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The Inverell Jockey Club held its annual meeting to-day on the Goodwood course. Although the day was very hot there was a good attendance. A serious accident occurred in the New Year's Gift. Calamut,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The second day's racing in connection with the Queensland Turf Club was held at Eagle Farm to-day. The weather was extremely hot, and the attendance large. In the Heavy Weight Handicap Edgar…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →H. Stuckey, who fractured his kneecap on the Cricket Ground on Saturday, is reported as doing well. The broken bone has been wired together, but it will take a long time to k[?]it…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A serious accident occurred this afternoon at th[?] meeting of the Newcastle Jockey Club. During th[?] running of the January Handicap, Neptune, who was ridden by Worrall, fell at the end of the first…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →William Anthony, a young man employed at the Queen Victoria Markets, was the victim of a rather serious accident this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The jockeys F. Cash and Werrall, were admitted to the Newcastle Hospital yesterday afternoon, suffering from injuries received on the racecourse while riding in the January Handicap, the principal race of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yesterday morning John and David Gibson, sons of a widow, went for a bathe in the dam at the Burrangong Dredgi[?] Company's property. Neither of them could swim, and,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Rev. W. G. Froomes, Church of England minister at Copmanhurst, was drowned whilst bathing in the Clarence River. He ended to swim across…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further particulars of the burning fatal[?]ty at Blackall Range, which resulted in the death of Mr. and Mrs. Burgess, have been received by the police. Mr. Burgess' statement…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This morning two men saw a body in the Mulwarree River, near the gasworks, and it was removed from the water and subsequently identified as that of a woman named Bailey…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →When the barque Meinwen arrivod in Hobson's Bay from Liverpool on December 27, Captain R. H. Potter had an exceptional report to make of his vessel's voyage, and the state of deeks…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →It has become a chronic complaint with many pastoralists to inveigh against "too much closer settlement." As a reason for their complaint they assert that as selection…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tales of extensive losses by bush fires, both in wheat, stock, and homesteads, are still coming to hand from the huge area over which the conflagration travelled. It was reported…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Terang races on Monday were attended by between 9000 and 10,000 persons. Steady rain fell nearly the whole afternoon. The racing was poor, excepting in one or two…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The twin-screw steamer Kuranda, under charter by the Adelaide Steamship Company, and running in the Spencer Gulf trade, was due to reach Port Adelaide from Port Lincoln on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →William A[?]thony, aged 21, residing in Stanmore-road, was taken to the Sydney Hospital by the Civil Ambulance yesterday with a compound fracture of his left leg. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stanley Kerr 21, residing at Nicholson-street, Tempe, was engaged at work, at the running shed, Eveleigh, when a piece, of steel flow into his right eye, causing very…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →During the last few days there have been but few accident cases calling for attention at the Parramatta Hospital. C. Luckey (18), butcher, of Harris Park…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An accident of a very sensational and painful nature occurred to Mr. George Purdon, manager of Mr. Foy's farm at Medlow Bath. He was in the act of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A man named William Fenwick, who is on a visit to Sydney, had a narrow escape from drowning at Manly yesterday. He was bathing in the surf, when he was carried out by the…
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