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BRISBANE, Friday.—A boat containing Messrs. W. F. N. Clayton. F. W. Smith, school teachers, and Patrick Rooney, a lad, upset in Keppel Bay on Thursday. The two first-named started to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest upon the body of Thomas Peake, who was drowned in the harbour on Wednesday evening by the capsizing of the half-decker Tennyson, was held by the City Coroner at the Croydon Hotel, George-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →In our last issue we briefly stated that the body of John Tustin had been recovered on Friday afternoon The party who went up the river on that occasion were Constables Bressington and Russel and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A BOY named Albert Arthur Willick was drowned at Duck River, Clyde, on Monday afternoon. Full particulars were disclosed at the inquest held before the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BRISBANE, Friday.--A boat containing W. F. N. Clayton and F. W. Smith, school teachers, and Patrick Rooney, a lad, upset in Keppel Bay yesterday. The two former started to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest has been held at Macquarie Farm, six miles from Carcoar, touching the. deaths by drowning of Annie and Rubina Arthur, daughters of Daniel Arthur, of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The search for the bodies of the young men who were drowned on New Year's Day by the capsizing of the Tennyson was yesterday continued by the Water Police, but without…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It was disclosed at the inquest on the two boys Warring, drowned in the bay on New Year's Day, that they had gone in to bathe in 4ft. of water in sight of other boys and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MUSWELLBROOK, Friday.--A boy named Joseph Doran had a narrow escape from death by drowning this morning. He went down to the river in a cart to give a horse a drink,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Thursday's EVENING NEWS it was announced that the Water Police had recovered the body of Thomas Peake, one of the young men drowned in the harbor on New Year's Day by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Friday.—Twenty-three inches of rain fell at Normanton since Christmas Day. All the lower portions of the town are submerged. Boats are out rescuing families. Three men were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At Mount Macquarie yesterday afternoon two little girls, children of D. Arthur, a farmer, aged 9 and 6 years, and a daughter of J. Hoadley, farmer, went to a dam in the neighbourhood of their homes to bathe…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Twenty-four inches of rain have fallen at Normanton, Carpentaria, since Christmas Day. The whole country is flooded. Three men, Joseph Crow, William Pinkerton, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two children were drowned whilst bathing at Mount Macquarie on Friday. Several fatalities are reported from Normanton (Q.) in consequence of the recent heavy rates…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COWRA, Saturday.—The 2 a.m. train for Blayney left the rails at a quarter of a mile east of Holmwood. The engine, tender, and two carriages have fallen over, but the van has not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Friday.—A fatal accident occurred on Thursday night, on the Urardla-road. Mrs. Cowley of Port Adelaide, was returning from Port Adelaide in a four-horse van. The road is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On New Year's Day some 5000 persons visited Lady Robinson's Beach, a large number of hawkers being present. Great excitement was caused in the afternoon by one of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An inquest was held at the Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday, relative to the death of the lad, Joseph Wilkins, who rode Harmony in the race for Tattersall's Cup on New Year's Day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A terrible accident occurred at the Standard Hat Factory, North Fitzroy, to-day. One of the employees, named Emily Adams, aged 16, during lunch hour was sitting on the machinery…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A fatal bosting accident occurred in Keppel Bay yesterday afternoon. Two school teachers, named Clayton and Smith, and a boy went out in a boat, which capsized, but was afterwards righted full of…
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