-day to reccver [?]2500 for damages alleged to have been [?] by the female plain[?] through…

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Two Constables Drowned

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 September 1908 · page 29

On Sunday afternoon a fatal boating accident occurred on Broken River at the weir recently erected by the Benalla waterworks trust. It involved the deaths of…

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Colac-pareora Collision. Before the Marine Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 11 September 1908 · page 3

At a sitting of the Marine Court to-day the recent collision between the Colae and the Pareora formed the subject of an inquiry. The court called…

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Boy Shoots Baby. a Deplorable Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 September 1908 · page 30

A deplorable shooting accident occurred at Henty on Sunday, when a boy named Culling, aged 7 years, while playing with a breechloader gun pulled the trigger, and…

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Stage Coach Accident. Passenger Obtains Compensation

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 September 1908 · page 7

In the Supremo Court, Sydney, on Monday, before Mr. Justice Cohen and a jury. Francis James Brazill. builder and contractor, sought to recover £2000 from the Bellambi Coal…

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Dreadful Accident to a Boy Staked in the Audomen. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 11 September 1908 · page 2

A schoolboy named Richard Grogory met with a dreadful accident this morning The lad was out for a holiday at Centernial Park and was amusing…

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The Suva-hero Collision

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 12 September 1908 · page 5

The Marine Court, consisting of Judge Backhouse and Captains Simpson and Bracegirdle (assessors), resumed its inquiry to-day into the collision between the…

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Bellambi Coach Accident. a Widow Gets £1000 Damages

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 12 September 1908 · page 5

Another action prising out of the accident caused by a coach and a train owned by the Bellambi Coa Company at Lithgow coming into collision at a [?]…

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An Injured Jockey

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 September 1908 · page 2

The Jockey James M'Crae, who sustained commission of the brain through Eppo falling at the last hurdle in the Hurdle Race at the Albury Racing Club's…

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Items of News. Accident When Wood Cutting

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 September 1908 · page 2

Mounted Constable O'Sullivan, who is stationed at Albury, met with a painful accident yesterday morning at his resident, Olive-street. Constable O'Sullivan…

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General Cable News London, Tuesday. Lord Curzon Injured. in a Motoring Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 16 September 1908 · page 5

Lord Curzon, of [?] in Sunday that with a namly accident [?] motoring hour [?]…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Thursday. Injured While Killing a House

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 September 1908 · page 3

This afternoon a young man named Frank Mallon, 25 years of age, a laborer, who resides at Bula, was about to kill a hgorse that had broken its…

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An Injured Jockey

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 September 1908 · page 2

James McCrae, the jockey who on Saturday last sustained a severe concussion of the brain through Eppo falling over the last hurdle in the Hurdle Race at the…

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Sir Thomas Forwell Buxton. a Serious Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 September 1908 · page 5

Sir Thomas Fewell Buxton, who was Governor of South Australia from 1895 to 1808, has met with a severe accident. He was thrown from his horse near his…

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Sir Thomas Fowell Bunton. Not Seriously Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 September 1908 · page 3

The [?] that were entertained that Sir Thomas Eowell Baston, formerly Governor of South Australia, had sustained grave interned injuries in the accident he…

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Violence or Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 22 September 1908 · page 3

The Coroner (Dr. Cole) held an inquiry at the morgue to-day relating to the death if Jean Hewitt, an unmarried woman, aged 40 years, who had resided in Park-st…

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