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Yesterday morning, David Perkins, aged 24, was drowned at Hose Bay. Perkins, with a companion, was taking some horses out for swimming exercise, and started for a swim on his own account. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Last night, after several days of very hot weather, a thunderstorm from tho north-west broke over the city, but only a little rain fell, although the lightning was very…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADELAIDE, Monday.—The weather has been, extremely hot and dry during the past week, bat on Saturday evening a thunder-storm of a most violent character burst over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →After a long spell of heat, very heavy rains fell this afternoon. Some suburbs, such as Goodwood, Mitcham, Kenttown, and Marryatville are inundated. In many cases furniture has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The drowning of a young man named William Perkins at Rose Bay yesterday was a sensational circumstance, and had not assistance been promptly forthcoming…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DUBBO, Saturday.—An accident occurred to the Rev. Mr. Laverty (the Wesleyan minister here) and Mrs. Laverty. They were returning from Narromine, and when about thirteen miles from Dubbo the two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, February 14.—An accident occurred yesterday on a cruiser at Gibraltar while the primers of some torpedoes were being tested…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—A sad drowning accident is reported from Dandenong, about 18 miles from Melbourne, by which a railway line repairer, named Holland, and his son, with another boy named…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GUNNEDAH, Monday.—During a run of the local cyclists yesterday J. T. Sheehan, the well- known footballer, received a fall from his machine while racing down a hill, sustaining a broken…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A serious accident has occurred on board H.M.S. Gibraltar, a cruiser attached to the Zanzibar squadron. A series of tests were being made with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →John Saddlier, the porter at this station, was uncoupling a horse-box from a train on Saturday afternoon, when the engine backed and jambed his right hand between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The coroner held an inquest yesterday at the South Sydney Morgue on the body of a young man named William Perkins., drowned on Sunday at Rose Bay. Deceased was engaged with another…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HAY, Monday.--A young man named William Brownie was accidentally drowned in the Murrumbidgee on Saturday evening whilst bathing near the Black Horse Brewery. Ho went in with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An inquest was held yesterday with reference to the death of William Perkins, the young mail who was drowned on Sunday at Rose Bay. Bernard Kelly said that lie was employed with Perkins by William Clarke…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →After a long spell of heat, very heavy rains fell this afternoon. Some suburbs, such as Good-wood, Mitcham, Kenttown, and Marryatville are inundated. In many cases furniture has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A woman named Mary Ann Amner, who was injured a couple of weeks ago by being thrown out of a vehicle, died in Prince Alfred Hospital last night. Deceased and a Mr. Edwards and his wife were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WOLLONGONG, Monday.—As elderly man named Thomas Hayes, a resident of Cordeaux, Mount Kembla, met with, severe injuries on Saturday evening, the result of being thrown out of a vehicle in which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fatal accident occurred yesterday on the twin-screw cruiser Gibraltar while the primers of torpedoes were being tested. Four seamen were killed on the spot…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four young men went into the Murrumbidgee River on Saturday evening to bathe, when one of them, named William Brownie, got out of his depth and was drowned. One of the others, who caught…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An extraordinary accident occurred yesterday. A man named A. Hearne, who was walking with his son on the footpath at the bridge near the City Mills, fearing that a restive horse in the street was…
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