Deaths by Drowning
This is the season of the year drowning fatalities. These fatalities are alway inexpressibly sad, and cast quite a damper on the holiday spirit…
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Plucky Cyclists Six Days' Reliability Many Accidents 770 Miles Over Bad Roads
Punctures, badly damaged machines, and hold-ups through washaways and floods were some of the many difficulties experienced by the contestants in…
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A man of about 60 years of age was seen to fall over the Manly ferry steamer Barrenjoey shortly before 11 o'clock on Saturday morning, when the boat was near Dobrojd Point. The…
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Edward Fox, aged 20, an apprenticed jockey, Chesterfield-parade, Waverley, was thrown while riding a horse along Church-street, Randwick, at 9.30 a.m…
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This morning two men driving along Condong-road noticed the body, of a man in the river. The police successfully dragged for the body, which was in an advanced…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Midnight Drive Mother and Daughter Killed Several Injured Victoria Motor Accident MELBOURNE
The collapsing of the off back wheel of a motor following the overturning of the car down an embankment on the main Healesville and Lillydale to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jockey Injured Thrown From a Horse
Edward For 1201, jockey, Hying at Chesterfield Parade, Waverley, was everclsing, a horse in Chursh-street, Randwick, to-day when he was thrown to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pinned Under Cart Poultry Farmer Drowned BRISBANE
A g[?]some discovery was made by a resident of Blunder-road, Oxley,. on Saturday, when in a wash-out on that road he found the body of a neighbor under…
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The high velocity of the wind yesterday was responsible for the drowning, at Saratoga, near Woy Woy of Thomas William Spencer, aged 3 years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →N.z. Aeroplane Smash Pilot Fatally Injured
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sunday. -- An Avro machine, belonging to the Canterbury (N.Z.) Aviation Co., Ltd., which was on a flight from Kalkoura to Christchurch, crashed near…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tragic Shooting. One Man Killed. Others Gravely Injured. Melbourne
Just as scores of people in North Brighton were waiting up to see the old year out five revolver shots were fired in a weatherboard villa, and in the shooting Joseph Rainsbury,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Smashes. Two Killed and Four Injured. Car Over Embankment
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The collapse of the off back wheel of a motor car, and consequent overturning of the car down an embankment on the main Healesville and Lllydale to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Six Killed; Fourteen Injured the New Year Holiday Roll Melbourne's Grim Week-end
Intermingted with the happiness which has long been customary with the unbering is of a New Year Comes the reports of [?] to mar the happiness of many bemes. 1. New South Wales Loss of life has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Swimming Accidents. Hobart
Two drowning accidents marred the commencement of the New Year holidays in Sotuhern Tasmania during the week-end. The first occuried in the Plenty Rivre, whore Claude…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ex-ambassador's Death Result of Taxi Accident VANCOUVER, December 31
A message from New York states that Baron Rosen a farmer Russian Ambassador, has died following injuries received in a taxi-cab accident…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne to Sydney Attempt at Record Motor Cycle Accident Albury
Messrs. J. Wilson and Hough left Melbourne at 2.30 a.m. on Sunday in an Excelsior motor cycle and side car in an attempt to break the record between…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatalities & Accidents Boy Falls From Tree
Vincent Roberts (12), living at 31 Henry Avenue, Ultimo, fell 12 feet from a tree in Wentworth Park yesterday afternoon, injuring his right shoulder and sustaining concussion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boating Fatality
The body of Alwin Koletzke, who, together with Charles Heskcth, was accidentally drowned at Woy Woy on December 28 through a skiff capsizing, was recovered yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Drowning Cases. Murwillumbah
Trank Hardwick, of Sydney, who has been in Murwillumbah a few weeks, was drowned at Chinderah yesterday. Deceased was out in a sailing boat with Harold Piercy and Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fatalities & Accidents Stable Boy Injured
While exercising a racehorse in Church Street, Randwick, yesterday, Edward Fox, aged 20, employed at Randwick as a stable boy, was thrown to the ground. and was dragged…
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