Rifle Shooting Accident. Cooma
Mr. S. Flatman met with a shooting accident at Rocklodge on Saturday. He carried a Winchester rifle, and, when climbing over a wire fence holding the muzzle of the gun…
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Fatal Accident. Parramatta
Edward Lucas, 73, an inmate of the George-street Asylum, fell from the Rydalmere Bridge to-day, and was killed…
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The case was continued at the Central Criminal Court yesterday afternoon in which a married woman named Annie Johnston was charged with feloniously and maliciously…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday.--Fifty people were stricken with ptomaine poisoning this afternoon, at the Chinemuri races. The victims wore carried to Panora on stretchers, and the…
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COOMA, Monday.--A young man named Sydney Flatman, working at Rock Lodge, went out shooting on Saturday with a small "Winchester rifle. He was getting over a fence and holding…
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WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday,--The mysterious disappearance of Mrs. H. Goswell, of Belmore, Sydney, from Raymond Terrace on Friday night, where she had been on a visit to…
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A frightful burning accident happened at Skipton to-day. Andrew Clarke lost his life in a fire, which destroyed his residence. Mrs. Clarke, who is 83, and an invalid for years,…
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K. Ohlsen, 37 years of age, a coallumper, sustained a fracture of the left elbow and several bruises by a fall of 40ft yesterday afternoon. Ohlsen was engaged in coaling…
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ARMIDALE, Tuesday. --This afternoon a horse attached to a cab bolted. The vehicle was smashed, and the driver, W. Assan, injured, and admitted to the hospital…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--At Horsham to-day a boy named Leslie Nattrass, 16, was assisting an elder brother to cut chaff, when he accidentally fell across the machine, and sustained…
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Mr. Macfarlane, S.M., sitting in the Water Summons Court, heard a case against William Cranfield, of Sirius Cove, who was proceeded against by Sub-Inspector M'Vane on…
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Captain Newton, Acting-Superintendent of the Navigation Department, has held a preliminary inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the collision at Middle Harbour, in…
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At the Water Summons Court yesterday Sub-inspector M'Vane proceeded against William Cranfield, of Sirius Cove, on an information that he did unlawfully ply for…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--A gas explosion of unusual severity, by which Captain and Mrs. Wymark and their niece were injured, and a room wrecked, occurred at Williamstown late…
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Patrick W. Bowen, a telegraph linesman, residing at Crown-street, Surry Hills, had an unpleasant experience yesterday morning. He was repairing a tram wire at the corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Serious Shooting Case. Quarrel at Petersham. Three People Injured
A serious domestic quarrel occurred at Petersham last night, as a result of which two persons were convoyed to the hospital suffering from bullet wounds inflicted, it is said, by an…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Petersham Sensation. a Family Quarrel. the Revolver in Use. Two Men and a Woman Injured
As the result of what appears to have been a family quarrel at Petersham last night three people are now hospital inmates, two at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Earthquake's Toll. Fearful Death Roll in Formosa One Thousand Killed--seven Hundred Injured. London, Tuesday, 3.15 p.m
The late earthquake in Formosa has involved appalling loss of life. In one district alone no fewer than 1000 persons were killed and 700 others injured…
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Two collisions, in which trams took a part, happened yesterday, but fortunately both were unattended by serious results. In the morning an Erskine-street to Watson's Bay…
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William Corless, the boundary rider on Oban station, was out on the run to-day on horseback, when the horse stumbled, causing his rifle to be discharged. The bullet lodged in…
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