Casualties. Woman Found Drowned
The body of a woman was found in the Parramatta River yesterday afternoon, and the Parramatta police are awaiting its identification. The body is that of a woman…
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Drowned in a Dam. Parkes
William Roy Ross, aged 17, was drowned in a dam near the Deep Lead on Friday. Ross went in bathing With a younger brother, and apparently took a fit whilst in the water…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Drowned While Surf-bathing. Gosford
Arthur David Lockwood, aged about 55, was drowned while surf-bathing at Wamberal yesterday afternoon. He was caught by the undertow and washed out, and several…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Three Jockeys Injured. Newcastle
During the racing at Wallsend on Saturday three horses fell, and the jockeys received injuries. in the second race there was a restless…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →S.S. Mataram Damaged. Collision with Wharf
A preliminary inquiry into the collision, which occurred between the s.s. Mataram and the wharf at Port Darwin is to be held on Thursday…
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A woman named Mary Agnes Evans was committed for trial at the Newtown Police Court, on Thursday, on a charge of having thrown a quantity of corrosive…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bombs on Kent a Moonlight Raid Futile Hun Flight Over English Towns. Several Persons Injured
Taking advantage of the bright moonlight, a German aeroplane floated over the East Coast of Kent about one o'clock on Sunday morning and dropped several…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shunting Accident at Ryde
A shunting accident at the [?] about midday on Monday which caused some excitement,was [?] by any serious result.A goods train that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Extraordinary Accident. [?]
An [?] man felling a [?] was[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Bush Fires. Accidental and Otherwise
A fire occurred last week on Mr. S. F. Lee's property. The Gap, Molong, starting in a stubble paddock.The flames surrounded the wheat paddocks, but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to a Soldier. Leg crushed by a Train
As the Sydney mail train was about to leave the Junce railway station on Saturday, a returned soldier, wounded at Gallipoli, named James M'Donald, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Racing Accidents
In the Welter Handicap at the Wallsend Races on Saturday, Maid of Argyle and Murringo fell. A. Newstand, the rider of the former, sustained injuries to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to a Soldier
Private Robert Spicer, a member of the 18th Battalion, fell from the platform of a passenger train at Guildford on Friday night, and was badly hurt about the head. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatalities & Accidents. Under a Fall of Earth
Joseph Pratt, living at 93 Fitzroy Street, Moore Bark, narrowly escaped being buried alive yesterday morning. Pratt was working in a trench at the corner of Forbes and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Night Watchman Drowned
The [?] of [?] Denton, as, of [?] street, Lin[?], who was [?] watchman on the Hurber Trust [?] was [?] in was water [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatality at Milson Island
The State Commandant (Colonel Ramaciotti) states that a gambling-dispute, which occurred among soldiers confided on Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, led to a free fight, and before the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Found Drowned in the River. A Well-known Resident
On Monday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, a man named Geo. Brien, of Harold-street, Parramatta, whilst pulling up the saltwater river just below the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alderman Injured. Motorist and Wheat Waggon Collide Molong
An empty wheat wagxon, drawn by the [?] and drives by Norman Dunn, and a [?] ridden by Alderman was Cole, of [?] near the railway yard. The [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Knocked Down by Motor. Accident in Oxford-street
Through being knocked down by a motor car at the corner of Oxford and Riley streets, City on Tuesday afternoon, Puggy Lloyd, 25, of Gralton-street, Woollabra, and Rachel Lakin…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatalities & Accidents. Killed on the Railway
An inquiry was held at the Hornsby Police Court, before Mr. H. Richardson Clark, District Coroner, into the death of Henry Bruce (27), whose mutilated body was found on the…
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