Bolting Horse Driver Injured at Leichhardt
A bolting horse caused a sensation in Parramatta-road Leichhardt, yesterday, and besides injuring the driver, smashed a £20 window in a millioner's shop…
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Found Drowned. a Tragic Ending to a Holiday
The works foreman of the Darwin (Northern Territory) town council, a man named Laurence Duggan, was found drowned in a Waterhole at…
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While endeavoring to open the [?]cup of it shell which had been brought back from the war as a souveair, William Land, [?] a glassblower, was killed at…
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The danger that lies in the careless handling of such war trophies as the nosecaps of shells, was illustrated yeterday afternoon, at Leichhard, when explosion caused the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Missed His Step in the Dark. a Farmer Drowned at Duranbah
The body of a well-known farmer of the Duranbah (N.S.W.) district, Mr. Cornellus Kelleher, was found floating in the Tweed River near the municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News of the Day From the Four Quarters Misadventures. Two Brothers Seriously Injured Near Sofala. Dragged by a Bolting Horse
Two brothers named Percy and Henry Foskett, living at Upper Turon, several miles from Sofala (N.S.W.), were driving towards their home on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Missed His Mark. a Girl Accidentally Shot at Oberon
A girl named Edith Wileox, the daughter of Mr. A. Wileox, of Oberon (N.S.W.), was accidentally shot by a boy who was firing at a tin. The bullet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Fatality Station Owner Killed
A well-known Queensland station owner, Mr. William Edward Collingridge, was killed in a motor smash at Ermington last night…
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William wallis, 18, went into the Manning River, near Ginal, fully dressed, to secure two punts to prevent them from drifting down the stream with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Car Fatality. Mr. W. E. Collingridge Killed
Willie trying to avoid some children playing in the roadway at Erminton late yesterday afternoon, a double-seat motor car, driven by Mr. William Edward Collingridge, skidded,…
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A fatal accident occurred at the German concentration camp, Holdsworthy, on 10th inst. Private W. Mastenson, who was employed at the camp, was brought into…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Pauline Frederick Drowned
For the first time in her professional career Pauline Frederick has been drowned. The forceful Goldwyn star says she has met death by incineration,…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Missing Diamond Causes Cycle Smash Two Riders Injured
A missing diamond, it was stated, was the cause of a bad smash at the Sports Ground cycling carnival last night…
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Mary Tarlinton, aged 50, a single woman, who lived in Alexandria-road, Glebe Point, was fatally crushed by a lorry in a vehicular entrance to a store…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Fatality. Kurri Kurri
While working at Stanford-Merthyr colliery on Friday William Coxon, miner, aged 49, was iInjured by a fall of coal smashing his legs and body. He died in Kurri Kurri Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Horse Injured Vet. Stitches Wound
A horse attached to a cab had to have seven stitches Inserted In his chest on Sunday owing lo Its having received Injuries in a collision at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Knocked Off Train Fatal Accident to Fireman BRISBANE
A fatal accident occurred on the goods train which left Roms-street early on Saturday morning for Toowoomba. Fireman J. H. Dalton, 27 was on top of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Accident. Train Dashes Into Gates. Wagga
A sensational railway accident occurred at the railway lovel crossing at the Wagga-Tarcutta road gates, when a well-known farmer and grazier had a narrow escape from a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Collision. Several Passengers Injured
WELLINGTON, N.Z., Monday. -- Several passengers were injured, two being admitted to hospital, and carriages were damaged in a railway accident which occurred on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →His Life for a Sheep Drever Drowned GOULBURN
John Thurlow, of Crookwell, was drowned in the Roseville Weir, just outside Goulburn, yesterday afternoon. Thurlow was droving sheep into…
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