Ship Capsizes. Many Persons Drowned or Missing. TOKYO, Jan. 3
[?]even persons were drowned and 16 are missing: including several holidaymakers, as a result of the capsizing of the vessel Midori Matu in high seas…
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Speedway Racing. Four Riders Injured. Gold Cup at Showground
The motor cycle spcedway races at the Showground last night were marred by a series of accidents, in which four riders were injured three of them being taken to Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Boys Man Drowned: Seven in New Year Long Fight to Save Lives
ONE man and two boys were drowned yesterday, making a total of seven drownings in the State over the New Year…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ship's Rocket Explodes. Three Boys Injured. Two in Grave Condition
Three of five boys who were experimenting with a ship's distress rocket were severely injured at East Balmain yesterday, when the rocket,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Road Toll. Many Injured on Holiday. Car and Cycle Collisions
Many persons were injured in road accidents yesterday Four persons were injured last night, when a motor cycle and a motor car collided at the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. John Ness, M.L.A., INJURED. Car Strikes Telegraph Post
Mr. John Ness, M.L.A of Macarthur Parade, Summer Hill, received injuries to the face yesterday when his car skidded on Kingsway Miranda and clashed into a telegraph post…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tragic Explosion Boys Set Rocket Off; Badly Injured Mothers' Search for Children
ROCKETS, one of which exploded and seriously injured three boys at Balmain yesterday, had been taken from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Rescues Fewer on Beaches Elderly Man Swept Out 250 Yards At Bronte Woman Injured
WITH an ideal surf running along the coast life-savers, were called upon to effect only a very small number of rescues…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Year Accidents. New York, Jan. 3
The deaths caused by accidents in the United States during the New Year weekend totalled 271…
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Keith James Phelan, 20, of Steinton-street, Manly, suffered a probable fracture of the spine and concussion, when he dived into the surf at Manly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girl Reported Herself Drowned
BALLINA, Tuesday. -- After a girl had reported the drowning of a companion with whom she had been surfing, police discovered that she had given her…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Head-on Collision. Gosford
A head-on collision between a truck and a sedan car occured at the intersection of Albany and York Streets, Gosford, this afternoon. Joseph Birtwistle, of Peat's Ridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Collision and Robbery of £132
WOY WOY, Tuesday.--Unable to go home at the usual hour to collect the takings because of a collision, a bus proprietor later found that £132 had been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Nurse Drowned. Rescue of Girl Companion. Surf Exhausts Lifesavers. NEWCASTLE
Mabel Wright. 24, a nurse at the Hillcrest private hospital. Merewether, was curried out to sea and drowned while assisting another girl who was in…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Girl Said She Was Drowned Story a Hoax, State Police Ballina
Signing an assumed name, a girl reported to the Ballina police last night, that she had been drowned after entering the surf at Robin's…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Nurse Is Drowned in Surf Rare Courage Shown By Lifesavers NEWCASTLE, Tues
AN heroic but fruitless attempt to save the life of a young single woman who was carried 300 yards out by a strong…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Vain Surf Battle Reached Shore, But Girl Drowned Five Men Try to Save Nurse Newcastle
HEROIC rescue efforts by five Merewether Surf Club men, one of whom was brought ashore unconscious, failed to save May…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Assai Left at the Post "Accidental," Said Stewards
The stewards at Ascot this afternoon inquired into the reason for Assai being left at the post in the Plying Welter Handicap. They…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →DROWNING River Fatality at Castlereagh
HILTON Joseph Thomas (28), of Orange, was accidentally drowned in Nepean River, at Jackson's Lane, on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Injured in Collision. Inverell
Four people are in hospital as the result of a collision between a car and a truck at Rob Roy, on the Inverell-Warialda road. The car was driven by J. Lamrock, of Delungra,…
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