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11 stories in Northern Rivers's papers
A RARE accident occurred the other afternoon at the Gare Montparnoric. The express train from Granville, owing to the braken not working in time, upset the buffers, jumped on the platform, and,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A TELEGRAM from Auckland (N.Z.), on Monday, reports:—A shocking boating fatality, by which no less than 10 lives were lost, is reported from Kaipara. A party of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Board of Health has issued revised directions for the treatment of people apparently dead from drowning or suffocation. All persons habitually on or near the water are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN Adelaide telgram to the S. M. HERALD states:—A terrible railway accident occurred Sunday night about 11 o'clock at the Grand Junction crossing of the main north line and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Thursday night, Charles Peart, the world's champion high diver, at Fitzgeralds', circus now, exhibiting in Sydney sustained such fearful injuries in living from the top of the tent into a small tank…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A COLLISION between the steam collier Kolloe and the Grafton river boat Iolanthe took place at about 10 o'olook on Saturday night near Moore's Wharf. The Kelloe had just arrived from Catherine Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT Katoomba last Wednesday night week a fatal fire occurred, in which four young children wore burned to death. It appears that Mrs. Buchner, who earns…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ON Friday last about noon a lad named Thos. Harps, aged about 13 years, living in Oliver-street, Grafton, met with a serious accident. It appears he was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Woolloomooloo, of the Lund line, homeward bound from Aus-tralia in, collided during a dense fog with the steam collier Emerald, on the 10th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN accident of a serious nature befel Mr. J. H. Carruthers (Minister for Lands) and Mr. W. J. Lyne (leader of the Opposition) early last week. A party, which included Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE steamer Merrie England arrived at Cooktown on Tuesday morning from Samarai. She reports that on arrival at the mouth of the Musa River, New…
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