Boating Fatality
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Two men were boating on the Murray River to-day at Torrumbarry. In midstream the boat capsized. John Bennett struggled to the Victorian bank, exhausted, but…
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Jockey Injured
James Curry, aged 15, a jockey, was schooling a horse over the hurdles at Randwick racecourse this morning when the animal crashed into the rails. Curry's two legs…
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A stack of timber collapsed at Messrs Goodlet and Smith's timber yard in Harrit-street, Pyrmont, early this afternoon, with the result that a loaborer, Andrew M'Enrowe, who lives…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—William Charles Batten (63), a smallgoods dealer, of Sunshine, was driving over the railway crossing at Sunshine on Saturday, when he was run down by tho 12.16…
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NORFOLK, Virginia, Friday Evening.--A launch, from the battleship Wyoming, overturned in Hampton Roads. The launch Is believed to have contained 19 men…
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While Joshua Brummett Laycock, aged 63, a poultry farmer, lay dying on the roadway, in Victoria-road, Gladesville, last Tuesday afternoon, a despicable thief got busy and…
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The crowd that frequented Coogee Beach on Sunday provided plenty of work for the local St. John Ambulance men, and accidents—though none of a serious nature—were frequent. So…
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A shocking railway accident happened on the railway line about two miles from Murtoa last night. Harry Ferry, a railway ganger, and his wife and two children, were…
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Walter Goldsmith was accidentally shot in the back while out shooting on Little Dingo Creek on Saturday. Under the Cafe of Dr. Kelly the patient is improving, though several…
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Mrs. Gamble, of mark Lodge, Fairland, [?] a remarkable experience on Wednesday last, when an imported collie dog at the house become affected by the heat and suddenly went…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Late on Saturday night Henry Ferry, a ganger, was riding along the railway line near Murtoa, on a trolly, with his wife and two children, when a light engine…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Two men were boating on the Murray River to-day at Torrumbarry. In midstream the boat capsized. John Bennett struggled to the Victorian bank, exhausted, but…
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WOODSTOCK, Monday. -- Mrs. Howard, cook at the Royal Hotel, Woodstock, who was burnt by her clothes catching fire on Saturday morning, died in the Cowra Hospital on Saturday night…
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NARROMINE, Monday. -- Herbert Sydney Siemmson, aged 15 years, was drowned on Friday. The boy, with his father and brother, was bathing in the Macquarie River, and none of the…
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A jockey, Robert Perry, 15 years of age, residing at Barntree-street, Randwick, was riding a racecourse on the Randwick course yesterday. When the animal ran too close to the…
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Holford Gordon Roderick, who was injured by falling from a staging on the cruiser Brisbane, in Cockatoo Dock, last week, died in the Balmain Hospital on Saturday from injuries to the…
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Through ' the back and front wheels of a motor car collapsing near Beaumaris last night, five people were injured. The occupants of the car were Mr. Copeland, who received…
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Borambie tells me that one of his horse developed lameness after taking a wire fence. He is to double as to the seal of injury, but has noticed that the shoulder projects…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Determined to Swim. Sailor Drowned
The determination of Cecil Edward Newton, aged 21, an A.B. aboard H.M.A.S. Penguin, cost him his life. He could not swim, but told his fellow sailors that he would go…
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Herbert Sydney Siemmson, 15, the son of Mr. C. H. Siemmson, of Burroway, Narromine, was drowned on Friday. The accident occurred near the boy's home, about 17 miles…
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