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This afternoon two schoolgirls, Frances Bo[?]ney and Edith Cundith, each aged 10 years, were heating water on a spirit lamp at Toorbul school, Moreton Bay, and the lamp exploded. The spirit was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SINGLETON, Wednesday.— An accident of painful nature befell a lad, Albert Hosie, at the local sawmills on Monday. Hosie was engaged at the joinery machinery, when by some means his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. John Keane, who has been residing with Mr. Pickering at Gosford, was admitted to Sydney Hospital yesterday morning suffering from a bad fracture of the left leg Mr. Keane has been in ill health…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A lad named William Bark was killed under peculiar circumstances at Rude on Tuesday Bark, who lives with his parents at Marsfield, was employed by Mr. C. Krust, butcher at Ryde…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Monday evening Thomas Vaughan, owner of Eurobla Eastate, about 18 miles from Warren, was brought to town with a severe wound on his head. He was burning off, and whilst in the act of felling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Monday last a labourer named John Davoren, while at work on the Central Wharf, met with a severe accident, which was caused by a bale of wool falling upon him. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →While doing her usual run on the Hakesbury River on Monday the steamer Hawkesbury broke her intermediate shaft. She was towed to Sydney yesterday by the Woy Woy,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NOWRA, Wednesday.--Mr. Patrick Ryan, a dairy farmer, residing at Barrellan, met with a shocking accident early this morning. He was driving home from the banquet given to Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The City Coroner (Mr. J. C. Woore) held an inquiry at Victoria Barracks yesterday concerning the death of Martin Leslie Gordon Gray (21), the trooper who was dragged by a horse in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The body of the woman which was found in Cook's River, near Croydon Park, on Sunday, was identified yesterday as that of Ruth Williams, a single woman, age about 39. The deceased was a domestic,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The body of the woman who was found drowned in Cook's Riyer, Croydon Park, on the 15th instant, has been identified as that of Ruth Williams (39), a single woman, recently…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ethel Blackwood (25), a married woman, residing at 187 Missenden-road, Camperdown, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital yesterday afternoon, suffering from injuries to the head and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BATHURST, Thursday.--During a storm this morning a man named John Sew ell, an employes on the model farm, has a narrow escape from death by lightning. He, with others, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The annual race meeting of the local racing club was brought to a conclusion to-day under weather conditions similar to those of the preceding day, the pleasure of the gathering being discounted by a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →John M'Ardle, a fettler on the Silverton tramway to had a remarkably narrow escape of being killed yesterday afternoon. He had gone down the line about a mile beyond Silverton on a railway tricycle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the magisterial inquiry at Parramatta with respect to the death of the lad Cluns, killed through some timber falling upon him a finding of accidental death was recorded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The adjourned inquiry touching the death of the boy Albert Ernest Clews, aged 5 years and 8 months, which has been reported in THE ARGUS, was held by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A sad drowning accident, ennobled, however, by the gallantry of the attempted resene, occurred at the ocean bench Newcastle, on the afternoon of the 14th instant. Mrs. Thorn, 45. wife of a Hamilton bricklayer, who has been in…
Continued on Trove, page 474 →A new and highly interesting system of preventing railway accidents has been invented by Herr Bartelmus, an Austrian electrician. Herr Bartelmus announced it at a recent sitting of…
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