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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1918

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Mining Accidents. Broken Hill Figures. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 February 1918 · page 3

Answering a question of Mr. Brookfield's regarding accidents at Broken Hill, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Minister for Mines, said yesterday that although Mr…

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Fishing Fatality

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 5 February 1918 · page 2

George Carroll, (52), was washed oil the rocks at Long Bay yesterday afternoon while fishing, and was drowned…

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Motor Accident

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 5 February 1918 · page 2

A large motor car overturned while ascending a bill at Clarendon yesterday. The driver and owner (Martin Schneider) were badly…

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Derrick Hooks Break. Accident to Loongana. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 February 1918 · page 2

While a spare engine-shaft weighing two tons was being discharged from the steamer Loongana to-day, the hooks of the derrick broke, and…

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Shocking Fatality. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 February 1918 · page 3

A shocking fatality occurred near Moruya to-day, when Mrs. M'Cartney Noake, wife of the Church of England rector, was killed. A motor car in which…

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Fatality on Steamer. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 February 1918 · page 2

A shocking fatality occurred at South Grafton this morning, when a deck-hand on the dredger Osprey, named Thomas Manning, was fatally crushed between…

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Motor Car Accidents. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 February 1918 · page 2

In returning a verdict of accidental death in the case of a child who hail been knocked down by a motor car, the acting coroner remarked that it…

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Fatal Riding Accident

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 February 1918 · page 4

Mr. Thomas King, one of the best known members of the legal profession in Melbourne. who for 26 years was a member of the firm of Gavan Duffy and…

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Accidental Death. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 2

A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest to-day on the solider, Frederick Rolston, who died at the Garrison Military Hospital as the…

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Fatal Collision. Bicycle and Tramcar. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 February 1918 · page 2

A fatal incident incurred at Darlinghurst as the result of a collision between a motor cycle and a tram. Harry Merrick, of Boyce-street, Gibbe, was…

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Local and General. Mr. Cecil Roffe Drowned

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1918 · page 2

The end news was conveyed to Mrs. Roffe, of the railway gates, Cootamundra, at 4 a.m. on Tuesday morning, by the local police, that her…

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Woman's Death. Accidentally Caused by Husband. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 February 1918 · page 3

The inquest concerning the death of Mary Smith has been concluded. The Coroner found that deceased died from peritonitis resulting from a…

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A Gunbar Fatality. Suicide by Strychnine

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 3

On Monday last Mr M, R Longfield, P.M., coroner, held an inquiry respecting the death of Robert Stuart Ford, aged 51, who died at Gunbar…

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War on the Sea. Dover Bombarded. Child Killed and Civilians Injured. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 February 1918 · page 2

The Press Bureau reports:—An enemy submarine bombarded Dover at ten minutes past 12 this morning and discharged 30 rounds in three minutes. One…

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Items of News. Sulky Accident

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 February 1918 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon last, Lieut. H. M. Hutton, of Bomen, left his pony and sulky in Little Gurwood-street, fastening the pony to a tree…

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Professor Drowned. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1918 · page 2

Professor H. D. Bedford, of Otago University, and ex-M.P., was drowned while bathing in the Whangerei River (New Zealand). He was 41…

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The River Mystery. Inquest Concluded. Death by Drowning

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 February 1918 · page 4

The District Coroner, Mr. C. J. B. Heim, concluded the inquest into the death of James Patrick Curran, at the Wagga Court House yesterday…

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Soldier Injured. Accidental Shooting at Bongongolong. Attacked by a Fox

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 4

A returned soldier, Wm. Robinson, who is at present an inmate of St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, furnishes an unusual hard…

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Local and General. Accident

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 1 March 1918 · page 2

Anxiety was left at Humala on Sunday evening last by the failure to appear there to conduct the 7. 30 services or later on the part of Mr…

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Driving Accident

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 March 1918 · page 2

Bert Howe, aged 23, of Ganmain, was brought to the Wagga District Hospital at 8 o'clock on Saturday evening, and detained as a patient. He…

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