Accidentally Shot
While playing with a small pistol last evening Claude Newell (14), living at Reiby-streot, Newtown, was shot in the abdomen, the weapon going off unexpectedly. The lad was admitted…
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Fatalities and Accidents. Burned to Death
Elsie Symons, a little girl, was so severely burned in Stanley-street, Balmain, on Monday night while playing at a fire with her little brother that she died in the Balamain Hospital…
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The circumstances surrounding the death of Joseph Thomas Bennett (69), who resided at Forest-road. Hurstville, and whose body was found in the water near Sandringham on…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Leslie Hughes, 17, living at Ascotvale, was bathing in the Saltwater River to-day with some friends. Unable to swim more than a few strokes, he got out of…
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Mr. A. N. Barnett, the City Coroner, conducted an inquiry yesterday into the death of Joseph Thomas Bennett, aged 69, a butcher, whose body was found floating in the water…
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To-day a youth named Leslie Hughes was drowned when bathing with a number of other young men in the Saltwater River. Hughes who was not a strong swimmer, had only been…
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A number of boys were diving yesterday for the body of the lad Bartholomew Farrell. who was drowned in a waterhole at Marrickville on Tuesday, and about 11 o'clock Charles…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A seven-year-old boy, David Lynch, left his home in Cardigan-street on Monday morning. As he did not return home, his mother, who was almost distracted,…
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BROKEN-HILL, Wednesday.--John He[?], a miner, employed in the Proprietary Block 12, was injured this morning by a fall of ground…
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A resident of Pyrmont-street, named Walter Herbert Joab, was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital by the Civil Ambulance and Transport Corps yesterday afternoon suffering from…
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Walter Henry Job, 32, a labourer, living at Pyrmont-street, Pyrmont, was riding a bicycle along Waverley-road, Woollahra yesterday, when he came into collision with…
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The death of John Smith, an elderly man, which occurred in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital was the subject of an inquest by the city coronet. Mr. A. N. Barnett, yesterday morning…
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The death of an elderly man named Joseph Thomas Bennett, who was found drowned in Botany Bay, near Sandringham, on December 24 last, formed the subject of an inquiry…
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The Vancouver mail, which arrived yesterday, brought news of a collision between two vessels on November 9. One was the steamship Dix, on the Scattle-Port Blakeley route,…
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CASINO, Wednesday.--Last night the incoming Tenterfield-Casino, mail coach overturned near Sandilands Range, about 30 miles out. The passengers were badly injured. The coach…
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The Newtown Fire Brigade received a call this morning for a fire at No.6 Wells-street, St. Peters, and on arrival a blaze was discovered in one of the bedrooms of the house,…
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A horse attached to a buggy, and driven by James Gillies, 19 took fright and holted down Harris-street, Byrmont this afternoon. The animal turned into Wattle-street, where it was…
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Another illustration was furnished yesterday, afternoon at Bondi Bench of the dangers attendant upon surf bathing. Incidentally, also, of the inadequate life-saving appliances…
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A. B., T. G. F., and S. E. F. write stating, in reference to the surf-bathing accident at Maroubra on Sunday, that Mr. M'Gechie, of Maroubra, was the first to go to the rescue…
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Yesterday Mr. George Whitfield Clark, whilst riding on a bicycle to Armidale, down a hill was thrown. Dr. Wigan had to put several stitches in his forehead…
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