An Injured Jockey. Perth (W.a.)
The jockey J. Kent, whose skull was fractured when Gerardv fell with him in the Club Hurdle Race yesterday, is improving, although his condition is still critical…
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Death of a Famous Rugby Player. the Great Taiaroa Drowned
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday.--Jack Taiaroa, once famous as a Rugby player, was drowned in Otago to-day. Taiaroa visited Australia with the first New Zealand team in 1884,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pea-rifle and Its Victims. Two Lads Injured. One Dies in a Few Minutes
GOULBURN, Thursday.--Richard Whale, about 19, of Hornsby, who is now on holidays at Chatsbury, was admitted to the Goulburn Hospital, yesterday, suffering from the effects of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Driving Accident. Rockley
A driving accident occured yesterday afternoon. Mr. Smith, police magistrate, and his daughter, Eva, were coming from Trunkey, When about four miles from here, the horse…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Alpine Accidents This Year
"The Playground of Europe," as Sir Leslie Stephen called the Swiss Alps, has for many, been a graveyard; a fact, the "Laneet" points out, which experience from year to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sad Drowning Fatality. Frail Boat Turns Turtle. Two Girls Lose Their Lives
MELBOURNE, Friday.--Two girls, Ivy Williams, aged 18, who lived at Moonee Ponds, and Gladys Raisbock, aged 16, a resident of Newmarket, whose father was a municipal…
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PERTH, Friday.--J. Kent, the jockey who was injured in a hurdle race on Perth course, died to-night without regaining consciousness. This is the second fatality in hurdle events…
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COOMA, Friday.--A youth, Albert Dawking (17), who was acting-telephone attendant at the Cooma post-office, went out yesterday to the mill-house on the Murrumbidgee River, about…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fatalities and Accidents. Laborer Seriously Injured
Thomas Bugler, a laboror, residing in Carey-street, Leichhardt, met with a serious accident while working on a sewerage excavation at Ashfield yesterday afternoon. He was tipping the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Tram Guard Injured
Alexander M'Cullum, 27, a tram guard, residing in Lister-street. Paddington was attempting to alight from a tram in motion in Oxford-street, near Dowing-street, this…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Boys Drowned While Bathing. Cooma
A young man named Albert Dawking, 17, formerly a telegraph messenger at Cooma Post-office, and lately telephone attendant, was drowned in the Murrumbidgee River…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A Shocking Fatality. Horse Backs Over an Embankment. A Mother's Terrible Ordeal
On New Year's Day, a party, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. D. Cody, their two little girls, Ida, aged 7; Marie, 18 months; P. J. Levey, and W. M. Malone, had been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collision Outside Port Phillip. Collier Glaucus and Steamer Wareatea. Marine Board Inquiry
MELBOURNE, Friday.--The Marine Board, at its sitting to-day, was surprised to learn that a collision had taken place outside Port Philip Heads on November 30 between the collier…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Boating Tragedy Capsize in Port Phillip. Two Girls Drowned. Man's Long Swim. Melbourne
A boating accident occurred in Port Phillip this afternoon, when two girls, Gladys Raisbeck and Ivy Williams, were drowned by the capsizing of a yacht, and Edward Slater, a…
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At about half-past 2 on Thursday afternoon, whilst bottling at the rack in his cordial factory in Stationstreet, Mr E W Bronger was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Curious Accident. Wheelbarrow Fallls on a Man
A laborer named Thomas Bugler, resiling in Carey-street, Leichhardt, met with a serious accident yesterday afternoon. He was engaged with several other men in doing some sewe age…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Miners' Accident Fund. Helensburgh
A meeting of the employees of the Metropolitan Colliery was held at the School of Arts last night for the purpose of electing a local committee to conduct the business of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Rookwood Mystery. the Police Theory. Accidental Fall From Cart
Recent developments tend somewhat to strengthen the police theory that the man John Tidswell was not the victim of an assault. On Thursday evening Tidswell made a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motor Accident. Travelling 85 Miles an Hour. London, Jan. 3
Tryon, driving a 60-horse-power Napier motor car on the Brooklands course, at the rate of 85 miles an hour, burst a tyre. The motor, jumped the embankment, and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Kicked by a Horse Verdict of Accidental Death
The inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of John Francis Woods at the Sydney Hospital on Boxing Day, from injuries received by a kick from a horse, was…
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