Burning Accident
Mrs. Miles, a young married woman, living with her husband, Mr. A. E. Miles, of Through-street, South Grafton, was severely burned, about the…
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Motor Accident
When on the return trip from Evans Head on Sunday the steering gear on Mr. J. M'Pherson's motor lorry went wrong at a point near…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A Bathurst message says it is stated that a boy named Thomas Cosgrove was drowned in the Macquarie River on Monday night in view of his…
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A painful accident befell Mrs. A. E. Miles, at South Grafton, on Sunday morning last, owing to an explosion whilst attending to a spirit stove. The Sunerer is said to have poured some of the contents of a tin thought to contain methylated spirits into the stove, which…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. --A boy, seven years of age, was killed at Waverley to-day by touching a live wire blown down during Monday evening's storm…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—On Monday as the Wauchope mail train was proceeding to Sydney crowded with passengers, it collided with, the jinker of a bullock waggon…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.--The fatal motor car accident at Coorparoo on Friday night when the motor car driver and a lady passenger were killed outright and…
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Mr. E. Thompson, who has been in the employ of Mr. L. B. Street for some considerable time, met. with a painful accident on Tuesday evening on the Ballina cutting in…
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A man named Louis Pieser, who was working on the French steamer Catinat yesterday. was knocked down the hold and is now in Sydney Hospital with his…
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A sad and tragic occurrence took plase yesterday morning, when Mervyn, the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Robson, of…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Twenty-eight persons were injured, five badly, when a cable tram jumped the points at South Melbourne last night. The tram was crowded with…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--A tram jumped the points at South Melbourne last night. The tram was crowded with people returning from the…
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SYDNEY, Friday. -- The master of the American five masted schooner Elinor, which arrived in Newcastle yesterday, reported that two men were lost a…
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A fettler named Morris was injured at Byron Bay on Friday by a splinter of iron striking him in the neck. He suffered from much loss of blood, and was conveyed to his…
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NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—J. Broadbent, aged 21, a miner, was on the Dudley beach preparing to get bait from a waterhole nearby by the use of a detonator cap. He…
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LONDON, Sunday.— An Antwerp correspondent states that the British India steamer Australia collided in the Scheldt with the London steamer…
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LONDON, Sunday.--A curious shipping accident in the Mersey to-day suited in the loss of four lives. A sudden gust of wind overbalanced…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—A message from Cloncurry stated that two men, Dick Healey and Stanley Heazlett, were brought into Dajarra at 2 o'clock this morning by a motor…
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WAGGA, Monday.--A well-known grazier, Elliott Heriot, aged 34, was shot dead by a bullet from a cadet rifle at Culcairn yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Captain Alf. Le Griee, the aviator who piloted Sir Ross Smith over the Blue Mountains to Sydney at. the completion of his world flight, was mo'toring…
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