Met Death on Road Collision Between Cyclists
Witnesses at an inquest at Albury yesterday were unanimous that Thomas Oliver . Heath wood, railway fireman, aged 22, of…
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Boys Kept Drowning Secret
MAITLAND. Fri.: Three boys kept secret the drowning of an 6 year-old boy until last night, when the police were called in to search…
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MELBOURNE, Fri: Twenty-nine people were killed on roads in Victoria in December, traffic police records, released to-day, show. The…
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An Irish immigrant who had only been in Wagga two days, having gone there to find work, was drowned in the Murrumbidgee…
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TAMWORTH, Sun: The opening day of the Country Swimming championships was marked by an unusual incident P. Hayes, of…
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NEWCASTLE, Sun.; Swept out with five other surfers, a young man was drowned today at Merewether beach. His body has not…
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A 25 years old Irish immigrant William Joseph Multihull, was drowned in the Murrumbidgee River at Wagga on Sunday. Two unsuccessful attempts…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: Believed to have entered a farm dam for a swim too soon after a meal, Edgar Brotchie, 41. chemist, of Bendigo,…
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SYDNEY, Mon: Lawrence Desmond Walsh. 23, single, of Ocean Parade. The Entrance, was drowned when a rowing boat…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bidgeemia Farmer Injured in Car Crash
When his motor car crashed into a washaway drain and overturned on the Lockhart road, 10 miles from Rand, last evening,…
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NEWCASTLE, Wed.: A Brisbane clergyman died, and five other passengers were injured, one seriously, when a Pioneer…
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SYDNEY, Sat.: Nine surfers narrowly escaped drowning at Manly yesterday when two attempts to reach them in surf-boats failed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boy Killed Man Seriously Injured Motor Crash Near Yackandandah
An 11 year old boy was killed and his uncle critically injured when a motor truck crashed into a tree near Glen Creek. 11 miles…
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Almost five years after, 25 men and one woman were killed in a collision between a bus and a train at the level crossing on the…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs: Becoming-stricken when the twine around a bundle timber caught alight in a moving bus, a woman…
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Four Walla people were injured when a transport in which they were [?] to Walla from Coolamon struck a tree about four…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Four Drowned In Murray Three lives Lost When Father Tries To Save Children
Police were recovering the body of a drowned man from the Murray River at Wahgunyah on Saturday evening when die alarm was given that a man and two little girls had been drowned less than a…
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Taylor’s Bend, the part of the Murray River between Wahgunyah and Rutherglen. where a man and two little girls were drowned on Saturday. The upright bough was placed where footprints indicated the man, Roy Tudor,, of Ruth[?], went into the water to help the children, He was a poor swimmer. A sandbank a short distance from the bank drops to deep water. A sharp current flows…
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The bodies of a man and a girl drowned in the Murray River between Wahgunyah and Rutherglen on Saturday evening…
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