Benzine Explodes Nine Injured and One Killed. Disaster at Maori Gathering
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.-- During a Maori gathering at Jerusalem at the head of the Waipiro Bay yesterday, a Maori emptied a benzene tin…
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Motor Car Accident
Mr. Garfield Robbins met with an accident to his motor car yesterday when in the vicinity of the tick gate on the road about eight miles from Murwillumbah…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.-- The coroner held an inquiry to-day into the death of John Gardiner, aged 16, who, was shot dead while camping at Menangle on…
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Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Graves, "Monaltrie," Lismore, were rather seriously injured while out driving last Wednesday. When crossing a paddock on the return journey home the…
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Mrs. Longly, of Evans Head, died on Sunday from burns, accidentally received through her clothing catching alight at her home. She was hurried to the Coraki…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. --A Chinese steward on the Marella, berthed at Circular Quay, was struck on the head last night during an altercation. He also had…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. --The masted and crew of the steamer Yarra testified at the inquiry to- day that the collision with the sailing vessel Muscoota in the…
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LAUNCESTON, Thursday.—A circus attendant had one finger bitten off and his right, hand and arm badly torn by a lion yesterday He was feeding lions through the…
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A remarkable accident with fatal results occurred on Saturday morning on the No. 4 Melbourne express from Albury to Sydney. T. H. Yarra, who was…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A girl named Russell went bathing in a dam at Gamarra, 16 miles from Grenfell, yesterday. Men working in a paddock heard calls for help and found…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The members of the crew of the steamer Yarra, which was in collision with the barque Muscoota, declare emphatically that the lights of the Muscoota…
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VANCOUVER, Thursday.--A suspension bridge across the Cowlitz River at Washington collapsed while crowds of workers were going home. Eighty…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A woman with a baby in a perambulator was jumped on at Arncliffe last night by a horse which shied at a passing tram. The woman was admitted…
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Mrs. Longly, of Evans Head, died on Sunday from burns, accidentally received through her clothing catching alight at her home. She was hurried…
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Two girls, aged 12 years, overbalanced from the Spit punt yesterday afternoon and fell into the water. Two brothers named Curtis, who were…
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BRISBANE, Sunday. --A farmer named Percy Neeves, 32, married, while swimming at Tingalpa Creek this morning was drowned…
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A horse and cart became wedged between two trams in Shaw- street, Marrickville, yesterday and three men and a boy were injured and several tram…
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NEWCASTLE, Sunday. --Hidby Berry, 15, of Wallsend, was riding on a motor lorry yesterday when it crashed into a post…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—A fanner named Percy Neeves (31), married, while swimming Tingalpa Creek this morning was drowned. He swam across the creek and…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—A collision resulting in the death of Cecil Hamilton Fawcett, 24, while he was riding, and a motor car at the intersection of Herbert and Henson…
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