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There were more accidents at Randwick Race-course on Saturday, the concluding day of the Anniversary meeting of the Sydney Turf Club, than has been the case for a long time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The body of the boy Henry Layers, of Arnclifle, who was drowned in George's River on Anniversary Day through falling out of a boat, was found about 6 o'clock on Saturday evening. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A man named Jacob Lewis, who had resided in Bay-street, Glebe, met with a terribly tragic death at Coogee yesterday morning. Lewis had gone out to Coogee with a friend of his, Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.—A sad double drowning accident occurred on Newcastle Beach late on Saturday afternoon, when two young girls named Ida Jane Spencer Burraston, aged 14, and Rose…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The slup Hawksdale has been wrecked at Long Sand, near the estuary of the Thames. A German pilot and two seamen were drowned The Clacton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Saturday.--A double drowning fatality, followed by incidents of a particularly horrible character, happened at the beach at the rear of the Newcastle Hospital this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Several accidents occurred at the Randwick races on Saturday afternoon. As reported in our late editions of Saturday six horses fell in the Anniversary Handicap, and Shaughraun was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—The recent drowning fatality at Como should certainly be the means of directing tie attention of the police authorities to the necessity for increased police supervision in that locality on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Committee: Messrs.E.M.Betts (chairman), W.O. Cooper, R. Richards, Richard Rouse, jun., E. Terry, E.H.Weston, J.B.Bettington, M.J. Macuamara, G…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day's racing at Randwick was marked by an unfortunate accident, half a dozen horses coming down together in the Anniversary Handicap. The horses had entered the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →With reference to a matter which came up for discussion at the Transit Commissioners' meeting on Wednesday last, when it was inferred in a communication addressed to the board that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ALBURY, Monday Afternoon.—Shortly before 9 o'clock this morning a boiler at Hayes's Brother's Flour Mill, situated in the centre of the most populace portion of the town, exploded with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An inquiry was held at the Highbury Barn Hotel yesterday by the City Coroner into the circumstances connected with the drowning of Henry Lavers at Como on Anniversary Day. The evidence bore out the facts…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Coroner held an inquiry today Into the circumstances attendant on the deaht of the young man Henry Ephraim Lavers, who lost his life in the George's River on Anniversary…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The police authorities received information to-day to the effect that a child named Charles William Parker, about 2 years of age, was drowned in Dora 'Creek last evening. it appears that the child was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GLADSTONE, Monday.--A boating fatality took place here yesterday evening. Mr. Curtis, police magistrate; Mr. John Braddock, secretary to the Central Queensland Land…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.—Another fatality occurred last night, when a child named Charles W. Parker was drowned at Dora Creek. It appears that the deceased was playing with an elder…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WALLERAWANG, Monday.--An inquest was held on Saturday concerning the deaths by drowning of the boys Appleton and Latter, at Portland, already reported. A verdict of death…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At last night's meeting of the City Council the Mayor presented a minute referring in sympathetic terms to the double drowning accident on the Newcastle beach on Saturday afternoon, but…
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