Shocking Mining Fatality
BROKEN HILL, Tuesday.--A minor, John Alexander May (26), was killed, and James Lockey (45) was seriously injured in the Central mine this morning while working in the 1100ft…
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German Airmen Drowned
A lifeboat at Schiermonnikoog Island answered the distress signals of a German waterplane, which was stranded on a sandbank…
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Last Saturday [?] drowned near North Steyne, Manly[?] through being caught in the undertow. At an inquiry held on Tuesday by the City Coroner[?] Alfred…
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Elsie Grant, 9, and her sister, [?] Grant, 8, were drowned yesterday afternoon whilst bathing in Cook's River, near Undercliffe Bridge. Their bodies were recovered…
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Thomas Winterbottom, 19, whilst racing on a bicycle at the Sydney Sports Ground, on Monday night, fell and broke his collar bone. He was conveyed by the Civil Ambulance to…
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Cross appeals arising out of the case of Griffin Fletcher, against Androw Cook, Ltd., were before their Honers. The action, which was heard before Mr. Justice Sly and a jury,…
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WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.--Mr. and Mrs. H. Hartley, of Port Kembla, accompanied by a visitor from Melbourne, were driving home from Wollongong last night, and when going over the…
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The drowning of Robert Cyril Scott (18), University student, which occurred in Cook's River, Canterbury, on February 17, formed the subject of an inquiry by Mr, M. H. Fitzhardinge,…
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Robert Wylie Clark (an infant, 9 years of age), by his next friend. James Clark, 42 Emmett Street, North Sydney, canister maker, brought an action before Judge Murray,…
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Charles Dove, a sailor on the Yulgilbar. while assisting to ship cedar logs from the river to the boat at Kempsey last night, was drowned. Deceased was on a log in the…
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William Erson, 45, working on the Propietary mine zinc plant, was caught in the belting while on duty this morning and killed. Erson was found edged in between the belting…
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John Alex, May, 26, married, was killed, and James Lockey, 45, single, was seriously injured as the result of an explosion at Central mine early this morning through boring into an…
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The inquest concerning the death of Nell Peter Nellsen, 27, a cripple, was concluded at the Coroner's Court this morning. After saving the life of a boy, Alfred Forns, in the surf…
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In an interview published in New York Lord Charles Beresford states:--"Germany will not sink an American ship except by design, for the express purpose of…
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KURRI KURRI, Wednesday.—John Kaveney, a child, six years old, was climbing into a bullock waggon which was being unloaded of pit props, at Neath Colliery when slipped off…
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Reg Elliott, aged 22, a shunter, who was injured at Simpson’s Siding, near Casino, on Saturday, January 23, has since died in the local…
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At the Southport Police Court on Friday, Bertram Gordon Ratcliffe, driver of a motor car, was charged with manslaughter in connection with, the death of…
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Elsie Grant, aged nine years, and her sister, Dorothy Grant, aged eight, were drowned on Tuesday, afternoon while bathing in Cook's River, Sydney, near…
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At Boonah on Sunday three boys were bathing, when one, Ernest Kuskey, aged ten years, got beyond his depth and was drowned. Deceased was the son of Mr…
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