Terrible Bathing Fatality. Man Killed by a Shark
The immunity from molestation by sharks that batherts on Harbor and ocean front have enjoyed this season came to an end in a tragic manner yesterday, when a…
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Two Children Missing. Supposed to Have Been Drowned. Not Yet Discovered
Two small children, residents of the West End, were reported missing this afternoon. Their tracks have been followed and traced be the river, and it is supposed that both have…
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Mrs. John Carey and Mr. James Guy, of Mconbi, were thrown from a vehicle on Tuesday night. The former died immediately from her injuries, and the latter was…
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Considerable excitement was caused at Circular Quay yesterday by the cry that a man was drowning. It appears that Francis William Moon, living in Princes-street, fell into the water when…
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A girl named Mabel Bulmer, aged 13 years, fell off a wharf at Franklin on Saturday. The body has been recovered. Charles Knowles, a Hobart cabman was found…
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Richard Burrows, 17, residing at 641 King-street, Newtown, met with a nasty accident on Saturday night at Rockdale, through falling out of a swinging boat. About 8 o'clock Burrows and…
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At Bunbury on Friday a Norwegian sailor named Christine Audersen, 31, died in the hospital as the result of an accident on the barque Freden on Thursday. Andersen when discharging ballast had his…
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WILCANNIA, Monday.--A sad [?] tality occurred this afternoon to a lad aged about 12 years, named Joseph Lawson. Deceased, with a number of companions, was bathing in the…
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A magisterial inquiry was held yesterday concerning the death of a Chinese vegetable dealer named Ah Chun, 54 years of age, who died at his residence in Close-street, Canterbury, on…
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The inquest on the man James Deble, who died last Wednesday from the effects of injuries received by a fall of earth in the Ivanhoe on November 4, was concluded to-day. A verdict of…
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A collision, which was most sensational, but which was not attended with any serious injury to human life, or limb, occurred in Oxford-street about a quarter past 8 this…
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The City Coroner (Mr. J. C. Woore) held an inquiry yesterday into the circumstances connected with the death of Stanley Priddy James, the victim of the bathing fatality in the Lane Cove River on…
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Benjamin Arthur, 17, residing in Victoria-street, Alexandria, fell from a scaffold while working at a new brickworks in that suburb on Monday, a distance of 20ft. The Civil…
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KIAMA, Tuesday.—A peculiar accident happened at the local swimming baths on Sunday morning. While in the act or taking a running high dive, a young man named Stanley Rogers, noticed…
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Frederick Rowland, 25, a railway employee, fell from a tram in George-street West yesterday morning, and sustained severe injuries to the back and loins. The Civil Ambulance took him to Sydney…
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While working on the R.M.S. Sierra yesterday, a wharf labourer named M'Lean fell down the hold of the vessel, a distance of 20ft. The Civil Ambulance conveyed the sufferer to Sydney Hospital, where he…
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One of those painfully shocking accidents, which are more or less associated with the handling or treatment of metal and machinery, occurred at the loco, shed in…
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William Quinn, 11 years of age, was shot dead yesterday afternoon at Gunya Gunyah. His parents went out for a drive, leaving at home their two boys, the elder of whom was 13. The…
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While working on the R.M.S. Sierra, berthed at the Circular Quay, a wharf laborer named M'Lean fell down the held of the vessel, a distance of about 20ft., and sustained a…
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Two boys, Richard Burrows and Thomas Hadley, were standing on a swing boat at Rockdale on Saturday night, when Burrows, who resides at 641 King-street, Newtown, fell, head…
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