Electrician Drowned Melbourne
While endeavoring to free a fishing line at the Freezing Works wharf. North Shore, last night, William Albert Nissen, an electrician, 39, of…
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Turf Notes. Jockey Injured
The jockey, J. Bradley, of Grafton and Brisbane, was riding a maiden performer from C. McGrath's stable on the Grafton track when the horse shied and threw him,…
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Michael Reader was killed and four others injured by the collapse of a temporary lift at a building on which they were working. They were…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Severely Injured in Switch Explosion Melbourne
EXPLODING like a cannon-shot, a switch, carrying 22,000 volts, critically injured Ernest McIntosh, a fitter, of River Street. South Yarra…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →District Court. (Before Judge Thomson and a jury of four.) Motor Collision
A. E. Primrose and Co., Ltd., of Victoria-road, Gladesville, sought to recover from Frederick William Swales, of Holbrow-street and Liverpool-road,, Croydon, £112/10/ for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Kakariki Blamed for Collision Big Writ Follows; Inquest Is Opened Melbourne
THE Marine Court of Inquiry, which investigated the collision between the freighter Kakariki and the cargo vessel Caradale, in Hobson's Bay, to-day found that the Kakariki was solely to blame…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Woman's Body in Harbour. Accidental Death. Murder Charge Dropped
The City Coroner (Mr. Oram), after an inquiry in the Coroner's Court yesterday, found that Grace Maud Eves was accidentally drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Story of Tragedy at Manly Man Is Freed Of Murder Charge "ACCIDENTAL"
FOLLOWING an inquiry yesterday by the Oily Coroner. Mr. Oram John Henry Thomas, 55, a laborer, was discharged on a count of having…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Had Urge to Keep Walking Wharfie's Strange Malady After Accident
UNABLE to walk steadily, confused and bewildered, and with an urge to keep on walking, despite the traffic, a wharf-laborer walked straight into a motor car…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Toll of the Road Four Injured in Collision Three Members of Same Family
FOUR persona were injured in a collision between two cars in Victoria Road, Glebe, yesterday. They were: DAVID HODGKISS…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Woman Lay Injured Attack Theory Raised
FOR two days, Mrs. Sophia Negus, 83, lay unconscious in her home in Belmont-street, Alexandria…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lift Crashes. Man Killed; Six Injured. HOBART
Eight men and a boy were hurled to the ground to-day when the rough lift on which they were descending crashed from near the third story of a building which is in course…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Explosion Shook Town 20 Persons Injured Avignon (France)
MORE than 20 persons are [?] to have been injured in a terrific explosion in a gunsmith's [?] which wrecked several…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Blame in Ship Collision Ship-owner's Writ for £15,000 MELBOURNE
THE Marine Court found today that the Kakariki, which was sunk in Port Phillip Bay on January 29, was solely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Caradale--kakariki Collision Writ Against Union Line Claim By Patrick Co. For £15,000 Master's Default Melbourne
FOLLOWING the finding of the Court of Marine Inquiry to-day, that the collision between the Kakariki and the Caradale in Port Phillip on January 29 was caused by the default of the master of the Kakariki, Captain White, James Patrick and Co.,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Road Accidents. Fewer Fatalities in Britain. Effect of Speed Limit
The Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. Maddocks) said yesterday that he had been advised that the reduction in the number of persons killed on the roads in Great Britain,…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Man Injured by a Tram
When Jack Snowvale, 32, of MacDonald-street, Erskineville, was admitted to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in a serious condition with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stop Press Injured Woman Dies
Mrs. Sophia Negus, who was found injured in her home in Belmont-street, Alexandria (see page 10) yesterday, died early this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gave Life for Scooter Boy Drowned In Storm Waters
PATHETIC and vivid was the account given by a small boy at the City Coroner's Court last week when he told of the drowning of his…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →"Exceedingly Callous Act" Coroner's Remarks in Drowning Case Laborer Tells How Woman Fell From Boat
THE City Coroner's stern condemnation of what his Worship termed "an exceedingly callous act hardly to be credited" fell upon the drooped shoulders of Henry John Thomas,…
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