Peculiar Accident
Harry Busy, 4, of Orange Grove Road, Liverpool, is in Auburn District with a fractured right thigh, received when a bed mattress fell on him…
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Man's Body Found in Harbour. Death by Drowning
A post-mortem examination has shown that Thomas Raymond McGrory. 39, whose body was found in Rozelle Bay, had died from drowning…
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A post-mortem examination yesterday disclosed that Thomas McGrorey, 40, whose body was found in Rozelle Bay on Wednesday, died from drowning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tried to Save Child Mother Was Also Injured
In a vain endeavor to save her two-year-old daughter from Injury, Mrs. Elsie Herring, 25, of High Street, North Sydney, was knocked down by a motor lorry…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Accidents in City Last Year Ambulance Figures Show Drop In Some Suburbs
An increased number of accidents was attended by ambulance officers last year. Of 78,343 persons taken to hospital, 26,204 were the victims of accidents…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jockeys Injured Caulfield Crashes Poldean Destroyed After Fall In Rowena Welter MELBOURNE
Two jockeys were, injured in two falls at the Caulfield races to-day and a horse was destroyed…
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Two pedestrians were injured, one seriously, when they were struck by a car at the corner of Parramatta Road and Liverpool Road, Ashfield, late on Saturday night…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- The body of Cyril Steele, 47, Toorak furniture merchant, who was lost in Port Phillip Bay in his £1000 speedboat last Wednesday…
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Henry Joseph McHugh, 64, of Avoca Street, Randwick, who was injured when he fell from a ladder while repairing a house at Randwick on January 19, died yesterday in St…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Injured by Rocket
I Walle watching a fireworks display during the speedway test at the Sports, Ground on Saturday night, Edward Starkey. 27, was struck by a falling rocket…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Child Injured. Lithgow
Boyd Strang, 4, fractured his lett forearm when he jumped from a couch at his home in Inch Street. He was admitted to the Lithgow Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Man Injured by Sky-rocket
Edward Starkey, 27, of Glassop Street, Balmain, was injured on the face when he was struck by part of a sky-rocket at the Sports Ground on Saturday night…
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NEWCASTLE, Sunday. -- When his motor cycle outfit came into collision with a car in Pacific Highway yesterday, near Belmont, Samuel Walkom, 28, tyre…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Youth Drowned. Rescue Efforts in Vain. MELBOURNE
Peter Foreman, aged 19 years, of Fairview Road, East Malvern, was drowned at Point Leo, near Flinders, early this morning, when he was washed from his suriboard in the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Car Plunges Into River Yarra. Passenger Drowned. MELBOURNE
One man was drowned and the driver and another passenger narrowly escaped being trapped when a car plunged into the Yarra at South Wharf at 2 a.m. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Gay Romance Injured During Race. Long Spell Necessary
Owner-trainer J. C. Bendrodt had the misfortune to have his threeyear-old filly, Gay Romance, injured in the Flying Handicap at…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Melbourne Falls. Three Jockeys Injured. Poldean Destroyed. Melbourne
Three jockeys were injured and three horses fell. one being injured fatally. at Caulfield on Saturday. T. Dynon, rider of Bozzago, was the most…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Storms in W.A. South-West Suffers. Baby Drowned in Creek Perth
Continued storms with heavy rain in south-western districts have caused enormous damage, and resulted in the drowning of a baby in a flooded creek…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Disater to Empire Flying-boat. Three People Believed to be Drowned. Cavalier Sinks in Atlantic. Tanker Picks Up Ten Survivors. New York, January 22
Three people are believed to have been drowned when the Empire flying-boat Cavalier, flying between New York and Bermuda, came down in the Atlantic yesterday afternoon, and sank in ten minutes, midway between Now York and Bermuda…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Body in Sea. Speedboat Accident. MELBOURNE
The body of Cyril Augustus Steele, managing director of Steele and Co. Pty., Ltd., furniture warehousemen, was found yesterday afternoon, floating in the sea half a mile off the…
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