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Mrs. Frances Burton Harrison, a well-known young society woman and a millionairess in her own right, was killed on Saturday in a motor-car accident in Long…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. T. E. MacNevin, S;M.. District Coroner, held an inquest on Saturday at Carlingford touching the death of Rachael Mobbs, a single woman, 61 years of age, whose dead body was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the end of last week a young man named William Pynor, of Galloway-street, Parramatta, had a narrow escape from drowning whilst bathing with several companies, near Ring's Bridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The body of a man named James Bohle (74), who resided by him self in a hut in Victoria-street, Sebastopol, was found floating face downwards in a dam at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At about 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon Wm. Strapps, clerk, went out in a canvas canoe about 14ft long, taking with him his sons Claude and Frank, aged 16 and 10 years…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A shocking accident occurred at Tarnagulla this evening. A man named John Wotherspoon had been out with the Rev. J. Rodger to Woodstock and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →While assisting to unload cargo on Saturday evening from the s.s. Moresby, which is lying at Messrs. Lover Brothers' Wharf, Balmain, a member of the crew, named Thomas Easton,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADELAIDE, Sunday.--A sad drowning fatality happened at Henley Beach yesterday afternoon, involving the death of Charles Arnold Caust, a young married man. who was residing at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the weekly meeting of the above society's executive committee (Mr. W. H. Cooke presiding), the hon. secretary (Mr. A. T. Hendry) stated that the ferry employees' class at North Sydney Baths and the police class at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Those who had friends coming from Newcastle were caused some anxiety on Saturday by the non-arrival of the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company's steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Saturday afternoon, James Easion, 60, a member of the crew of the steamer Moresby, lying at Lever Bros.' wharf, Balmain, slipped on the deck of the vessel, and sustained a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ADELAIDE, Sunday.--The weather has lately been very oppressive. Thomas Edwards, foreman of Jonzen's Salt Lake, near Yorketown, on Yorke's Peninsuln, received sunstroke…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A drowning fatality occurred at Buckelow Station, near Broken Hill, yesterday. R. G. Irvine with several others went bathing in a dam near the homestead. After being in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FORBES, Monday.--An old man, named M'Carthy, was accidentally drowned whilst bathing in the Lachlan River at Jemalong yesterday. He was a good swimmer, but became…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →John Lohm (40), a carter in the employment of Whitehead and Co., residing at Charles street, Surry-hills was driving his van near the railway station yesterday afternoon when it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MACLEAN, Monday.--Eugenc Castles, aged 6, son of Henry Castles, fell Into a well at Palmer's Channel yesterday, and was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A collision between a springcart, driven by a man named John Lohn, and a tram near the Redfern railway station, yesterday afternoon, resulted in Lohn sustaining a compound…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A man named R. G. Irvine, employed at Buckalow station, was drowned in a dam near the homestead yesterday. Irvine and several others went for a swim, but he got cramps,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A sad burning fatality occurred here on Saturday. Mrs. Marion Gale was employed boiling some tar, which took fire. In an instant the unfortunate woman was in flames,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. Matthew Willis, Senior Inspector of the Department of Public Instruction, met with a painful accident this morning, which resulted in his left thigh being broken…
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