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Mr. F. A. Wright, M.P., had an unpleasant experience on Anniversary Day, when he laid a leg broken. Mr. Wright was patting one of his prize Alderney bulls, when the animal, which has hitherto been perfectly docile…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ARMIDALE, Saturday.--A sensational accident happened to a picnic party to the Gara electric works yesterday afternoon. A number of young people had gone out from Armidale, and when…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A sad boating accident happened at Botany Bay on Anniversary Day, close to Cronulla Beach. A Rockdale party of five, consisting of Mr. W. Logan, Mrs. Ernest Rusell (wife of the guard of the Brighton tram) and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A serious railway-accident was narrowly averted near Pyramid-hill, on the Bendigo line, last night. The last mixed train from Bendigo downward, whilst travelling about 30 miles an hour, ran into…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Intelligence was received at the Walhalla police station at 7 o'clock last evening that a serious boating fatality occurred during the afternoon at the Thompson River, six miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The inquest into the circumstances attending the death of Jan Yung, a Chinaman, who was killed on the railway near Seven Hills, on Sunday evening, was concluded before the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LITHGOW, Monday.--A man named Scanlan, travelling with a shooting gallery, started business on a vacant allotment in the main street on the 20th instant. The rifle used was of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lieutenant-Colonel F. A. Wright, M.L.A., who has the command of the Australian Rifles, met with serious injuries at his residence, Putney, on Thursday evening last…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →With reference to the accident on Saturday to John Galloway, a railway shunter at Eveleigh, we are informed that his injury was not a severe crushing, as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News has been received of a sad boating accident on the Thompson River, near Walhalla. It seems an old punt, containing six Italians, a boy, and a girl, sunk while…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--A boating fatality took place on the Thompson River, Walhalla, on Sunday. Six Italians and a boy and girl were crossing the river in a dilapidated punt when it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest was held at Swan Hill to-day concorning the drowning of Alexander M'Curdy and his two sons. The evidence showed that ons of the boys got out of his depth. His brother and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The police at Numurkah to-night received a report that three men named W. Howard, William Twitt, and F. Mills had been drowned in Loch Garry Lake, adjoining the Goulburn River,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The City Coroner initiated an inquest at the South Morgue, Sydney, on Monday, touching the death of a Chinaman named Chin Lun Yung (41), gardener, who was run over and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While driving a horse and cart along Botany-road on Tuesday evening John M'Kay, 58, residing at King-street, North Botany, was thrown out of the vehicle through the horse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The circle of Capetown wheelmen has given another of its number to the cause of the Empire. Sergeant Maddock, of the South African Light-Horse, who was shot…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Messrs. Howard Smith and Sons' steamer Age, when off Green Cape at about 7.40 a.m. yesterday, broke her tail-shaft. The disabled steamer was picked up later in the day by the Norkoowa and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At 6.30 p.m. yesterday a wharf lumper named William Atkins (38), residing at 11 Berritt-street, Bahrain, was taken by the Civil Ambulance Brigade to the Sydney Hospital, suffering from a fractured rib. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert recently met with a mishap while being floated out of dock at Pembroke. Immediately after she floated the yacht listed thirty degrees to port, and her…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. R. J. Hillis, of Prospect, met with a rather severe accident at his gateway on Wednesday. He had taken in his horse and cart and had fastened up the gate…
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