Youth Drowned in Nepean
SYDNEY, Sunday.—A 15-year-old boy, Brian Harrison, of Parramatta-road. Ashfield, was drowned late this afternoon while swimming at…
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Accidents, 1946
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Students Injured in Anti British Riots
CAIRO, Feb. 10. A.A.P.—One thousand Cairo University students fought with truck loads of police in the second day of the…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Three people were killed and 15 injured in road accidents in New South Wales at the week-end. A women was fatally injured and…
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LONDON, Feb. 11. A.A.P.—The Royal Navy's latest aircraft carrier, Theseus, which was commissioned on January 9, arrived at Portsmouth…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Louis Wylde, 59, was killed to-night when struck by a car near his home in Bexley-road, Campsie…
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LONDON, Monday: The British submarine Saga, after collision with the trawler Girl Lena, which sank, picked up all the trawler's crew…
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William Donald, of Weston, was fatally injured in an accident in Hebburn No. 1 colliery yesterday afternoon. Two other men were…
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CALCUTTA, Feb. 12. A.A.P.—Four persons were killed and 17 wounded up till noon to-day in clashes between the police and Moslerm mobs in the Bhowanipore area, southern Calcutta. The fighting began last night when demonstrations…
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MELBOURNE Tuesday.—A special jury of six found in favour of the defendant Melbourne Metropolitan Tramways Board, in the case…
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While Norman Butters, 19, of Brook-street, Cook's Hill, was working on a lathe as an apprentice fitter and turner at the Steel Works…
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Two employees of Stockrington No. 2 colliery were injured at work yesterday. They were taken to Wallsend Hospital by Wallsend…
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CALCUTTA, Feb. 14. A.A.P.—There was a fresh outbreak in the Calcutta riots to-day and police were forced to fire on a crowd of millworkers which assembled in Dum Dum-road outside Calcutta…
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William Haliday, 60, of Macquarie-street, Junction, suffered a probable fracture of the skull, lacerations to the scalp, concussion and shock when…
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SYDNEY, Friday.— When the framework of the side of a house fell, Jack Westaway, 27, builder, of Dee Why, suffered a crushed left foot,…
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A verdict that death was due to heart failure, accelerated by fracture of the ribs accidentally received when he fell against an…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Five people were seriously injured this afternoon when a tree fell across a car in National Park…
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TAMWORTH, Monday.—The body of Ethel Henry, 18, was found in eight feet of water in the Peel River at Tamworth to-day. She was…
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Early on the night of January 17. Cecil Joseph Bortkevitch, 20, of Jenner-parade, Hamilton, fitter and turner, was driving a motor-cycle, on…
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MELBOURNE: After a brilliant six furlongs trial in 1.15½ at Caulfield today Futurity Stakes favorite, Bernborough, was saved from serious accident through quick thinking by A. Mulley…
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Rowley Doctor, 57, of Howe-street, Lambton, veteran horseman who came out of retirement to compete in hunting contests at Newcastle…
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