Accident to a Mail Coach. Thrown Over an Embankment. Driver's Ankle Fractured
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 10
RAYMOND TERRACE, Friday.--The mail coach from Gloucester to Raymond Terrace met with an accident two miles out this afternoon, delaying it for about an hour and a half. The…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 9
MARULAN, Friday.--A young man named Middleton, a teacher in Tasmania, who was spending his holidays at Tallong, when out shooting yesterday, caught his pea rifle by the…
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Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1908 · page 12
A boating accident occurred in Port Phillip on Friday, when two girls, Gladys Raisbeck and Ivy Williams, were drowned by the capsizing of a yacht, and Edward Slater, a young man who…
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Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1908 · page 7
An accident occurred this afternoon at too scene of the Elizabeth—street fire last month. Richard Payne. while engaged in pulling down the wall, was struck on top…
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Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1908 · page 12
While out fishing at Tarriaro, near Narrabri, on Wednesday, a sulky occupied by David Cody and his two children, aged 7 years and 18 months respectively, was backed over the bank of the…
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The Sunday Sun · Sunday 5 January 1908 · page 1
A tram guard named Alexander M'Culloch, aged 27, who resides in Leinster-street, Paddington, missed his footing from the footboard of the tram of which he was in charge when…
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Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1908 · page 12
Mr. Walter Neve, an old resident of Newcastle, was drowned on the ocean beach while surf—bathing on Sunday morning. This is the third fatality of the kind at…
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Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1908 · page 12
A motor car containing Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., and the Mayor of Welligton (N.Z.), capsized over an embankment near Johnsonville, a Wellington suburb. Mr. Mardie was badly bruised…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1908 · page 6
COOMA, Saturday.--A magisterial inquiry was held by Mr. James H. Montague, deputy coroner, to-day touching the death of Albert Dawking (17), telephone assistant at Cooma Post-office…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In WooUoomooloo Bay. Chief Officer Saves Drowning Boy
Evening News · Monday 6 January 1908 · page 5
A little boy named Frederick Williams, who lives in Bland-street, Woolloomooloo, was playing on the Cowper Wharf, Woolloomooloo Bay this morning, when he fell into the water. The…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1908 · page 6
BROKEN-HILL, Saturday.--The acting-coroner held an inquest to-day into the death of James Coniskey, who was injured in the Proprietary mine on Monday, last, and died at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatalities and Accidents. Phosphorus Poisoning
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1908 · page 6
Ellen Collard (38), a late resident of Little Mount-street, Pyrmont, died on Friday night at the Sydney Hospltal from phosphorus poisoning. Deceased's husband slated that his wife was…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1908 · page 8
R. Mashford, of the Northern Suburbs Club, who had rather a nasty fall at the Highland Gathering on Wednesday through colliding with another rider who had punctured, is now getting along all right, and except…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 7
Frederick Williams, a little boy residing at Bland-street, Woolloomooloo, while playing on Cowper Wharf, Woolloomooloo Bay, yesterday morning, fell into the water. Mr. J. J. Jackson,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 8
At the inquiry concerning the, death of Charles Middleton, 24, who was killed at Tallong, through the explosion of a pea rifle, a finding of accidental death was returned…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 7
An accident occurred to the mail coach on Friday, between Stroud and Raymond Terrace, through the horses taking fright at a load of wood, the long pieces of which were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Cintra Collision. Finding of the Marine Board. Master Exonerated
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 8
BRISBANE, Monday.--The shipping inspector and engineer-surveyor presented to the Marine Board to-day a report into the circumstances attending the Cintra's collision with the wharf…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 8
A report was presented to the Marine Board to-day of the preliminary inquiry held into the circumstances attending the collision of the steamer Cintra with the wharf at Townsville…
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The Australian Star · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 1
Recent far-reaching Workman's Compensation Acts have made employers of labour anxious to reduce to a minimum the risk of accidents (writes a London correspondent). In the "World's Work" for December…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 8
John Charles Roberts (34), a printer, residing at Mosley-street, Strathfield, fell from a train whilst at was running between Lewisham and Petersham yesterday afternoon, and sustained,…
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