Charles Hodder, aged 35, a lorry-driver, in the employ of the Northcote Brick Company, was killed on Saturday afternoon at the works. He was jambed between the lorry and the gatepost. ...
Article : 39 wordsWilliam Trigwell, aged 12 years, was thrown from his horse and killed at Bunbury on Friday, night ...
Article : 23 wordsSir William Lyne has been informed by the Agent-General that 2,000 rifles were shipped for the Government by the steamer Indraghiri, which left London on ...
Article : 123 wordsMr. R. B. Best has been appointed a lieutenant in the Sixth Contingent. In response to a cable from the manager of the Telegraph Department, Melbourne. ...
Article : 81 wordsA mysterious drowning case occurred at Fremantle on Saturday. Soon after mid-night on Friday a fireman on the steamer. New York was awakened by a piercing ...
Article : 267 wordsThe steamer Ouraka, While being taken out of the Victoria Dock on Saturday after-noon, crashed into the eastern abutment. Two plates were forced in and a number of ...
Article : 91 wordsAt an early hour this morning the premises occupied by the Sydney Hat Manufacturing Company, at 49, Ann-street, Surrey Hills, were burnt out. Owing to the ...
Article : 173 wordsThe steamer Tambo, F. Willcock commander, left Hobart for Sydney at 10.5 a.m yesterday, and at 3.30 this morning struck a rock off Schouten Island. The weather ...
Article : 210 wordsA shocking tragedy occurred at Wilberforce, four miles from Windsor, this morning. William Cobcroft, the license of the hotel, was stabbed in the back close to the ...
Article : 113 wordsMr. Mathieson, the Victorian Railway Commissioner, has decided to accept the position of general manager of the Midland Railway in England. He has acquainted ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Court of Marine Enquiry to-day investigated the collision in the harbor between the Manly ferry steamer Brghton and the ketch Dewdrop, and decided that the ...
Article : 79 wordsColonel G. C. Madden, an English visitor, staying at the Port Phillip Club Hotel, met there on Friday a young fellow who described himself as a jockey. He told the ...
Article : 176 wordsSir William Lyne states that the late Queen's Birthday (May 24) will cease to be a public holiday, and that June 3 will be substituted in honor of the Duke of ...
Article : 36 wordsThe body of Patrick Conway was exhumed at Rookwood yesterday to perform an analysis of the stomach for symptoms of poisoning. He died, on the voyage of ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Collie Commission has completed its report on the cost of raising coal at Collie and the question of whether the wages at the present rates are adequate. It is ...
Article : 134 wordsA violent storm swept over Gratton about half-past 8 o'clock this evening, accompanied by wind of tornado force, from the south-west. Considerable destruction ...
Article : 106 wordsThe harbormaster's enquiry into the Tambo incident was recommenced to-day, and evidence was taken this afternoon before the police magistrate and a board of ...
Article : 305 wordsTut Ryan, of Melbourne, met Tim Nolan, of Sydney, in a 20-round glove contest at the Democratic Club to-night. From the start the fight was severe, and from the ...
Article : 68 wordsGeorge Wilson, who was locked up for being drunk yesterday, saw snakes in reauty. He was behaving most eccentrically in Market-street. He sat on the ...
Article : 78 wordsAn inquest was held to-day on the body of William Cobcroft, the victim of the Wilberforce tragedy. From the evidence of one witness it appeared that Cobcroft ...
Article : 171 wordsGreat interest was manifested amongst halbitues of the Criminal Court this morning as to the sentence likely to be imposed upon Alfred Davis, John McLaughlin, and ...
Article : 107 wordsProbate will shortly be sought for in connection with the will of the late Louise Currie, of St. Kilda, widow of the late Mr. John Lang Currie. Amongst the legacies are ...
Article : 285 wordsA sample of retiuite, a fossil gum, or resin, has been obtained at a depth of 200 ft. from a bore in the Balranald district. The contractor obtained from about ...
Article : 42 wordsJames Sukey, found unconscious in Newtown on Friday morning, his head being very much battered, [?]ed in the Prince Alfred Hospital last evening. The deceased ...
Article : 44 wordsThere has been a recrudescence of the bubonic plague in Queens and A case has been discovered at Pinkenba, at the mouth of the Brisbane River. The ...
Article : 128 wordsA woman named Smith was arrested to-night on suspicion of being concerned in the death of Patrick Conway, who died suddenly on a voyage from Wellingnon. ...
Article : 62 wordsNews has been received from Wynd-hain from a person who has just returned from the scene of the tragedy at Denham station. It would ...
Article : 454 wordsLate last night a Pyrmont electric car ran down William Bingham, an engineer. Both legs were fractured, and his body injured. He died shortly after admission to ...
Article : 45 wordsEarly on Saturday morning Michael Connelley, aged 47, was admitted the Sydney Hospital suffering from a terrible gash at the back of the head and a fractured skull. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Government have selected Surgeon-Major Bums, of Dunedin (formerly of the First Contingent), to go to Cape Town as principal medical officer of the New ...
Article : 85 wordsA boy, Reginald Walter Hall, aged 15, was accidentally shot by a companion, at Purnamoota yesterday while out rabbiting. He died shortly after reaching Broken Hill ...
Article : 89 wordsOwing to the continued illness of the Lieutenant-Governor, the Executive Council meeting, which to-day was to consider the capital sentence passed on Edwin Nash ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. Robert Booth, solicitor, of Dubbo, hailed a cabman in King-street yesterday morning, and requested to be driven round the Domain. When passing ...
Article : 186 wordsAbout one acre of Country in the vicinity of Lake Rotomchana suddenly burst forth to-day with a great noise and an immense volume of steam, and threw a big column ...
Article : 162 wordsThe suicide, of a young woman, Esther Cock, was reported to the Geelong police to-day. Deceased lived with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Lowndes ...
Article : 100 wordsA serious accident happened to-day to a miner, Alfred Bundle, aged 36, working at the open cut, Proprietary mine. Rundle and a mate were engaged with hammer and ...
Article : 221 wordsOne of the handsomest and most attractive establishments in Rund's-street is that of Messrs. Stevenson Bros., the well-known Watchmakers and Jewellers, who have ...
Article : 196 wordsAn outrage at a particularly daring character was committed shortly before noon to-day in one of the busiest parts of the city. About 11 o' clock a well to do Chinese ...
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The Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), Sat 9 Mar 1901, Page 13
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