Motoring Accidents. Murwillumbah
Mr. W. Dinsey, of, Cudgen Headland, with Mrs. Dinsey and his niece, was driving home in a car, when it struck a stump on tho side of the road. Mrs. Dinsey was thrown through…
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Child Accidentally Shot. Dubbo
Arthur Emery, aged 7 years, while playing in the yard of the Castlereagh Hotel, Dubbo, climbed into a motor cat, in which he found a fully-loaded revolver. The weapon exploded…
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CALCUTTA. Jan. 25.--Informal has been received that Mr. W. J. Good secretary to the Calcutta Port Commissioners, who was holidaying in the…
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PORT MACQUARIE. -- The two-year-old daughter of Mr. Kuhn walked into some hot ashes and burnt the skin off the soles of both her feet…
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Terribly mutilated, the body of Sydney Burton, aged 40, a lift mechanic, employed by the Waygood-Otis Company, was yesterday morning recovered from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lift Fatality. Trapped in the Shaft
Sidney Burton, a lift mechanic, in the employ of Waygood-Otis (Aust.) Pty., Ltd., was examining the switch on the ground floor of the lift shaft at Chathar House, in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Collision. Darling Harbour. Two Cargo Steamers
While berthing in Darling Harbour yesterday morning the cargo steamers Whangape and Kooyong came into collision, the Whangape sustaining severe damage…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Athlete Injured Struck by Iron Bar
Stanley Bether, aged 24, who is well-known in aborting circles, received concussion yesterday when an iron bar, weighing 50lb., fell from a shelf and…
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A man whose name is not known fell 45ft from a building in course of construction at the University grounds to-day. The Civil Ambulance…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Man Injured on Railway. Lithgow, Wedneaday
A message from Kandos states that a shocking accident occurred at the cement works on Tuesday afternoon, when Samuel Freeman, aged 60 years, was knocked down by a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Harbor Collision Federal Inquiry To=day Two Steamers Damaged
The Deputy Director of Navigation, Captain Williams, this morning opened the preliminary Inquiry Into tho collision between the steamers Whangape and Kooyong which occurred in Darling Harbor yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Killed by Trucks Accident at Kandos RYLSTONE
At Kandos Cement Works Samuel Freeman was knocked down and run over by trucks during shunting operations. He died within a [?] of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How Jockey Haldon Came by His Death Coroner Return Verdid of Accidental Death--Fell at Seven Furlong Hurdle
The story of how John William Haldon, a Jockey, was killed while riding in the Hurdle Race at Randwick on February 16, was told to the City…
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DUNGOG. -- A motor car containing two men -- Mr. Smith, of the Valuer-General's Department, and a younger man -- bumped a culvert at Brookfield, near Dungog, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Trams Leap Rails Two Accidents Narrow Escapes Double Bay Sensations
Two sensational tram accidents occurred within a quarter of a mile of each other at Double Bay last night. Cars bound for the city leaped the…
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Sydney Burton, aged 40, a lift mechanic, in the employ of Waygood-Otis (Aust.) Pty., Ltd., was examining the switch on the ground floor of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy Drowned
Dragged into Water by Dog. A nine-year-old boy named John Mc-Kay was a drowned in sight of his father in a small lagoon at Manly (Sydney) on Sunday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lift Fatality. a Mechanic Mutilated
A lift mechanic Sidney Burton, employed by the Waygood Otis (Aust.) pty., Ltd., was examining the switch on the ground floor of the lift shaft…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Baby Drowned. The Father's Discovery
While searching for his two years old daughter, Marcella Lilian, who had been missing from her home for more than an hour on Saturday, Mr. Boyden,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drowning Fatalities Moreton Bay Tragedy a Harrowing Experience
A tragic drowning fatality occurred at Brible Island Moreton Buy, early on Sunday morning. Captain Laidley, master of the coastal…
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