Accident to an Electricians. Mishap at Pyrmont. Sydney
A serious explosion took place at the City Council's, electric lighting department's sub-station, at Pyrmont, this morning. A man named Thos. Wearne…
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An Unpleasant Accident
During the stock sale by Mr. R. E. Alcorn at Kyogle on Thursday a cocked horned cow charged a bystander in the selling ring, and inserting her horns in his pants with a…
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A boat containing 5 men overturned m Port Phillip, between Williamstown and Port Melbourne yesterday. Two were drowned and the rest rescued by a…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--As the result of an assault Bob Turner, former lightweight champion boxer of Australia, was seriously injured in the lower part of the body and…
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Capt. Ellery, master of the Yulgilbar, met with a nasty accident on Monday week while the vessel was at the Sydney wharf. Not being aware that a small hatchway between…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--While swimming at Inverell Mary Hanshow, aged 18, got beyond her depth. She called out to her father, who…
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At lnverell on Sunday, Mary Ann Hanshaw, 18, and her brother, Frederick aged 9, went into the Mclntyre River to bathe. The girl got into difficulties…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- While swimming at Inverell Alary Hanshaw,aged 18, got beyond her depth. She called to her father, who attempted to rescue the girl, but she…
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As Mr. Trembath, of Piccabeen, was coming into Tweed Heads on Monday, driving a sulky, in which was his wife and child, the horse took fright at…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday . -- A gas explosion occurred at Spottiswoode pumping works, Melbourne, When eight men were injured. Three are in a serious condition…
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Lieut. Seymour Villiers Brown, until recently attached to the military camps, was proceeding along Bayview-terrace, Clayfield, recently, when the motor cycle he was…
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LAUNCESTON, Wednesday. -- While Herbart Qualler, of Bull Plains, Launceston was out shooting his gun accidentally exploded land the contents enterings his side[?]he died in…
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A drowning tragedy occurred at Red Rock, on the MacIntyre River, two miles below Inverell. A family named Handshaw visited the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--Thomas Daley, a well-known Sydney pressman, was washed off the rocks at Bondi and drowned…
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HOBART, Friday.--A mail coach which left Kingston for Hobart with 20 passengers overturned and fell sideways over a fifteen feet bank. Four passengers were pinned…
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The Coroner has announced that evidence taken regarding the recent East London explosion had not suggested anything but sneer accident. The fire…
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LONDON, Thursday.--A verdict of death by misadventure was returned at the inquest on several of the victims of the great munitions explosion in East London. The…
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SYDNEY, Saturday. -- There was a railway mishap on the Wagga-Humula line yesterday. The tender left the rails when travelling rover a steep curved embankment,…
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A recent wire stated that Mr. Thomas Burke Daley, a well-known Sydney journalist, living at "Beuna Vista," Silva-street, Bondi, was washed off the rocks at Mackenzie's…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. -- A motor lorry on the Bombala-Delegate road go out of control, as a result of which driver Burns was killed and three others injured…
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