Injured in Car Collision
As he was driving from Manly to the city on Saturday afternoon a motor car driven by Alfred Wade, 32, of Renwick Street, Redfern, came into collision with two other cars in…
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Girl Drowned
Irene Lake aged 9 years, of Harrow Road, Glenfield fell into George's River, near Glenfield, yesterday afternoon, and was drowned. The girl was a member of a picnic party…
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When his bicycle ran into a hole in Matcham Road. Matcham, yesterday afternoon, Wilbur Alston. 22, of 20 Souter Street, Kogarah, had a leg broken below the…
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Two motor cars and a light delivery van were involved in a collision near the Spit Bridge on Saturday afternoon. The driver of the delivery van was injured. The photographs show the damaged cars, one of which left the roadway…
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NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--Mrs. Ada Clarke, 51, of Railway Street, Cooks Hill, was seriously injured by a tram in Darby Street, near Laman Street,…
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Struck on the head by another swimmer who dived into the Olympic Pool, North Sydney, yesterday, Thomas Lambert, about 41, of Whiting Street, Artarmon, was…
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Mrs. Mory Turner, 70, widow, of Fishermen's Bend, was drowned in the week-end in only six inches of water. Her body was found this morning lying face…
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Exhorted by a brokenhearted mother, a young woman and ambulance officers worked vainly for…
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Constable F. Maisey, of the Police Safety Bureau patrol, was injured last night when his motor cycle and sidecar came into collision with a utility truck…
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WHEN a Chinese ran amok with a meat chopper in the Chinese quarter of Little Bourke Street early…
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BROKEN HILL, Sunday.--The Body of Harold Blanks, 26, single, was recovered from a creek on Blanks' station late today. Search for Blanks…
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Two members of the crew of a Freshwater Life Saving club surf-boat were injured at Harbord yesterday, when their boat overturned in three feet of water and was dumped on…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cricketer Fatally Injured. Struck by Ball. BRISBANE
When struck over the heart by a cricket ball at Brigalow to-day, Hubert Barnett McMahon. 27, dairy farmer, of Helenslea, collapsed, and died in a few minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire at Sub-station. Surry Hills Outbreak. Electrician Injured
Parts of Surry Hills were plunged into darkness early this morning, when fire destroyed the low-voltage switchboard of a County Council sub-station at Pearl Street,…
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A man, who has not yet been identified, was killed when a motor lorry struck him in Windsor Road, Baulkham Hills, early yesterday morning. Parramatta Ambulance took…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Revolver Accidentally Discharged. Watchman Wounded
Henry Sims, 42, of Bourke Street, Redfern, a night-watchman employed by the Education Department at the Sydney Technical College Ultimo, accidentally shot himself on Saturday…
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Improvement slipped when being physicked at his stables on Saturday night and broke his near hind leg. He was destroyed yesterday morning…
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The proprietor of a milk bar in Bexley shows how the wheel of a taxi broke loose and crashed through his window to-day. It narrowly missed two women customers, and smashed bottles and confectionery. The driver got out of this car, uninjured, after it had run off the road (where the boys are standing) and finished up in a tangle of bushes. The accident…
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LONDON, Monday.--Swept along by the raging flood waters of the River Severn, three barges smashed into a railway bridge [?]ging the loss of six lives…
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