Drowned While Surf Bathing. Brisbane
Robert Doran, accountant of the National Mutual Life Association was drowned while [?]urf bathing at Tweed Heads this morning. He and a friend (John George, head teacher…
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A Chaff-cutter Accident
Mr. Burrows, a farmer, residing at Cra[?]oon, near Gulgong, had his left arm taken off below the elbow by a chaff-cutter on Tuesday morning…
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A young married woman, Mrs. Pearl Warne, of Jerry's Plains, was accidentally shot on Sunday last. A boy was handling a Pea-rifle, when it was…
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Mr. Hawkins, City-Coroner, adjourned the inquiry which was hold yesterday concerning the death of Andrew Johnston (53), a native of Ireland, who had been remanded at the Central…
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Albert Mortimer (22), living in Church Street, Parramatta, was swimming in the Parramatta baths when he suddenly went under. His companions thought he was swimming under water,…
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While Mrs. Adelaide Rentell, Redhill, Clissold-parade, Canterbury, was absent from home yesterday afternoon, it was discovered that her house was on fire. Four rooms and…
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A surfous occident occurred on the Bankstown line this morning at Wardell-road Station, wkes Roy Jones, a laborer in the empty of the Railway Department, and residing at…
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Nellie Howard, aged 20, and Annie Howard, aged 17, sisters, were drowned in the Goulburn River, at Shepparton, today. They went for a swim at a dangerous part and…
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A fireman on a passenger train, while leaning out of his engine at Leura this morning, was struck by a passing goods train and badly injured about the head and shoulders…
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A shooting case occurred yesterday afternoon on Dalgety's Wharf, Miller's Point, as the result of which Henry Mobberley, 16, a carter's boy, living at 80 George Street, Waterloo, is in…
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A soldier was killed [?] near Cl[?]de this morning [?] passengers of a train [?]…
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Alice Learmont (50), a native of Scotland, died in a police patrol van on December 25, while being conveyed to Sydney Hospital from the Central Police Station. The City Coroner…
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Amongst the casualties recently treated at St. Joseph's Hospital have been the following:—Harold Wright (2), Hyde Park, Lidcombe, cut tongue through a fall; two…
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Mr. J. T. Eagle has the sympathy of a large circle of friends in the accident which befel him a few days ago, through which he is now an inmate of the…
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Mr. P. S. Poolman, District Coroner, held an inquiry at Liverpool into the death of Henry Augustus M'Shane, a soldier, whose mangled body was found on the railway…
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When Padova fell in the Maiden Handicap at Rosebery Park yesterday afternoon his rider, William Walker, aged 17, who lives in Barker-street, Kensington, was thrown. The…
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Clyde railway yards presented the appearance of a section in the firing line yesterday morning, alter two trains had come into strong collision on one of the roads on which…
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When Padova, fell in the Maiden Handicap at Rosebery Park on Saturday afternoon, his rider. William Walker, 17 years of age, living in Barker-street, Kensington, was thrown…
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The City of Florence, which passed Cape Shauck this morning at 11 o'clock, signalled that she had been in collision with a fourmasted schooner. The schooner's headgear was…
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Our Melbourne office advices that the steamer City of Florence, which left Sydney last Thursday for United Kingdom, via Albany, passed Cape…
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