Fijian Hurricane Two Brothers Drowned. Suva
Later particulars regarding Monday night's disastrous hurricane show that slight damage was sustained at Lautoka. The steamer Large Law grounded, but was…
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Both Ankles Fractured Tramway Employee Injured
Lindsay Hunter, aged 21 years, living a Mosman, was the victim of a serious accident yesterday. He was employed at the Mosman tram sheds, and while working there…
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George Allen, one of the saloon passengers by the steamer Atua, which arrived from Fiji yesterday, was the victim of a nasty accident. When the vessel anchored at the…
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James M'Hattie, aged 23, employed in the locomotive sheds at Hamilton, was run over by a passing train last night, and killed. He was a single man, and was a son of…
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Shortly before 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon a German sa[?]or named K[?]t Obermayer, aged 21, while working on a staging fixed from a punt moored alongside the German…
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The German steamer Schwaben, lying at the Circular Quay, was the scene of a fatal accident yesterday. It seems that about half-past 2 o'clock two of the seamen were…
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At about 2.30 yesterday afternoon two sailors from the N.D.L. freight steamer Schwaben which is lying at Circular Quay, were standing on a punt painting the stern of that vessel…
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BULLI, Thursday.--This afternoon, a miner named Cavanah, working at Bulli colliery, met with a serious accident. It appears he had prepared to shoot down a fall of coal, and fired the…
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PAMBULA, Thursday.--Frank Beath, working at improvements to the Merimbula wharf, was severely Injured, to- day by a fall of rock He was taken to Pambula. Hospital…
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David Fraser,a carter employed by Messrs. I Tooth and Company, met with a nasty accident this morning outside the Great Southern Hotel, George street, Haymarket. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor and Bicycle Collision on the Gordon-road
Cornelius O'Toole was charged on summons before Mr. Love, S.M., at the North Sydney Court yesterday with negligently driving a motor-car, so as to endanger the lives of…
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A sequel to the death of Daniel Hyde, a cab-driver, who was killed in a collision with a tramcar in George-street, Sydney, last May, was heard before Mr. Justice Pring and a…
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ROCKHAMPTON, Thursday.--A ballast train, while returning from Blackall extension to Jericho, last night, ran into a bullock on the line. Several trucks were derailed, and Patrick…
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The girl Edith Correll, w[?]o was severely burned on Monday afternoon while near a fire in a copper, died in the hospital last night…
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LISMORE, Thursday.--A magisterial inquiry was held to-day into the drowning on Sunday last at Jiggi of James Garbett and a verdict of accidental death was' recorded…
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A finding of accidental death was returned at an inquest held this morning by the. City Coroner into the death of Kurt Obennayer, 21, a seaman employed on the German…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--Charles Russell, 40 years of ago, of Williams town, who was employed at the sewerage excavations, met with a serious accident to-day. He was engaged at…
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Yesterday afternoon, while several men, were engaged in excavating for the purpose of laying the foundation of a building in Pitt-street, opposite the Water and Sewerage Board's…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sensational Explosion. Gas Leakage and Matches. Several Persons Injured. Melbourne
A serions gas explosion occurred at the corner of Balmain and Green streets Richmond this evening when tho grocer's shop of Mr. E. S. Nicholis was practically wrecked…
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The eleven-year-old son of a lawyer at Savana[?] Lake. New York State, has, says the "New York Herald," been paralysed as the result of playing diabolo…
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