Bolting Horses. Two Drivers Injured
Two men were injured yesterday when horses attached to carts bolted at Bankstown ana Manly Vale. Walter Spence, 53, breadcarter, of Panorama…
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Fatality at River Bridge Death of Constable Sturgiss
AS briefly mentioned in the second edition of last issue, Constable Harold William Sturgiss (36), of Penrith Police Force, died…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods in South Africa. Fifteen People Drowned. DURBAN, Feb. 8
Fifteen people have been drowned and thousands are homeless in Natal and the Transvaal as a result of heavy floods. Bridges and roads have been wrecked, and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mail Train Derailed. None Injured. Line Obstructed. Passengers Hurled From Seals. GOSFORD
Many passengers were hurled from their seats when the locomotive, one carriage, and the luggage anti mail vans of the north-west mail were…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Accident at Kingswood
On Tuesday of last week Mr Fred Thorpe (28), storejnan, of 4 Ilala Flats. Kensington, sustaioed abrasions to both legs and shock when driving a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclist's Accident
On Tuesday, about 7.5 a.m. Fred Dunn (17), son of Mr and Mrs D. Dunn, of Marsden Road, was riding his push bike down Marsden Road to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Accident at Moree. Car Driver Acquitted. MOREE
After a brief retirement, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the case at the Moree Quarter Sessions to-day, in which Tom Cross was charged with feloniously slaying…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Accident Victim Dies. Was Unconscious 38 Days
An operation performed at St. Vincent's Hospital in the hope of saving the life of Jack Dyke, 30, of Glasgow Avenue, Bondi after he had been unconscious for 38 days was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Man's Death After Accident. Launch Disaster Recalled
Mr. Woolfe Kaienstein, 32, one of the two survivois of the launch disaster in which 11 persons were drowned in the Hawkesbury River two years ago, died in Newcastle Hospital on…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Failure to Report Accident. Orange
At the Orange Police Court, before Mr. R Donaldson, P.M., Percival Frost was lined £2 for not reporting an accident which occurred near Bowenfels, and in which George Richard…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Warning to Cyclists. Prevention of Accidents
The cyclist who takes a risk on the roads endangers his own life far more than that of any other road user, states the Road Safety Council…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Youth Accidentally Shot Himself, Relatives Think Distressed at Having to Leave District Was Carrying Rifle With Hairtrigger Catch
Relatives of Leslie George Scorgie, 17, found dying on the roadside near Kurrajong on Tuesday night, scout the idea that he deliberately shot himself…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Repent Destroyed After Accident
Repent, a three-year-old, who was purchased for 300 guineas at Alan Cooper's sale last July, broke a foreleg during the weekend and had to be…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Motor Cycle Accident
Mr. Harold Everingham, of Liverpool, and Miss Marjorie Turner, of Ingleburn, were riding on a motor cycle from Cecil Park on Saturday night, when a mishap…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train in Smash One Dead 3 HURT Collision At Station BRISBANE
One man was killed, two seriously injured, one slightly injured, and many suffered severe shock, in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accident Policies
"Farmer": I am insured under the following policies: Accident policy on death, £500; motor car policy on death, £1000; life policy, on death £500. In…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Two Injured in Collision
A man and a boy were seriously injured to-day, when the bicycles they were riding came into collision in Haldon-street, Lakemba…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mail Train Collision. One Killed: Three Injured. Carriages Telescoped. BRISBANE
One man was killed and three others frere injured, two seriously, when the Toowoomba-Brisbane mail train collided with a shunting engine…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Orama in Collision London
On the eve of her departure to Australia, the Orama was struck by a tug at Tilbury Docks and her bows were damaged above the water line…
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