Motor Cyclist Injured Collision with Car Katoomba
Frank Wilson was driving a party of ten from Mount Wilson to Katoomba on Monday. at about 5 p.m. when a collision occurred with a motor…
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Early Morning Collision Young Man and Girl Injured
A motor bike struck a cow on the Main Western Road, Mount Druitt, early this morning, and a young man and a girl was seriously injured…
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White swimming in Murrumbidgee River, near Junee, yesterday, Arthur Whitchead, a member of a picnic party, got into difficultly. He was…
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Yesterday Arthur Whitehead was picnicking with a party near Wantabadgery, and after swimming in the Murrumbidgee River for some time, got into difficulties. His father…
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Mr. Stanley James Shaw, 20, a visitor from Paddington, was drowned in the river at Morpeth. Shaw was swimming with a companion when…
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Edna Bowen, aged 11 years, had a narrow escape from drowning in Warrell Creek on Sunday afternoon. She suddenly got out of her depth. She called to her sister, Alma,…
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George Weir (70), of Tracey Street, Hurstville, was knocked down by a tram at the corner of Bent and Phillip Streets, City, at 9 o'clock…
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A large motor van, carrying 17 persons, returning from a picnic, crashed through the gates of a level crossing at Gardner railway station last night and overturned. Nine…
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James McConnell (24), a farm hand, employed at Weda, near Brookton, on the Great Southern Railway, was drowned in a swimming pool. He was a member of a…
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While assisting to unload machinery at Temora railway station, Frederick Brown had a shoulder badly bruised, and an ankle broken. He was removed to Temora Hospital…
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THE condition of Jockey C. Sheldon, who was taken to hospital after a fall in the Steeplechaes at Flemington, on Monday, is still serious. Jockey A…
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Patricia Hynes, aged 6 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Hynes, of Colac, was knocked down by a motor car in Murray-street, Colac, this morning. The child stepped…
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Stephen Murray, 28, of Albert Street, East Melbourne. a visitor from Tasmania, was drowned in the Yarra at Richmond yesterday afternoon. His…
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William Gardiner, a well-known Jockey, when swimming a racehorse in the river fell off and was drowned. It is thought that the horse threw back his head and hit…
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SIDNEY HARDY, 12, of Ridge-st, Moore Park, who was knocked down by a motor lorry in Dowling-street, Moore Park, yesterday, has improved to-day…
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When George Weir 70 alighting from a tram at the intersection of Rent and Phillip Streets, yesterday, he was knocked down by a tram travelling…
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ARMIDALE, Tuesday. -- A motor car, in which Mr. and Mrs. Harry Purkiss, of Armidale, were travelling on the Armidale-Kempsey road, went over a…
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Though the results of the 1000 miles motor cycle reliability test, conducted by the Motor Cycle Club of N.S.W., over a period of six days last week, will not be available till about the end of this week, It is almost certain that Harry Hodgson will be declared the winner. He was the only one of 30 riders to complete the course with a clean sheet…
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Father Kreymborg, a Roman Catholic priest, aged 60, of Rotorua, was killed, and Dean Vandyk, superior of the Maori Mission, was severely injured by the overturning of a motor…
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A serious accident occurred at th[?] Wagga Showground Speedway yesterday. In the scratch race, H. Liebeck (Harden), when leaving the back stretch, swung out off the hard…
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